URBAN CO-LIVING
Co-Living as a strategy for urban regeneration
[by Matteo Baggiarini, Sara Stefania Barone, 2019]

The research investigates a new housing model that has been developing for the last ten years: Co-living. Co-living stands for communal living: “a house where two or more people are living together can be considered as a Co-living”. It does not have an absolute definition; since being in a phase of development, it has still not reached a proper architectural identification. Nevertheless, it has been possible to find, analysing the different existing Co-living buildings, some common features. These characteristics have helped to define what Co-living is today: it can be considered a commercial product, organised by minimum private spaces and many communal spaces located inside one unique independent building. It works as a “closed bubble” inside the city, giving only to its tenants all the comforts they might need. For this reason, it has been asked how this housing model can work as a strategy for the urban regeneration, spreading all the communal services along a neighbourhood, keeping it opened to both the inhabitants of the district and the tenants of the Co-living building. In order to develop this strategy, it has been chosen an area in Milan close to Naviglio Grande, Via Tortona and Via Savona and the area of the Darsena: Via Giacomo Watt. The aim of the project is to understand how these open private spaces could be used for the public collectivity, creating a new network of services, having co-living as the main centre.

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