Word: hanslin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seabury, Mass., a 3,000-acre group of villages along Popponesset Beach, is one of the most expensive second-home communities: $12,000 to $75,000 for a half-acre lot; $40,000 to $150,000 additional for a house. It also is one of best because Developer Emil Hanslin took special pains to preserve the terrain and maintain high aesthetic standards...
...EMIL HANSLIN, 52. One of the most innovative mass home builders. Pioneered in clustering houses in recreational development of New Seabury, on Cape Cod, Mass. (1962). There, also built "special interest" villages for golfers, sailors, horsemen. Also used special groupings in a year-round planned community at Middletown, Conn. Invented idea of saving open land at Eastman, N.H., vacation-home project; each landowner gives a piece of land back to community. Newest project is farthest out: a religiously oriented, back-to-the-land community on 1,300-acre farm in Grantham...
...total of 1,647 house sites of one to five acres were planned, plus 400 clustered units-a high enough density to yield the owners a good return on their investment, but too high to preserve open space and forests. Hanslin got around the problem by grouping his sites in eleven petal-shaped villages that he calls, a bit cutely, "special places." More important, he requires every buyer to deed back to Eastman from 10% to 50% of his land (depending on "what creates the most advantageous site") as permanent open space. In this way, almost 30% of the land...
...Whether Hanslin's ideas will work to create a community remains to be proved, but a staff of enthusiastic young architects and planners are putting in long hours to see that they do. Having organized Eastman, they now are at work in a former warehouse in Manchester, N.H., to design Hanslin's next project, at a still secret location. On a long table stand flats of organically grown bean sprouts. Even more striking are wall charts tracing the development of dozens of bygone religious and idealistic communities, the failures as well as the successes. Each detail of their...
...much esoteric research? Hanslin senses that property buyers now want to control their immediate environment, and he suspects that this "ego approach" will supplant the "hedonism communities" of recent years. Whether this is true is largely speculation, but Hanslin likes to speculate. "There is so much room for improvement in the residential area," says he. "There are so damn many challenges everywhere...