Existenxmaximum - Atlas of Shared Living. Vol. III from Venice to Shanghai and back

Therefore, the issue is to improve how we set up where and how we live. The existing
common types of housing, whether it’s the individual apartment cell or suburban
detached house, only frame the life of the individual (or the individual and their
family). There aren’t many systems in place to encourage social mixing.
The new type of housing should answer those questions and provide new, different
ways for culturally and ethnically diverse adults to live together. It has to adress
the questions of isolation and the peoples’ desire for place-making, community,and
interaction that drives the trend to urbanity overall.
When not working, many young professionals would prefer to spend less time at
home, and more time out with friends, exploring the city or seeking experiences.
Thus, why pay in your rent fees for these spaces that you don’t frequently use?
Why to have a living room and a kitchen, when one hardly uses them. The trend
of the last decades to equip the kitchen with all the commercial appliances possible
is a bit comic at a time when so much food is bought prepared requiring minimal
preparation work in the kitchen, etc.
If one accepts to give up some of its own spaces inside of the apartment and
transfer those to the public realm, one agrees to condense its private apartment
to the minimum needed, and with the new trend of intangible assets one really
doesn’t need much, except for spacious room, pleasant to stay in, and some
basic servant spaces, that no one wants to share with others, like bathroom and
storage units for own stuff. Instead one gets a wide range of common amenity
spaces, which turn the living into an experience and allow communal interaction
between the residents in kitchens, gyms, coworking spaces, in-house bars, media
centers and the like. The shared spaces are essential for encouraging casual
social engagement.
For some, although they like the idea of travel, may prefer to stay where many
of their friends or colleagues live. However, the individual should be able to live
locally in the own hometown, while still being able to pursue the experience
driven lifestyle that many prefer. In other markets, business models based on
ownership are quickly being replaced by service models. This should unfold in
housing now as well and may help the cities which are facing the problem of their
local population loss.
Although this causal interaction is good for one’s health, it might be a critical
opportunity for developing business, intellectual or artistic relationships as well.
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