Future Urban Living
Micro-living, shared living and co-living are emerging phenomena in housing. Living as a service concepts are challenging the traditional housing patterns. What’s their value to the city?
Feel at Home Anywhere With This Nomadic Furniture
Swiss design studio Panter&Tourron created an ultra-light and tool-free furniture series for global nomads — "allowing one to recreate and rebuild a home anywhere in a few simple steps."
Venn Reinvents Co-Living at the Neighbourhood Level
By managing homes and shared spaces on a neighbourhood scale, Israeli startup Venn hopes to bring community spirit back to urban co-living.
Footbridges Connect Residents in This Micro-Neighbourhood
Architecture office Urban Platform designed a micro-neighbourhood to create a community-centric housing project in a disused lot in central Brussels.
This Furniture Is Bending the Rules of Shared Spaces
Studio Cutwork is redesigning the way we share our spaces with their flexible furniture that is based on an innovative fabrication method.
The First Family-Friendly Co-Housing Project in Cambridge
Marmalade Lane, a co-housing development in Cambridge, UK, is the first community of its type in the city. The new-build house model brings both the commune and urban family living into the 21st century.
The Future of Urban Living May Be Robotic
IKEA and Ori have developed a modular furniture system that can change your living space with the touch a button.
The Urban Village Project: At the Forefront of the Housing Crisis
SPACE10 and EFFEKT Architects have developed The Urban Village Project, whose aim is to aid the current urban housing crisis by building sustainable, affordable and livable homes.
Can Tube Homes Solve Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis?
Using concrete water tubes, architecture firm James Law Cybertecture proposes affordable micro-apartments that make the most of Hong Kong's limited urban space.
MINI Goes Into Co-Living
Car manufacturer MINI has presented its newest chapter in rethinking the concept of urban living with the development of a unique co-living initiative in the Jing’An district in Shanghai.
3D-Printing Manhattan’s Single Households
The one-person household has become the dominant mode of living in the Western world. Artists Zico Schneider and Caitlin Robinson created twelve 3D-printed mini-sculptures documenting single New Yorkers inside their homes.
The Shed Project Turns Vacant Buildings Into Livable Spaces
The Shed Project is a safe, flexible and affordable pop-up housing concept that turns London's vacant buildings into livable spaces.
Creative Compact Living For Marginalized Urbanites
Not only for the creative elite, aesthetic compact living spaces are now increasingly put in place as a means to provide comfort and safety for marginalized urbanites.
