Significance of territoriality in spatial organization of coliving communities

The house-commune is a residential type that was created after the Revolution of 1917 with the intention of modifying the habits of the population and creating a ‘new socialist way of life’ based on collectivization. Along with this model, others coexisted (obschezhitie, transitional housing, supercollectivization) that shared as a common characteristic the existence of spaces intended for collective use, at the cost of reducing individual private space. Currently, terms such as cohousing and coliving have been coined, and the number of cooperative homes in transfer of use has grown. The article aims to show that these neologisms correspond to the phagocytation and appropriation by capitalist economies of those centuries-old Soviet types of minimal housing with shared spaces, currently used as a market product aimed at maximizing profits by reducing the surface area of the home.

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Micro-apartments: Achieving spatial comfort in substandard housing conditions

Alfirević¹,

Simonović-Alfirević²

2022

Arhitektura i urbanizam

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Micro-housing means living in substandard conditions, in housing units that are very small in size. Such apartments usually have only the most basic contents, such as rooms for rest, kitchens and bathrooms, and they do not meet all functionality aspects, because users consciously choose to forego certain living needs in order to live in a certain location or have lower maintenance costs. The research considers characteristic examples of micro-apartments and analyses reference literature, in order to extract design principles from extensive material, through which it is possible to achieve spatial comfort in apartments of minimal dimensions. The aim of the research is to consider and systematize the most important principles that can achieve a higher level of spatial comfort in substandard conditions for micro-housing. The paper examines the view that the lower limit of the range of microhousing is the personal experience of comfort and convenience in the living space, determined by how well it meets the users' physiological needs. According to the results of the research, in order to have minimum spatial comfort in an apartment, it is necessary to have a rest area (bed), with the possibility of using a common space for food preparation and personal hygiene, which lowers the default lower limit of interpreting the term "micro-housing".

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Significance of territoriality in spatial organization of coliving communities

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Perceptions of Transitional Housing: Voices of Residents Living in Subdivided Units in Hong Kong

Perceptions of Transitional Housing: Voices of Residents Living in Subdivided Units in Hong Kong

Coliving: la apropiación capitalista de tipos arquitectónicos soviéticos.

Micro-apartments: Achieving spatial comfort in substandard housing conditions

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