Bryan Bowen, an architect at Caddis Collaborative, stands in front of a farmhouse in Wheat Ridge. The parcel is being purchased by Blue Columbine Cohousing, which plans to building 39 housing units. Future residents are developing the community, and they have hired Bowen to design it. (Aldo Svaldi/The Denver Post)
When it comes to cohousing, a development model pioneered in Scandinavia, Colorado is a national leader. And Wheat Ridge is on track to become the latest city in the state to join the club.
“The more you share, the more your life is successful,” said Bryan Bowen, a principal architect with Caddis Collaborative, expressing the sentiment behind cohousing and a new community he is designing called Blue Columbine Cohousing.
Bowen has designed more than 20 cohousing communities in Colorado and other states, drawing on more than 15 years of…
