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Foreword by Cees Donkers The Crew

Happy New People by Elena Karkh

Dacha Project. The reuse of wooden frames

Geestenberg First steps Concept A.1 Concept A.2 Concept A.3 Concept B Concept C Concept D

From commune to community. Cross-generaonal project

Foreword by Cees Donkers Research

House Commune Kommunalka Experience ? Locaon Meaning of the school Way of living Why 60plus/30minus community? Translaon Concept A Translaon Concept B

Concepts of the old school building reuse

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The Moscow Design Act in August 2010 was the start of the co-operaon between Russia and Eindhoven in the Netherlands.The modest presentaon of Dutch Design during that exhibi-on caused a chain of new connecons between Russian cies

like Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Petrozav-otsk, Tyumen, Krasnoyarsk, St Petersburg and of course Mos-cow and Eindhoven. The White Tower in Yekaterinburg and theproject YEK2.0 with Russian students became a sort of an iconfor the love from both sides for closer collaboraon, urban re-search and design and exchange of knowledge in workshops,(Skype) lectures and internships in Eindhoven.

During the rst Ural Biennial September 2010, aer a lectureabout the transformaon process in Eindhoven caused by theloss of the Philips making industry during the ninees, stu-dents gave their ideas about transformaon subjects in theirown city in a three days workshop. More Russian cies andUniversies were interested in this way of research-educaon.

Novosibirsk organized a conference with an exhibion aboutstudent work but also the architectural transformaon andre-use of old factories from Philips in Eindhoven and the les-sons taken from that process. In October 2012 the rst Bra-bant Biennial was organized in Eindhoven as part of the DutchDesign Week and the rst group of Russian students came toEindhoven to take part in the preparaon of common resultsand to experience these cultural vibes. The YEK2.0 studies andthe NERU Magazine were published and a great exhibionwas shown in the Catharina Church in the heart of the city.Since then there is a Russian house for students and tutors tolive during internships in a neighborhood called Doornakkerswhere praccal urban studies can be made. The Social HousingCompany WOONBEDRIJF and the City Department are part-ners in this collaboraon and research.

Aer three years of starng up his process more results willbe presented and discussed at the Netherlands-Russia (NERU)Conference 17 and 18th of October 2013 and the NERU Exhi-bion in the White Lady building (Library) in Eindhoven. Thiswill be a prelude or teaser to the Dutch Design Week from18-28th of October.

During the spring and summer of 2013 students and profes-sionals from Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm and Tyumen inRussia and Zurich (Switzerland) studied on two subjects: there-use of wooden window frames from the Geestenberg neigh-borhood for the design of Datchas and the social design projectcalled 60+/30- about the revaluaon of the community think-ing for dierent generaons as a medicine for mutual care.This summer course was made possible by the 2 partners City

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Department and Woonbedrijf and the architect Marc van derLinden (VDLP-architects) for the frame project. These two prac-cal subjects made it possible to get some experience in theDutch way of work and to contribute to creave and nowadays

soluons. Both are about a re-use society in which there is no -or less money to spend, shrinking cies and a new student gen-eraon that is communicang all over the world while workingon creave expectaons of the future. The two projects showsfree thinking in out of the box ideas. The Dachas are meantfor free gardening objects to store but also live in communitygardening areas. Especially in the Geestenberg neighborhoodthey can be used as a soluon for the common green area inthe center of this neighborhood. This area was designed in thesevenes and meant to share several private gardens into onecommunity garden. During the last 40 years it was not usedthis way anymore. By proposing this new use and conneconfrom private to common area the old wooden frames can havea new funcon in revaluaon of the old thoughts. By doing this

it can also be a sign for a new generaon and their evaluaonof the community concepts from the sevenes.

