Sharing Is Saving? Building Costs Simulation of Collaborative and Mainstream Housing Designs

Building costs play a significant role in determining the affordability of a housing project, and these depend to a large extent on design choices. This paper is based on the premise that collaborative design processes, or co-design, used in collaborative housing (CH) in Europe reduce building costs and consequently increase the affordability of...

Nederland op een kantelpunt: Darinka Czischke over de vrijheid om te kiezen hoe je wilt wonen

De laatste jaren zijn een aantal veranderingen gaande, de klimaatcrisis heeft tal van transities in beweging gezet, de wooncrisis verdiept zich verder, demografische veranderingen zijn volop aan de gang en het narratief onder betrokkenen die zich met woningen bezighouden is grondig veranderd. Een luidruchtige paradigmaverschuiving die met horten...

Nederland kantelpunt: Darinka Czischke about the freedom to choose your way of living in collaborative housing

There have been a number of changes going on in recent years, the housing crisis is deepening, demographic changes are underway and the narrative among urban planners and public housing providers has changed. <br/>For a number of years there has been a housing crisis in the housing market in the Netherlands. The reasons for this are different....

Integration through Collaborative Housing?: Dutch Starters and Refugees Forming Self-Managing Communities in Amsterdam

Since 2015, Europe has experienced an unprecedented influx of people fleeing countries facing political turmoil. Upon receiving asylum status, refugees in the Netherlands are currently regionally dispersed and individually housed in public housing. The municipality of Amsterdam has recently adopted an alternative approach, whereby young adult...