Monday, December 6, 2010

Communal spaces

The concept of communal spaces is the housing type where private spaces and public spaces are designed in harmony with each other.

The distinction between these 2 places needs to be designed carefully in order to make sure the inhabitants still have the privacy they require.

According to the CIAM, creating architecture with communal spaces is creating the centralization of household functions and the conversion of the isolated nuclear household into a modern mechanized operation instead of the small-scale organization of individual households.

Architects who want to create architecture with communal spaces have to be careful that, although sharing is the main idea, this doesn’t mean that residents have to scarify their privacy. Instead, a comfortable balance between the public and the private realms is an important issue in this type of housing.

communal spaces

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