Also the school project is about new concepts for living to-gether. Like in a very small village people will live together inan old and empty school, church or oce and share the carefor each other in dierent generaons. Aer analysis of thenew society in which there seems to be no money anymoreto buy your own house and no jobs to start with aer yourgraduaon these new generaons comes up with very creaveideas to step into a new world. Dierent concepts were madeto solve this problem. One of them is to share an empty build-ing to make a new balance between private and common useof interior space. At the same me the care for each other canbe a factor to acvate this new balance. Young people, starng

up their life with jobs but also with a family and aer a whilelile children can use the capacity of an older generaon to llin their free me to cherish and care for the children. At thesame me the younger people can take care for the older onesfor technical support in a changing internet society or servicein the care for daily living. This idea is worked out for the re-useof the Franciscus school in Doornakkers.

So it is about more social design thinking on a larger and moreabstract scale to share new concepts for social behavior andway of life for a new generaon in a nearby future. It is a veryinteresng theme for dialogue on the 18th of October.

I want to thank all the students and professionals who tookpart in these projects. They really made it possible to showhow internaonal collaboraon can start and contribute to a

mutual learning process and translaon into a beer society.I enjoy this way of work very much and may be the most be-cause of the aspect of human energy that is in it. THNX!

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THECREW

Daria ChetvernyaOccupaon: 4th year student of Architecture at Ural StateAcademy of Architecture and ArtsLocaon: Yekaterinburg, Russia

Elena GokhOccupaon: 6th year student of Architecture and urbanism atSouth Ural State UniversityLocaon: Magadan, Russia

Darya GrigoryevaOccupaon: 6th year student of Landscape architecture andurbanism at South Ural State UniversityLocaon: Chelyabinsk, Russia

Elena KarkhOccupaon: 2nd year Masters student of Financial Economicsat Research University Higher School of

EconomicsLocaon: Moscow-Perm, Russia

Victoria KhokhlovaOccupaon: assistant professor at Tyumen State University ofArchitecture and Civil engineering.Locaon: Tyumen, Russia

Dmitry KovalevOccupaon: graduate student of Architecture at South UralState University, Archstroyproject ArchitectLocaon: Kurgan, Russia

Egor PapulovOccupaon: 6th year student of Landscape architecture and

urbanism at South Ural State UniversityLocaon: Chelyabinsk, Russia

Vladislav PankinOccupaon: graduate student of Design of architecturalenvironment at Tyumen State University ofArchitecture and Civil engineeringLocaon: Tyumen, Russia

Iaroslava NesterenkoOccupaon: 4th year student of Architecture at Ural StateAcademy of Architecture and ArtsLocaon: Yekaterinburg, Russia

Sophie SteinemannOccupaon: 2nd year student of Industrial design atUniversity of Applied Sciences and Arts NorthwesternSwitzerland FHNW

Locaon: Basel, Switzerland

Igor TarnovskyOccupaon: 6th year student of Landscape architecture andurbanism at South Ural State UniversityLocaon: Chelyabinsk, Russia

Emilia SokhoshkoOccupaon: assistant professor at Tyumen State University ofArchitecture and Civil engineering.Locaon: Tyumen, Russia

Anna MedvedevaOccupaon: assistant professor at Tyumen State University of

Architecture and Civil engineering.Locaon: Tyumen, Russia

Pinaeva MariyaOccupaon: 3th year student of Landscape architecture andurbanism at South Ural State UniversityLocaon: Chelyabinsk, Russia

Novikova AnastasiaOccupaon: 3th year student of Landscape architecture andurbanism at South Ural State UniversityLocaon: Chelyabinsk, Russia

Pirogova NataliyaOccupaon: 3th year student of Landscape architecture and

urbanism at South Ural State UniversityLocaon: Chelyabinsk, Russia

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HAPPY NEWPEOPLE

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Inially, I would love to underline that this arcle is not aboutscience, it is only about what I have heard, learned and seen

from people, from regular people like you and me. Duringthe internship in Eindhoven, I realized how interesng it is tocommunicate with right people and to ask the right quesons.Through such communicaons the name of the arcle was in-vented. We went to IQ cafe meeng and started to get involvedwith new people. We were very excited about open opportuni-es and one person menoned that all new people are reallyinspired and passionate. Consequently, it was seled that weinvite only happy new people for parcipaon in further meet-ings. You should see how easy it was to invent, as it did not re-quire any special acons from my side, it was only about beinginvolved. This example brightly illustrates how you can meetinspiring people and start to realize the most important valuesin the society - the drivers of future changes.

