Also in Friuli is organizing a group to co-housing. To achieve this first step, we suggest six homes have been identified as attractive grounds in the municipality of Fagagna of about 7000 square meters. Apart from the development of individual houses are planning to build a common room, community play areas. Constraints limit the plan covered only 10% surface area providing a large surface area to green. The
Project promoters are looking for partners to complete the group and give life to one of the first experiences of co-housing in Friuli. For information write to
cohousing@architetturaleggera.it
What is the co-housing?
With the English term co-housing means a residential complex comprising of single-family housing, whose residents share common areas, and strive to live in the environment and to build an active social relations between neighbors. It is not the condominium is not the hippy commune but rather reminds the community that characterized the urban areas or villages. Detached suburban housing is an alternative now show all adverse effects, both socially and environmentally, in terms of inefficiency of services and networks that transport costs, communication, service and security. With cohousing, you know you know your neighbors and you can count on a supportive network based on the exchange, reciprocity and generosity.
The co-housing is made up of a group of people who decided to make directly to your home, sharing with other overhead costs, urbanization, planning costs, and green spaces, maintaining direct control over construction. In other words, the inhabitant of the co-housing is responsible and active in the management of the complex. The most economical it is certain that dell'autocostruzione but it requires skills and abilities, but also the construction carried out by enterprises under the direct control of future residents allows significant savings compared to buying the finished house. It is important to consider that taking up the construction of your home can not be compensated in the sense that the hours spent working hours are not lost but won hours, hours paid.
Compared to buying a house "turnkey" co-construction requires commitment and is more economical as many hours you devote to the project. The benefits are to build a house to live according to your needs, to know exactly how their house was built, along with the house to build social cohesion is not easy and not obvious in the era of individualism encouraged.
also change the role of architecture, architect, designer pret-a-porter, which considers the house as an object to dress for sale, we move to a flexible architecture fruit of the relationship between residents and co-designer. Building a team can then take so much more efficient sustainable techniques such as cogeneration of heat and electricity, the use of renewable fuels, the treatment of sewage and rainwater harvesting, construction of large photovoltaic plants size much more profitable for many individual domestic systems.
