Architecture Now · Story 05 · 12 November 2021
Re-imagining co-living and co-working
An article by Amir and Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini in Architecture Now
Architecture Now · 12 November 2021
Writing in Architecture Now, Amir and Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini presented work from AUT's final-year Architectural Engineering studio, where students designed mixed-use community blocks for a site in central Auckland and were free to interpret co-living and co-working in their own way.
- Role
- Co-author
- Where
- Architecture Now
In the photograph · From the Architecture Now article by Ali and Amirhosein Ghaffarian Hoseini: students at AUT's School of Future Environments and Built Environment Engineering explore how co-living and co-working spaces could look in the future.
- Role
- Co-author
- Location
- Architecture Now
- Studio
- Architecture and Design Development II and Industrial Final Project, Bachelor of Architectural Engineering (Honours)
- Student projects
- Felicia Duque, Josh Laloli, Mathew Lewis
The brief
Writing in Architecture Now, Amir and Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini presented work from AUT's final-year Architectural Engineering studio, where students designed mixed-use community blocks for a site in central Auckland and were free to interpret co-living and co-working in their own way.
Why it matters
With housing affordability, rising rents and remote work reshaping how people live, the article argued that well-designed shared spaces can offer connection and lower costs while keeping private space, and that the pandemic made the balance between communal and personal space more important.
The challenge to designers
The authors urged architects to put user needs and changing lifestyles at the centre of the design process, with flexible, adaptable buildings that can support smart cities.
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