Urbanites have higher requirements for “self-space”, and choosing to live alone or together has once again become a topic of controversy. Living alone is comfortable, but it takes a lot of time to fight against loneliness. Although living together is lively, you still need to compromise on your own personality. Do you have to choose between the two? So can the new living mode Co-living solve the confusion of young people? Let’s find the answer with you today.
With the death of loneliness, women living alone are trapped in the bathroom for 30 hours… After frequent hot searches, more and more young people working in first-tier cities will choose whether to live alone or share the same space. The latter, coupled with the impact of the sharing economy, Co-living has become the first choice for many empty nesters.
If you disassemble Coliving, Co means Collaborative (collaborative), Collective (common) and Communal (public). Co-living refers to a group of like-minded young people renting in the same building. They have their own private living space with each other, but at the same time share public space and facilities with others. And this group of friends who live here will make friends, work and live together in a community-oriented way of life. It is not only a shared rental, but also a social function.
We have often talked before that collective life is bound to weaken the individuality of the self. But it is different now. Co-living shared apartment not only allows young people to have social attributes, but also allows everyone to maintain an independent spiritual world and personal space. Its appearance not only saves the cost of renting a house, but also allows many young people who have just graduated and entered the workplace to find a “shelter” that can relieve loneliness and anxiety.
Today, I will take you to take a look at these co-living apartments hong kong in different shapes.
Today, people have transitioned from a uniform collective era to a pluralistic era, but contemporary urban residential buildings have not yet shown the richness that matches this. Under this circumstance, the New Youth Commune came into being.
New Youth Commune is a mixed youth residential community, located on the edge of Jilin Songhua Lake Resort, bordering on natural villages. The building has four floors divided into 155 rooms and can accommodate 800 people. Architect Wang Shuo, based on years of research on the unique phenomenon of “mixed living” such as hutongs, tube buildings, and urban villages, carefully sorts out spaces according to people’s daily life and neighborhood relationships, and deduces a set of flexible and free public space organization logic. , defining a diverse new “collective dormitory” ecology.
Architects from META-Studio responded to the mixed contemporary reality: on the basis of everyone’s equality and self-sufficiency, through the multiple sharing of space, mutual assistance and cooperation, and active interaction with the surrounding environment.
The design breaks through the general collective living model, and folds the building volume into four to form a whole that is scattered on the outside and continuous on the inside. In the center of each sub-unit is a well-lit and well-ventilated high-rise atrium, intervened by bridges, stairs, and stepped seats to form a continuous, rich and varied public transportation flow like an open street. The streamline connects the atrium and the neighboring spaces on both sides, and the public area is equipped with kitchen, office and party space, so encounters, chats, work, dinners, consumption… Various activities naturally unfold in different spaces.
In this way, in a simple and flexible space, innovations in spatial patterns are combined with daily life scenes. People enter and exit personal, shared and collective areas at all levels, and then encounter each other unexpectedly, and the community grows naturally.
Guangzhou is a first-tier city where a large number of urban villages still exist in the city center. As of 2016, according to incomplete statistics, there are 304 large and small urban villages in Guangzhou, with a total area of 716 square kilometers and a population of nearly 6 million.
The Yuexiu area in the city center, because of its superior location, attracts a large number of young office workers to flock here every year, but the residential buildings they live in are basically matchbox-style buildings built in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of the corridor houses are dilapidated and old, and the living environment needs to be improved urgently. On this basis, the inter-architectural design transformed these old serviced apartment, providing more possibilities for the old urban village area.
The interior of the renovated Wuyang Port Apartment makes full use of the site to create a staggered corridor. The east and west ends of the corridor are connected by two stairs, which meets the functional needs of small-sized houses in the village.
The design retains the original structure of the building as much as possible, and retains the three levels of space from private to public in the original building, which are connected by different types of units on each floor, surrounded by split-level corridors and stairs in front of the rooms, and gathered in the central courtyard. At the entrance, a sightseeing elevator that can easily reach all floors is added.
Friends who live here not only have an independent living space, but also relax in the public space by exercising and watching movies in their spare time. In addition, the terrace on the top floor is also equipped with leisure areas such as viewing and drying to meet everyone’s needs .
Zini Twelve Gates Unbounded Community is located in a large state-owned industrial zone in Guangdong in the 1950s. Its predecessor was a relatively spacious original glueless fiberboard factory. Designers from Fei Architecture transformed this 2-story 6.9-meter-high factory space into 6 sets of houses with different layouts, and named it Unbounded Community.
Its biggest feature is that it completely breaks the functionality defined by the traditional space. For example, you can hold an art exhibition in the living room, read in the bathroom, or work in the garden… Let the current slash youth give full play to their strengths.