Yesterday

The strongest impression that pushed me to learn and ex-plore everything as deep as possible appeared in the veryrst days in Eindhoven. On the way from Dusseldorf airport toEindhoven our coach Cees Donkers was telling me the storiesabout historical aspects of their society and about EindhovenNew Born. The most important part, of course, was Eindhovendevelopment aer the Phillips decision to move to the lowercosts countries, which dramacally changed citys perspec-ves. Firstly, it seems natural that the city understands the limi-taons of industrial economy and is ready to take a new step.However, nobody has asked people about whether they areready to change their regular lifestyle and habits. They are ob-

viously ne with the way they live and do not really care aboutnew development because beer future usually providesonly panic and chaos in the beginning. However, when youmeet the today Eindhoven you can never assume the existenceof unemployment and uncertainty problems. hAer visingHigh Tech campus, you see that it is a perfectly t posndustri-al city and because of that strong impression not always thinkabout the background. Denitely, this soluon resolving un-employment problems compels you to discover its basics andmethods. This place tells you that there is much more to learnand experience in Eindhoven rather than just vising futuriscplaces. It is oen in life when you think that someones life isperfect but you never know about the price paid for reachingthat success. The main point is that the Dutch meet very strongchallenge. According to historical examples, we know that the

greater challenge you get the greater results you can gain outof it. Comparing it to surng, we can say that industrial wave isgone and you are not able to control the power of nature, soyou should accept the challenge, catch another one and surf

on it. That is the only way how you can move faster and sur-vive. This soluon has something deeper insight than a strongeconomical foundaonToday

Lets assume now that you are a student who has just gradu-ated from Technical University of Eindhoven and is ready towork on the most famous Philips site of your city. You are surethat you are employed because you are brilliant. However, oc-casionally this site is moved to the lower cost-countries sup-ported by bad economic situaon and you are not neededanymore. It is obvious that you are in trouble. What are yougoing to do in this situaon? Denitely, if you want to t and

go on with me, you should create something dierent, some-thing brand new. For most people it seems that everything isalready invented and there is nothing to do anymore. How-ever, the most important invenon is peoples mind and it isendless, it hides the whole new industry inside Industry ofThinking. Here the empty factory is not only the place, makingpeople suer; it is a new opportunity to help people. Becausewhen the life gives you lemon you can simply make lemonade.People have discovered a new area and performed the crucialproject at that me: reuse of that factory White Lady. Ithas built a solid foundaon for creave ideas in Eindhoven aswell as become the symbol of historical importance. In spiteof the fact that it was the beginning of the new reuse era, ithelped people to reach the new level of open possibilies. Itis not only reuse of site, it is reuse of mind! Along the me, if

you are smart enough to make value almost out of nowhere,you can also realize that you are not the smartest person inthe world. Here is the most important breakeven point whensociety is well-developed in terms of individuals and is readyto communicate eecvely. The main tools to handle pessimis-c situaon came from necessity: in values of support, shar-ing knowledge and creavity of new generaon. That is whatI called a more conceptual and complicated soluon to prob-lems connected with transive period. Moreover, every devel-oped value is brightly presented in society and supported byexamples. In this atmosphere the group of young designers ismovated to organize the pilot project in the church, which isabout to be demolished, for their studio where they can workand live together. Addionally, it is a signal for talented neigh-bors and other cizens to parcipate or to follow up. Projecng

