- New alliances
Our proposal intends to raise awareness of the relationship between architecture and solitude and the potential of private and semi-private spaces for community life to happen.
An important number of people, especially seniors, are suffering from solitude in places as crowded as cities. Loneliness, social isolation, or living alone are risk factors for premature death as great or greater than obesity and air pollution. Although there is a rise of social projects (i.e. cohousing), what happens with existing buildings where community life has been absent, or where existing common spaces are obsolete (i.e. social state buildings)?
Started as a survey asking about the meaning of sharing domestic spaces with neighbors or the possibilities of transforming the areas of buildings into new social spaces. We aim to explore future spatial solutions that facilitate building a community through individualism understood as an engine to reinvent neighbor’s ties.
Online survey "Potential spaces", 2020. The first round of the questionnaires was answered by people living in several European countries (CZ, PL, IT, ES, DE, ME, TR, UK, SRB), Canada and Argentina.
Potential neighborly offer board: exploring the desire to help and offer skills within the neighborhood in the times of liquid modernity (Bauman) characterized by instability and fragility of bonds. Image-based on answers from the online survey "Potential spaces", 2020.
Are the building's common spaces really common? Investigating different possibilities of moving some of the daily activities into a common space outside your household. Image-based on answers from the online survey "Potential spaces", 2020
Is it enough to have a minimum of private space in the form of a bedroom and bathroom?
An experimental exploration of spatial individual needs and potentially shared rooms with your neighbors in your private apartment/home. Image-based on answers from the online survey "Potential spaces", 2020
What if you share private spaces with your neighbors? Collecting actual voices about willingness to share private spaces in various countries, taking into account different historical contexts (e.g. different levels of disbelief in community life or degeneration of the concept of the common good, lost in socialism because of the forced sharing economy in communist times). Image-based on the answers from the online survey "Potential spaces", 2020.
