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Bauen und Wohnen in Gemeinschaft / Building and Living in Communities

Ideen, Prozesse, Architektur / Ideas, Processes, Architecture

Edited by: Annette Becker, Laura Kienbaum, AA Projects, Peter Cachola Schmal

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New strategies for living in the future

How and why are more and more people choosing to build and live in communities? What motivates them, and what different forms can this take? What contribution can architecture and building culture make in this context?

This book shows 26 projects from Germany, Europe and further afield that offer answers to these questions and have been realised by collective custom build project initiatives or co-operative housing associations. Using different means and concepts, each of them responds to changing lifestyles and different locations. With the help of innovative planning and building processes, they develop solutions that address the specific needs and wishes of their residents. A central principle is the wish to live within one’s own four walls while being part of a community of neighbours and friends, sharing communal spaces and a sense of social commitment. As such, they present ways of combining modern lifestyles with classical principles.

Additional essays provide in-depth information on selected aspects of community-oriented housing, ranging from the economic benefits for society as a whole to the specifics of land allocation procedures, social aspects and suitable legal forms.

  • Building and living together: examples ranging from Canada, several European countries all the way to Singapore
  • The book accompanying the exhibition at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, which will travel internationally

Copyright year:
2015
Pages:
240
Language:
German, English
24 × 28 cm
300 Coloured Illustrations
 
EPUB
Published: 13 Dec 2018
ISBN: 978-3-0356-0531-0
eBook
Published: 31 Aug 2015
ISBN: 978-3-0356-0523-5
Hardback
Published: 28 Aug 2015
ISBN: 978-3-0356-0564-8
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