Abstract
Today there is a new wave of co-housing internationally. Co-housing is here understood as collaborative housing, based on collaboration between residents on cooking and house maintenance, a new phenomenon since the 1980s. Sweden has a tradition since early modernism of kollektivhus, collective houses, in multi-family dwellings with employed staff managing household work. In Sweden today there are only some 40 true kollektivhus or co-housing projects, while ordinary Swedish postwar multi-family dwellings have common facilities that potentially would make them co-housing. Co-housing is often seen as a sustainable house form, but a problem is that they mainly reach middle-class residents.
Keywords
Modern Movement,
Modern architecture,
Modern housing,
Post-war housing,
Welfare architecture,
Mass housing,
Collective housing,
Swedish modern architecture,
Kollektivhus,
Co-housing,
Hässelby Family Hotel,
Carl-Axel Acking,
Kollektivhuset Trädet,
hsb architects,
Kollektivhuset Stacken,
Lars Ågren.
Issue 65
Year 2021
Pages 92-97
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/65.A.78U9KN9V