Shared Living
Housing and residential design that prioritizes community, collective spaces, and shared resources among residents.
Shared living explores residential environments designed around communal interaction and collective wellbeing. These projects challenge conventional single-family housing by integrating shared amenities, common areas, and collaborative spaces that foster connection between residents.
The community examines diverse approaches to shared housing, from cooperative models and multi-unit schemes to senior living communities and mixed-use residential developments. Projects range from timber-hybrid cooperatives and vertical villages to adaptive reuse schemes that transform underutilized spaces into warm, inclusive living environments rooted in cultural and neighborhood contexts.
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the house for living: A Courtyard Complex That Treats Shelter, Learning and Belonging as One Plan
Three principles of living, growth and interaction shape a white, courtyard-laced complex where homeless teenagers find a home, skills and each other.
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[To] SHARE: A Movable Balcony System That Treats Facades as Shared Infrastructure
An Uber-for-balconies concept retrofits a Singapore public housing block with a modular exoskeleton of mobile, shareable rooms.
The Street of Life: Elderly Co-Living Organised Around the Social Life of the Moroccan Street
A Runner-up Co-Life entry in Temara, Morocco, uses the street, the riad courtyard and the market as a framework for independent, sociable senior living.
Actual Office Turns South London Shell Spaces into a Warm, Steel-Accented Shared Living Scheme
At Cherry Orchard, a restrained palette of pale timber, white brick, and polished steel gives communal living a sense of quiet permanence.
