Co-housing

Two homes, one property, and a shared way of living—Kalm Residence located in Linden, Randburg, is a thoughtful take on co-housing, where two families come together to build a sustainable lifestyle. What started as a vision has grown into a home filled with shared experiences and challenges. Paris Brummer Paris Brummer Paris Brummer Paris Brummer Designed with both individuality and connection in mind, Kalm Residence carefully balances private and shared spaces, allowing each family to enjoy their own home while embracing a sense of community. This philosophy extends to the architectural details, where thoughtful design elements create a dialogue between the two houses, reinforcing their unity while celebrating th... More

Unlike earlier generations, seniors today live to a so-called ‘third age’. They have the energy and desire to be active and engage with other people. In fact, studies in Denmark have found that more than 80,000 senior citizens are considering moving into a co-housing community. The vision for the senior co-housing community of the future (in Danish 'Fremtidens Seniorbofællesskab'), located in the new scenic district of Ringkøbing K, is therefore to revisit co-housing communities as a concept, rethink it and adapt it to life as an active senior citizen. Kontraframe Strengthening the interaction between residencesThis vision is brought to life architecturally by maintaining the functions of co-housing communitie... More

Located 20 km to the south of Kyiv, PM Campus embodies a vision of a corporate campus for an IT company built on the principles of a sustainable community. The project restores the idea of cohabitation by introducing a holistic environment that fosters professional and personal growth. Architectural Prescription     Soft zoning combined with hard infrastructure that is hidden underground strengthens  coherence and open nature of the space.  Architectural Prescription     Since the campus is located in the area that was reclaimed from the Dnipro river, the objective was to create a brand new ecosystem based on the surrounding environment. Tabula rasa was implemented as a conceptual approach to re... More

Weave is a Hong Kong-based collaborative living company that creates residential communities for Asia’s millennials, students and young professionals. With their first property located in the heart of Kowloon, this well-designed and convenient living space has stunning facilities for a thriving community of young people to live, experience and be inspired. More

Designers: Polygoon Architectuur with Jouri De Pelecijn Architect Four families, firm friends, had a vision: a collaborative housing project within cycling distance of the city centre, with shared functions and a shared garden but maintaining sufficient privacy. A former police station in Deurne (Antwerp) offered them the space they were looking for. The building was converted into four equal family homes. The designers placed an extra dividing wall that cuts through the original middle bay. Jessy van der Werff Frederik Beyens Thanks to that intervention, the internal arrangement and typical brickwork architecture of the front facade could be preserved. To grant the four dwellings a similar surface area, the outer units received... More

Wohnen ohne Auto (literally “Living without a car”) is a co-housing project, developed in a process of participatory design with a community of future residents. The project features a series of strategies which aim is to minimize the superfluous, to estabilish a collective attitude towards sharing and to encourage in general an environmentally conscious behaviour.The building is located in the former airport area of Munich-Riem and is part of the fourth and last construction phase of its reconversion. Its core point lies in the voluntary renouncement of car ownership by all the inhabitants, which is reflected in a sustainable planning approach.Together with three other new constructions, the project forms a rectangular city block around an... More