Study On Co-housing Concept And Its Strategy In Community Design

As a result of social loneliness, resources depletion, and environmental pollution, co-housing movement was initiated in 1960's as a new kind of solution. Through building private dwelling group which maximally shares public facilities, co-housing aims to renovate community of multiple social and material advantages. It absorbs the sustainability of society, culture and resources from traditional settlement, while maintaining the characteristics of modern community.The dissertation conducts a wide-scale study covering the subjects of architecture, urban design, ecology, economics and society, which is freed from the limitation of design theory. The dissertation fills the blank of co-housing study from the professional approach of architecture. Comparing with the co-housing of different periods and different regions, studying their experiences are helpful to provide theoretical instruction for both sustainable community and new socialism village construction in China.On the base of reviewing the developments of sustainable urban design, the dissertation provides both theoretical and technological supports for co-housing study. It discusses the basic guides of co-housing, while studying both the common and different features during its development. The practice characteristics of different kind of co-housing are illustrated. Finally the analysis from social, economics and culture aspects are integrate with information technology's condition in order to discuss the co-housing's influence on future community design and forecast the its developing possibilities in China.