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Fifth State Croydon Coliving Strategy

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Fifth State Croydon Coliving Strategy

A propositional study exploring new principles for well-being in shared living – setting out to influence how we design and build our homes, from a policy level through to design and specification of communal spaces.

Client
Fifth State
Location
Size
1500 m2
Project dates
Strategy: May 2020 – May 2021
Services provided
Research, Strategy & Brief Development (RIBA St 0)
Design team

  • Squire & Partners (Architect)

  • Dp9 (Planning Consultant)

Project type
Feasibility & StrategyPublication & Research
Use type
Residential

Studio Weave were commissioned to build on our first study into shared living ‘Living Closer’, which found that our expectations of home are shifting alongside wider social, cultural and economic changes. This further study explores how many of the benefits of shared living are converging with lifestyle aspirations of some tenants, for example: the opportunity to join an existing community or support network, or to cultivate a new one altogether.

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The study recognises two main types of shared living tenant: ‘founders’ and ‘nomads’, and explores how their different characteristics relate to needs for wellbeing. And ultimately, the study proposes a number of practical principles for the cultivation of a ‘sense of home’ which can be both communal and individual.

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