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?

Tense

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

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.

Micro-Neighbourhood Brussels

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.

Cutwork

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.

Marmalade Lane

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.