New Domestic Rentscape. A critical insight into middle-class housing

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Contemporary Rentscapes

Contemporary rentscapes Chapter reporting in a summary form the results of the research: “Contemporary Rentascapes” focusing on transformative strategies for large rental housing stocks. The first part of this project was published in the book “Re-housing, the house as an Integration device”, The second iteration of the project was published in the book “Living beyond Property”. / Capitolo che riporta in forma sintetica i risultati della ricerca “Contemporary Rentascapes” incentrato sulle strategie di trasformazione dei grandi stock abitativi in affitto. La prima parte di questo progetto è stata pubblicata nel libro Re-housing, "La casa come dispositivo di integrazione", mentre la seconda iterazione del progetto è stata pubblicata nel libro (Living beyond Property)

Abitare oltre la proprietà

La città contemporanea presenta nuove e molteplici forme d’abitazione temporanea, alcune delle quali rimangono ancora inesplorate nell’ambito del contesto italiano. L’obiettivo di questa ricerca è quello di fornire una prima investigazione a scala globale sulla più ampia offerta di forme non tradizionali di residenza in affitto. Nuove tipologie d’abitazione che ad una più attenta osservazione consentono di rintracciare differenti modelli generatori. Da un lato l’hotel e la stanza progettata su principi antropometrici, dall’altro lato l’unità abitativa normata dagli standard. Da ciò emerge un più ampio spettro di condizioni spaziali a cavallo tra privacy e dimensione collettiva, che amplificano e mettono in crisi la dicotomia classica tra pubblico e privato

The Co-'s of Co-Living: How the Advertisement of Living Is Taking Over Housing Realities

Co-living penetrated the urban realm both as a housing format and a neologism with fluid meaning. The co-living concept was developed by various companies in the early 2010s claiming to provide a valuable alternative to flat living in highly competitive rental markets. As a real estate product, co-living consists of all-inclusive rental plans of furnished rooms connected to fully equipped communal areas, conceived both for short-term and long-term stays. The few realized buildings combine collective spaces as laundries and co-working spaces with rooms as small as nine square meters. This kind of layout explicitly targets the urban middle-classer willing to live simultaneously together and apart. Differently from other housing formats, co-living is promoted through the jargon of sharing economy more than one of real-estate agencies. The co-root is commonly explained in companies’ recurring website section "What's co-living?" as collective-living, convenient-living, and community-living. The emphasis on communitarian living echoes the semantics of co-housing. However, co-living communities differ radically from co-housing ones, based on a bottom-up initiative of inhabitants subscribing to a contract of cohabitation. In contrast, a co-living community is generated exclusively through economic accessibility. This article gives a critical insight into the mutated meanings of housing in the digital era by analysing co-living companies' narratives and their spatial counterpart in realized buildings. The evidence collected by co-living promotion contributes to addressing a broader shift in real estate towards emphasizing the experiential dimension of lifestyle over space and shelter as primary housing features