A Shared Sense of Belonging: the politics of defining in sustainable community housing typologies

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A Shared Sense of Belonging the politics of
defining in sustainable community housing
typologies

• Sasha Maher, Jacqueline McIntosh

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Origins of research

• Design request for a shared element in two joined
  houses
• Sustainable motivations
• Seeking to reduce the amount of individually
  owned space, environmentally conscious
• Seeking social benefits of closer proximity for
  selves and immediate family
• Seeking to achieve economies

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Our objectives are to

• Define this new housing type
• Position it within the literature
• Explore the connection to sustainability
• Obtain an understanding of any issues relating to
  the New Zealand context
• Identify some of the theories that might underpin
  and inform design

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Finding and defining conjoined housing

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  LocationUnited States

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Types of conjoined twins depicted by French
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Chicago Press, Chicago, 1982.
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sustainable community housing typologies
Shared housing
Collective housing
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Shared housing

• Rented accommodation
• Usually individuals
• Shared kitchen, living room and sometimes
  bathroom
• Minimal private space
• Economically driven
• Little autonomy
• Examples
• Multi-family dwellings (MFD)
• Single room occupancy (SRO)
• Mingle Units
• Group homes
• Home sharing

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Collective Housing
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• Resident-owned
• Self-contained dwellings or suites
• Shared facilities in a common building or central
  common space, for cooking, dining, social
  activities and childcare depending on the model
• Decision-making is always by way of consensus
• Generous private space
• Usually multiple single families
• Belief in community, utopian roots
• Examples
• Co-housing
• Cooperatives
• Green Housing

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Schindler House
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conjoined housing
Schindler House, 1921
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Conjoined Housing

• Small scale
• Occupant owned
• Designed for non-discrete, non-traditional
  households
• Designed for both common and private space use
• Mainly purpose built, may also be formed from two
  or more detached houses that are joined together
  to create shared space(s).
• No single, stated philosophy in residents
  housing choice

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Introducing Sustainability
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Re-plotting sustainable community housing
typologies
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Adding time to the model
2000s
1960s
1940s
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Some conclusions

• NZ lacks alternatives to the single family house
• Household structures are not static and change
  with society
• Greater diversity in housing types are required
• Different models are not being recognised and
  researched
• Sustainable housing is overly narrow in its
  current definition
• All three components of sustainability need to be
  included in any models of sustainable housing