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this situaon on the very simple dimension we can say thatif you are in the situaon of uncertainty and not sure aboutthe outcome, do you really want to start? On the other hand,when you are surrounded by successful examples and at the

same me feel passion and support, you can go with a owand do not scare to accept risk. It seems that you have invisiblean instrucon that manages your way. There is a number of so-cially important projects in Eindhoven now but for me the topone is Collaboraon O. where all creave people started theirbusiness based on support and uniqueness of physical space.My point is that it is crucial for the reason that it shows youngpeople their strength when they join each other, listen eachother and the most importantly understand each other. Theecient relaons are the greatest strength of the New Genera-on. Comparing to Russia, rstly it seems impossible to imple-ment this philosophy there, but it is not. In spite of the fact thatinstuons cannot be modied and developed in one day, wecan undertake the inial steps in order to create the wave of

new projects. Firstly, it is important to show that iniave goesfrom nave people and to prove that we are ready for changes.Because in this case nobody can argue that it does not t inour culture and economy. If we contribute knowledge and be-come more experienced in this area we will be more valuableand able to start making instrucons for our country. From thispoint, I would say that the project performed by my colleaguesfrom Russia contributes a lot for Eindhoven and for Russia aswell. Firstly, they t in Eindhoven nature by saving the histori-cal objects and supporng the idea of sharing knowledge bycommunity creaon. Moreover, since nobody forced cizen ofEindhoven to reach that philosophy, these new projects will bevery nice supporve instruments for its realizaon. As for us,we can learn, experience and collaborate!

Tomorrow

I do not argue that it is a perfect world when everything is forfree and you can just use it. People around you are ready tohelp but the same you do. When you go to the public organi-zaons (Library and Social Housing) you meet open doors butonly in case if you open yours with new ideas. Such open-mind-ed people inspire you to follow them. It is somewhere in the airand it works. But the queson sll exists whether everyone cansee that and feels? Somemes people need a bit more in orderto discover the opportunies. That is why it is very importantto perform clarifying events and make people involved there.Summing up, we can say that only self-sucient people cancommunicate eciently with each other. Firstly you should dis-cover yourself and be condent with your own in order to be

ready for sharing. People where compelled by circumstancesto perform changes but they were not compelled to choosethe methods. There is a balance between ideals and individu-als.

I would love to underline that this is a social innovaon be-cause your inial goals were modied and it changed thepeople. People became warmer and their new values parallyreplace materialism. Here you are not by your own aer gradu-aon, you should only spend some me for discovering oppor-tunies. Always discover yourself, because every such projectis just another brick in the Falling Walls of Individualisc Be-havior!

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Geestenberg.

Perhaps the best preserved bloemkoolwijk of Netherlands.Think: 70s, system, residenal areas and es. Think: Karregat.

A revoluonary 70s community center, designed by architectFrank Klingeren. Think: together, public and collecve. Tenantsand owner-occupiers. A mixed neighborhood, a lively district,where one of ve houses belongs to an entrepreneur. Think:Living Company, the owner of about half of the homes in thisneighborhood. The special power of the Geestenberg lies inthe combinaon of the strong disncve architecture and thestrong social character of the district. Personal contact alongpower, collecve values. They are becoming more importantagain in the year of 2013. And they harmonize perfectly withthe values and design principles of the sevenes.

The district is part of sustainable maintenance plan for the 269apartments of Woonbedrijf. A maintenance mainly according

to its original architectural idea. The large majority of residentschose to bring back the original colors, the outer edge of thedistrict is the light gray, and in the heart of the district is darkgrey. The color for the frames is also selected collecvely byresidents for o-white. The work began in september of 2013,one house takes a work of few days. Thus, in six stages and ineighteen months all houses will be ready. In addion to newwindows and facades, the houses get a complete new roof anda new venlaon system. Besides this maintenance process,there is equally good energy and sustainability in the socialstructure; residents get involved in the life of their neighbour-hood again: the Expedion Geestenberg.

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Expedion Geestenberg.

