Aging-in-Neighborhood is concieved as a cross-generational form of cohabitation, in which the elderly, singles, families young and old, children, teenagers, and students benefit from each other, exchange ideas, support one-another, and at the same time, live independently. Co-Housing; living together as a community, can offer substantial savings through shared facilities, land, resources, entertainment, maintenance and possible internal activities and services. However, it demands the conventional conception of privacy to be reconsidered: The home flows into the shared areas and into the neighborhood!
Housing cooperatives (Wohnungsbaugesellschaften), the municipal administration and architects are required by the social and economic consequences of the co- Housings balance, to balance and design the thresholds between home, neighborhood, and city. The community-based project “Aging-in- Neighborhood” will promote social thinking and neighborly exchange and ultimately the identification with the living or working environment , which in turn can benefit the entire neighborhood.
