CO-LIVING EXPERIMENTS REVISITED, WITH TWO CASE STUDIES FROM THE NETHERLANDS: ORGANIZATION, COMMUNITY, AND DESIGN DIMENSIONS IN CO-HOUSING

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Besides the shortage of affordable housing, the exclusion of household diversity and disadvantaged groups in mainstream house production necessitates the search for alternative solutions. Based on the criticism of the lack of alternatives in the current housing production in Turkey, this study reconsiders the co-housing model, which aims to overcome the aforementioned problems. To provide historical background, examples ranging from the first utopian ideas and realizations to the Soviet, Scandinavian, and American shared housing experiments are covered. In the research, the concept of co-housing is discussed in terms of organization, community, and design. The organizational dimension concerns the stages of deciding the purpose and schedule of the project for the targeted groups. The community dimension is essential to ensure coherence and sustainability by empowering individuals through interaction and commitment. For the design dimension, the balance of private, common, and transitional spaces is determined through a participatory process, and principles of flexibility and adaptability come to the fore. The primary research, which is carried out with two current cases from the Netherlands, is assessed within these parameters. The first of the case studies is a cooperative housing project organized 'bottom-up' around the principles of ‘commoning’ (Nieuwe Meent), while the other is an implemented ‘flexible living’ concept (Flexwonen) that represents the 'top-down' organizational approach. Both aimed to create an inclusive community and physical environment characterized by sharing, solidarity, and a sense of belonging. This comparative study demonstrates that the co-housing approach, with its potential for affordable and inclusive housing and its ability to take social diversity into account, offers a strong alternative to mainstream housing production in Turkey, which cannot meet the needs of disadvantaged groups including young people, the elderly, and refugees.

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Co-housing, Inclusive Design, Sense of Community, Shared Housing Facility

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S. Kanyar, “CO-LIVING EXPERIMENTS REVISITED, WITH TWO CASE STUDIES FROM THE NETHERLANDS: ORGANIZATION, COMMUNITY, AND DESIGN DIMENSIONS IN CO-HOUSING,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2022.