To ensure that the enre area remains physically and sociallyaracve to current and future residents, Woonbedrijf with

residents started the Expedion Geestenberg in 2012. A pro-cess for tenants and owner-occupiers to put together theneighborhood development. Dozens of residents divided intofour dierent expedion groups out there. In their own neigh-borhood and along inspiring places in the city.

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Dacha is a tradional country house for Russia. It is normallybuilt of wood with pitched roof. The surrounding area is mostlyused to grow vegetables fruits and plants. Also there is alwaysa spot where people have rest, hangout with friends, make

barbeque.The idea of all concepts is to apply this in Eindhovenconcerning all the possible dierenciesin culture and way oflife. When we did our research the rst thing we thought aboutwas how to organize the whole space of community garden.So we came up with several possible soluons for the wholespace:

1. The tradional soluon.The whole space is divided into individual areas with pavilionson them.

2.The common space.The whole site is given to a community needs and is shared byall residents.

3.The combinaon of previous two.Here the site is divided into private spaces but there is sllshared space in the middle.

During our meends and discussions we have worked out sev-eral possible funcons:

-library-garden-place to cook-seats to meet-place to sleep-storage

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The project goals:

-funconality-siplicity-modularity-interacvity-changeability

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CONCEPT A.1

The Dacha Pavilion.

The goal of this proposal is to give people in the neighbour-hood some space in their garden where they can spend their

free me relaxing in a nature but also protected from weathercondions. The supporng structure is made enrely of re-used window frames. Window openings are lled with dier-ent types of materials to form picturesque composion. Theidea was to form standard modules and make them dierentby customizing each of them. People can use pavillions for dif-ferent purposes depending on their taste and their needs. Allthe pavilions can be connected by addional module made offrames as pergola.

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CONCEPT B

The Greenhouse pavilion

The structure of the pavilion is formed by reused woodenwindow frames with regular greed. The space itself is open

and venlated from two sides and from another two sides itis closed by greenhouses. The idea on one hand was to givepeople a nice greenhouse where they can grow vegetablesand fruits and on another hand to form shade in summer withplants to give people some privacy when they need it. Anothergoal of this project was to save the heat during the winter withdouble glass walls.

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People normally spend a lot of me taking care of their garden.The idea is to use window frame to regularize the site. By put-

ng the frames in dierent combinaons horizontally a persongets wooden paths (space in between the frames) and regular-ized beds for owers and vegetables and also the possibility tostore the yield. As there are window frames of dierent typeswe can combine them in many ways which makes it possible toapply this idea to garden of any shape.

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CONCEPT D

Labyrinth

The idea of labyrinth is to create a common space for a neigh-bourhood using window frames as frames to display some-

thing and also to organize the site by combining labyrinth andthe park. The window openings can be lled up with dierentmaterials in order to make the experience of being inside ofthe labyrinth interesng and excing.

Possible llings for the window openings:

-mirror-pergola-chalkboard-artwork-stencil glass

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At the end of the sixes from the last century a big culturalchange occurred in Europe. Started by new music in the begin-ning of this decade the wish for freedom of thinking becamestronger and was heard in popsongs. During my student me

end of these sixes I experienced the explosion of this changein the cultural revoluon (May 68). Started by students in thebig European cies, this wave of a new way of life and societycame in my Technical University in the city of Eindhoven dur-ing the spring and summer of 70. A huge change in educaonat the fresh started Faculty of Architecture and Urban Designat the TU/e was caused by 2nd and 3rd year students, fromformal lessons into more useful praccal society quesons inproject educaon, done by students themselves. In the societythis change appeared in new music, lms about this freedomof mind and sexual behavior, lots of experiments on dierentelds. The famous key partys for instance led to a lot of di-vorced marriages. In architecture this change was shown in anew neighborhood called Geestenberg. Free forms of indus-

trial housing in boxes with more aenon to the individualexpression and public space. No or less room for cars butmore for bicycles, pedestrians, public space and green areas.A new way of urban life was discovered. This new urban de-sign showed the new rules for society at that me: room forindividual expression. No row houses anymore but accent onindividual exploraon in architecture but also for personal de -velopment for man and woman.

