What Is Co-Dividuality?: Post-Individual Architecture, Shared Houses and Other Stories of Openness in Japan - Paperback

by Fabienne Louyot (Author), Salvator-John A. Liotta (Editor)

How architects are designing for communal living in a country enduring the diminishment of private space: Japan

This book explores the concept of "co-dividuality," an architecture that expresses a new response to joint living in the age of post-individualism, social media and the sharing economy. The focus lies on current and contemporary experimentation in Japanese architecture presenting thematic homes with shared spaces designed as a result of warm, simple, fun and contemporary design reflections. In addition to their private room, the co-tenants have large common areas where they can practice urban farming, create a start-up, cook together or experience new spatial ergonomics. The book offers an overview not only on domestic space but also on projects characterized by a multifarious mix between public and private spheres. What Is Co-Dividuality? reflects on how we might want to live tomorrow.