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In deciding how they could make themselves as selfsufficient as possible, the four organizers determined that their home had to incorporate solar heating and cooling concepts.
In addition, the house had to include room for a caretaker or nurse they might need as they grew older, a luxury too expensive for a single couple to afford but something well within the financial reach of three.
With at least a general concept of how they would live and where they settled by purchase of 50 acres near Boston, they tackled the actual design phase of their dream.
Sid wrote to architects across the country, looking for information on how other groups had worked out similar arrangements. He found nothing.
Certainly, there were condominiums for the elderly and retirement villages but all on a grand scale compared to the requirements of three couples. "We couldn’t find anyone who'd heard of people doing what we were contemplating.” he recalled.
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