The Fransciscus School in Doornakkers became empty in thesummer of 2013. In the policy of the owner, the City Depart-ment, this school should be demolished and the free site couldbe lled in with new housing project. But the city learned abouther new identy during the last 20 years. The empty PhilipsFactories were re-used and have led to a new awareness about

urban transformaon. More in parcular that re-use of oldarchitecture could keep and maintain the right atmosphere inthe neighborhood. Examples of this new climate were therealready in this part of Eindhoven. For instance the re-use of anold and empty factory called Sece-C gave new impulses tothe neighborhood and its inhabitants. Collaboraon-O is situ-ated within this Sece-C complex and is formed with 10 youngentrepreneurs who take care about each other and formeda real new collaboraon. That is why the empty school wasnamed as a chance for developing and tesng concepts fornew urban life. The City as a laboratory course from the Bra-bant Academy, started already in 2003 as a new impulse fromCity Department and Technical University, formed the base forthis research. The school project was dened together withthe Social Housing Company Woonbedrijf and City Depart-ment and is about new concepts for living together. Like in a

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very small village people will live together in an old and emptyschool, church or oce and share the care for each other in dif-ferent generaons. Aer the analysis by students of the actualnew society in which there seems to be no money anymore

to buy your own house and no jobs to start with aer yourgraduaon these new generaons comes up with very creaveideas to step into a new world. Dierent concepts were madeto solve this problem. One of them is to share an empty build-ing to make a new balance between private and common useof interior space. At the same me the care for each other canbe a factor to acvate this new balance. Young people, starngup their life with jobs but also with a family and aer a whilelile children can use the capacity of an older generaon to llin their free me to cherish and care for the children. At thesame me the younger people can take care for the older onesfor technical support in a changing internet society or servicein the care for daily living. This idea is worked out for the re-useof the Franciscus school in Doornakkers.

The fact that this research is done in a neighborhood that wasknown as an experimental society in the sevenes is no coinci-dence. It leads to the comparing analysis of the social situaonin the sevenes and nowadays. Moreover the internaonal as-pect of the Russian collaboraon makes it even more interest-ing to compare the communes from Europe in the sevenesand the forced communes in the Soviet age with the ideal-isc ideas of living together from this generaon. It seems tome that the actual economic situaon can help in this sensethat young people have to choose clearly for their future. Thecannot copy the way of life of their parents but have to ndnew ways of dealing with the actual situaon with no or few

jobs and no more or too expensive new build housing. A so-cial research can lead to a new urban development and use.

In the pilot the Dreams of this young people were Dared bythem to translate them into Do-acons. The Dream Dare DO(DDD)-project in Yekaterinburg has led to a concrete transla-on that can be worked out tomorrow. The school is empty,there is a small budget from the Social Housing Company tochange the interior to make it t or suitable for a new social ex-periment called 60+/30-. Two generaons, living together un-der one roof and sharing more then only the stairs or hallwayto get to the own private apartment or room. In the workedout oor plan there is only a small room for private use like abedroom and bathroom for each person. The rest of the for-mer classrooms are used for common space like living, library,computer or television room, dining room, kitchen, childrenroom. From commune to community is the theme in whichthis new ideals will be announced and talked about during theNERU-Conference.

So it is about more social design thinking on a larger and moreabstract scale to share new concepts for social behavior andway of life for a new generaon in a nearby future. It is a veryinteresng theme for dialogue on the 18th of October.

