How is Affordable Housing Achieved Through Shared Living Lifestyle

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_135How to use a DOI?

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affordable housing; growing house; typology; self-sufficient; home-sharing; collective life; modular spaces

Abstract

Housing is a basic need that remains unfulfilled for the majority around the world. To ensure that everyone has access to high-quality living spaces, architecture and urban development can make a significant contribution to finding new solutions. The chase of equal access to high-quality living space has enabled architects and urban designers to seek new development opportunities for the new era. Yet, the challenge that comes after for this pursuit for affordable housing is the balance between cost and home quality, which is also depended on local cultural preferences.

The purpose of this article is to analyse the housing aggregation of affordable housing and the construction model of people’s living space. As a contemporary research response, there will be a gradual and in-depth discussion on the construction methods of affordable housing and people’s lifestyle from four aspects: 1) to discuss the current challenges and problems the affordable housing should face and solve; 2) to evaluate the application of typology and flexibility in houses to encourage residents to build by themselves and become self-sufficient; 3) to highlight the advantages of shared living lifestyle for affordable housing; 4) to compare the projects of affordable housing in the world and study the different forms of housing aggregation. This article extensively builds on this basis for seeking potential strategies to be incorporated in the design of living space for affordable housing in the future. In addition, to find and create strategies applicable to affordable housing, this article also analyses related cases in their different economic, social, and urban development contexts for comparison.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaofei Wu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - How is Affordable Housing Achieved Through Shared Living Lifestyle
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1060
EP  - 1070
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_135
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_135
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