A PROPOSAL FOR A CO-LIVING COMPLEX DESIGNED FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONAL - Exploring spatial possibilities to promote social interation
Architectural Design, Co-living, Shared accommodation, Design Process.
This work was developed aiming to understand and design a co-living community, which is a new way of shared living, and its spatial possibilities to maximize the potential of integration and socialisation among its inhabitants. The co-living is a sustainable way to live, an offspring of the sharing economy, which has its origin in a Danish movement from the seventies called co-housing whose main objective was to develop a community of collaborative consumption. In order to design a proposal to a collaborative housing for students and young professional in Natal previous knowledge has been built about the theme through bibliographical researches and case studies. From this point on, and with the support from the subjects of this course, the architectural design process was gradually being unfolded and recorded, aspiring a more conscious approach towards each part of the process and not only focused on the final product. Beyond the importance of the records of the design process, this work also intended to study the architectural strategies adopted in order to increase the social potential of the communal areas. Moreover, due to its potential public, mainly young and aware of contemporary issues, sustainable strategies and constructive methods that best suit the profile of this proposal were prioritized.