Cohousing - shake before use With the meeting on Saturday 26 / 6 revealed several interesting ideas, I tried to take back and mix them with some personal reflections. The product, shake well before use, I propose below.
The cohousing is defined as a homogeneous social group, coordinated organization of neighborhood. Compared to a town house complex may afford a greater degree of autonomy from the city, having a series of individually managed services, shared among residents. For some of these services, such as auto production of electricity or the car production of fruits, vegetables and poultry, may even be an additional income, however, is not generally lacks the facility Central CHP to generate heat and electricity, collecting laundry, the garden, but you can also think of a car sharing service to reduce the total number of cars and the costs involved, and a baby sitter if the number children so warrants, will be the same people to determine their level of autonomy and self-sufficiency and services they acquire.
Since for many years we have been bombarded by messages that emphasize individualism and possession of property, first home and car as a means of self-assertion, it should be a concerted effort to overcome the individualistic impulses. Through the instrument of participatory design of future residents, led by an architect, define their specific, unique system of cohousing from their individual needs, so that each result will be different from the others. The premise is to build an architecture of habitability, in which the qualitative aspects concerning both the quality of the building constructed and the quality of relationships between those who live, because the construction of social cohesion is as important as the construction of walls. But through the participatory design is to also introduce a degree of flexibility and adaptability so that the house can be transformed over time by agreeing to changing needs. It will be the home to adapt to the needs of the people, not the people to adapt the house reduced to a mass consumer product.
The basic element of each cohousing project is the individual space, which is not the individual boxes, but the need of every person, adult or child, to see a place that recognized are their own and allowing it to establish a relationship of parity and reciprocity with other co-inhabitants. On this basis, individual space is not the same space of the family, the family, as a group of individuals through with contradictions, can not be considered as a whole, like an individual. Individual space is to be regarded as an inalienable right which applies to all and must be guaranteed even to those who have not yet voice to assert itself, as younger children. The difficulty, however, lies in overcoming the identification of their individual space with a portion of space delimited and impassable, the balance between private and collective, between individual and common is something that should be able to change over time due to constantly open and without bias ... and tiring. Nothing can be discounted in cohabitation, it is certainly easier to forget about the world outside of their home burrow and pushed individualism.
's rules seek a balance between individuality and autonomy of the individual on the one hand and participation and group cohesion on the other. The construction of a community Organic is based on collaboration, there is only delegated accountability, in other words the problems of construction of cohousing, construction of walls and the community, must be alive and experience of the participants. The cohousing
never reaches a final equilibrium perfect, think in terms of a final goal has already accepted the death, the construction of the community precedes and goes beyond the walls of the building and is based on acceptance of the challenge posed by the Other. The dynamics of the group is not planned, the level of sharing of experiences, especially when they touch the personal property, the house, the walls, the garden, cherries shaft must pass through when the word continually. One hundred years of psychoanalysis teach us that nothing is obvious in the family and generations of lawyers may tell of eternal disputes between neighbors or between brothers. If you want the plan to close hard living there is only one way to settle disputes the use of the word.
The issue of ownership of cohousing is another central point. The cooperative construction can be expected, the dissolution of the cooperative once the home and the subdivision of garden apartments, among the participants, which then become part owners of their house, exactly identified. More interesting, however, is the overcoming the identification of properties with their own piece of the home owners a share of cohousing corresponding to the amount of space occupied. The cohousing becomes a company or a cooperative, all of whom are participants and owners of public spaces is that the walls in their entirety. There are controllers and controlled, but each participant is concerned for the proper functioning of the complex and its inviolability. The cohousing
be seen as a homogeneous social group, neighborhood organization coordinated through the district and the city, and down with these different levels of organization and interaction. For example, in the historic cities of the organization neighborhood, centered on the street or the court, without excluding outsiders assume threatening forms of the walls and fences. For many centuries it has been possible to control access to areas without cameras and signs threatening. The transition from public to semi-public or collective, in private, until the individual space is subjected to a form of neighborhood control, recognition of the stranger, which is not excluded a priori but even vacated to move into areas or collective in private spaces. The boundary of cohousing
be thought of as a container of domestic social life and not as a limitation with respect to an outside enemy that wants to take away. The foreigner is first of all host but its presence and behavior follows the rules of hospitality that the community wanted to be.
Andrea