As mentioned in the design concept of Fei Architecture, “We have always thought about how to build the bathroom in the garden, the kitchen can see the distant mountains, and read a book under the skylight with a glimpse of the sky…to make every house want After the construction of these places, the appearance of the house is automatically generated. In conjunction with the space, many original artworks have been created for this “unbounded community”, and various participatory activities have been launched to give different definitions to the space, allowing users to continue to explore more possibilities Sex. A house is a community, an art gallery, a theater”.
The Four Branch Courtyard from Beijing is located in the Hutong area next to Baita Temple. Here are the typical images of Beijing’s hutong area: sloping roofs covered with gray bricks, green trees, white pigeons, electric wires in the sky, squeaking bicycles and slow-paced life in hutongs.
Across the road, to the south of the site is the high-density financial street, where modern high-rise office buildings and hotels have covered the hutongs that once existed there in the past two decades. Strong contrasts between modern and ancient, rich and poor, vertical and horizontal constitute a characteristic of contemporary Beijing.
In 2015, promoted by the government of Xicheng District, Beijing, a series of “Baita Temple Regeneration Projects” were launched here, and the corresponding hutongs and courtyard houses began to be slightly updated. The quadrangle is under the “Baita Temple Regeneration Plan”. The quadrangle designed by Trace Architects (TAO) is the beginning of urban renewal in this area. The function is set as a shared serviced apartment, which can be used by four young people working nearby.
The design divides the site into four groups of spaces, each of which contains a room and a small private courtyard, each of which faces a different direction, and finally forms a windmill-like layout together. In this way, the privacy of each room and yard is preserved. Compared with the traditional courtyard house, this project is named after the courtyard house. The change from “combine” to “separate” reveals the transformation of social structure and life pattern in the house.
Traditional courtyard houses first enter the courtyard and then enter the rooms, which means that the courtyard is public and the rooms are private. In the quadrangle, the order is first the room and then the yard, and the yard becomes the most private place. The transformation of the spatial sequence corresponds to the transformation from collective life to individual life. However, what has not changed is that the courtyard is always the core of life, which conforms to the Chinese people’s love for nature in life.
Inside the room, the bed is raised into the mezzanine space, thus allowing the ground space to host the living and washing functions. Skylights facing the sky and full-height glazing facing the courtyard bring natural light into the interior, keeping in touch with nature and creating a peaceful atmosphere.
The intersection of the four groups of spaces in the center is a shared space for cooking and conversation. There is a small translucent window between it and each courtyard. The four small windows have four different traditional styles. The trees in the courtyard will cast vivid shadows on it. Although the yard is small, after the transformation, the relationship between people and nature has become closer.
Damochang Sharingji is located in Xidamochang Hutong, Beijing. This traditional small courtyard was formerly the Ruihua Dye Shop in the Republic of China. The architectural design was completed by Mr. Zhang Yonghe from Very Architects, and the interior renovation was completed by Daguan Architectural Design.
This co-living apartments hong kong consists of three courtyards, the reception area is on the left, the central kitchen is on the right, and the restaurant and bar are further inside. The long and narrow corridor passing through the west side is the guest room area. Based on the original building structure, the whole space is divided into five to six guest rooms. The building itself uses a sloping roof structure, and the room is divided into upper and lower loft structures through high wooden beams.
The first floor is for everyone to work, play and relax, while the second floor is a private rest space. The kitchen area is just facing the old tree in the courtyard. In order to preserve the old tree intact, the plane layout cleverly avoids the location of the old tree, and separates the kitchen from the courtyard with a curved glass curtain wall. After using the glass material, it visually adds a sense of agility to the shared serviced apartment.
With the reform and opening up in the 1980s, many villages were surrounded by modern cities, forming the form of “villages in cities”. The ever-increasing housing prices and living costs have also allowed more and more people to live in economically cheap low-rent housing. Through transformation, DOFFICE Design Office designed Shenzhen’s first talent protection community built from the City Handshake Building.
Shuiwei Village is located in the central area of Shenzhen. It contains a total of 35 farm buildings. Because the lanes between the buildings are as wide as 2.5 to 4 meters, it is known as the “handshake building”. After reconstruction, 7 elevators and steel structure corridors were erected in the partial “One Line Sky” laneway between the Handshake Building. The first floor of each elevator is equipped with an elevator courtyard, which becomes the entrance, because it is an open community, and The commercial streets, ruins of ancient wells, and markets in the village are closely connected.
The air corridors and indoor corridors are connected with each other. The three-dimensional traffic flow system connects all buildings, roof gardens, elevator courtyards and youth homes, forming a network extending in all directions. It also becomes a public space for residents to rest and communicate. A three-dimensional living block.
In the Youth House, an important public space in the community, it is divided into 7 different functions in the form of ring series, including reading room, tea room, multi-functional hall, community kitchen, patio courtyard and gym. In addition, in the roof garden of the apartment, you can also wash clothes, grow vegetables and rest. It really creates communication and interaction between people.