What Is Co-Housing? Developing a Conceptual Framework from the Studies of Danish Intergenerational Co-Housing. Issue 1 (1st January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beck, Anna Falkenstjerne
• Is Part Of: Housing, theory and society. Volume 37:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 40
• Page End: 64
• Publication Date: 2020-01-01
• Subjects: Concept of co-housing -- spatiality -- visions -- organisation -- communality -- design; Housing -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; Housing -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Housing policy -- Periodicals; 363.51
• DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2019.1633398
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1403-6096

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Co-housing forms part of a collaborative housing trend receiving increased interest. The physical layout of co-housing ( bofællesskab in Danish) comprise several independent homes in combination with shared spaces and facilities, which support living together, balancing privacy and communality. In Denmark, self-organised groups have established co-housing ever since the early 1970s in different forms and types. Due to the complexity of how these communities have been arranged over time, co-housing includes great variety, which can be challenging when exploring the concept. The paper proposes an empirical and conceptual approach to the emerging literature on intergenerational co-housing, by developing a multi-dimensional spatial framework combined with an investigation of the different designing types of co-housing. By presenting an analysis of Danish intergenerational co-housing, the paper fills an empirical and conceptual gap in the existing co-housing literature, which usually makes references to Danish experiences or analyses some single cases, but rarely explore these more systematically.