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Commune

A commune is an intenonal community of people living to-gether, sharing common interests, properes, possessions, re-

sources, and, in some communes, work and income. For manycommunes, core principles have become as important as thecommunal economy, consensus decision-making, non-hierar-chical structures and ecological living. Andrew Jacobs from TheNew York Times wrote that, contrary to popular misconcep-ons, most communes of the 90s are not free-love refugesfor ower children, but well-ordered, nancially solvent co-operaves where pragmacs, not psychedelics, rule the day.There are many contemporary intenonal communies allover the world, a list of which can be found at the Fellowshipfor Intenonal Community.

Categorizaon of communiesBenjamin Zablocki categorized communies this way:

Alternave-family communiesCooperave communiesCountercultural communiesEgalitarian communiesPolical communiesPsychological communies (based on myscal or gestalt prin-ciples)Rehabilitaonal communies (see Synanon)Religious communiesSpiritual communiesExperimental communies

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Communes around the world

With the simple denion of a commune as an intenonalcommunity with 100% income sharing, the online directory of

the FIC lists 186 communes world wide (17 Aug 2011). Manycultures naturally pracce communal living, and wouldnt des-ignate their way of life as a planned commune per se, thoughtheir living situaon may have many characteriscs of a com-mune.

Core principles of communes

The central characteriscs of communes, or core principlesthat dene communes, have been expressed in various forms

over the years. Before 1840 such communies were knownas communist and socialist selements; by 1860, they werealso called communitarian and by around 1920 the term in-tenonal community had been added to the vernacular ofsome theorists. At the beginning of the 1970s, The New Com-munes author Ron E. Roberts classied communes as a sub-class of a larger category of Utopias. He listed three main char-acteriscs. Communes of this period tended to develop theirown characteriscs of theory though, so while many strived forvariously expressed forms of egalitarianism Roberts list shouldnever be read as typical. Roberts three listed items were: rst,egalitarianism - that communes specically rejected hierarchyor graduaons of social status as being necessary to social or -der. Second, human scale - that members of some communes

considered as the scale of society, as it was then organised asbeing too industrialised (or factory sized) and therefore unsym-pathec to human dimensions. And the third, the consciousan-bureaucracy of the communes. Twenty ve years later, Dr.Bill Metcalf, in his book Shared Visions, Shared Lives denedcommunes with the following core principles: the importanceof the group as opposion to the nuclear family unit; a com-mon purse, a collecve household, group decision making ingeneral and inmate aairs; sharing everyday life and facilies.A commune is an idealised form of family, a new sort of pri-mary group (generally with fewer than 20 people, althoughagain there are outstanding examples of much larger com-munes or communes that experienced episodes with muchlarger populaons). Commune members have emoonalbonds to the whole group rather than to any sub-group, and

the commune is experienced with emoons which go beyondjust social collecvity.

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HOUSE COMMUNE

The word commune (kommuna) became a regular part of theSoviet lexicon right aer the October Revoluon. House Com-mune or Communal Dwelling (dom-kommuna) designated astructure or cluster of them designed for collecve and commu-

nal life. Some of the rst projects for commune-housing werevery ambious (Leonid Vesnins Moscow housing ensemble of1922): a dozen buildings, including club, bath-house, technicalshack, daycare and kindergardens, and residenal buildings,with a large play area between them. It was in fact what wecall a garden court apartment complex, spacious and self-sucient, with common services including a place for social-izing. Other buildings were designed based more on real-lifeexperience. House Commune usually consisted of a long blockof apartments (somemes with a penthouse and roof garden),connected by an enclosed bridge to a block of collecve facili -es. As adversed by the architects, the apartments were toform an intervenon into the everyday life of the inhabitants.By oering Communal facilies such as kitchens, creches and

laundry as part of the block, the tenants were encouraged intoa more socialist and, by taking women out of their tradionalroles, feminist way of life. The structure was thus to act as a so-cial condenser by including within it a library and gymnasium.The Narkomn Building is a block of ats in Moscow, Russia,designed by Moisei Ginzburg with Ignaty Milinis for workers atthe Commissariat of Finance (shortened to Narkomn). It wasan opportunity for architects to try out many of the theoriesadvanced by the Construcvist OSA group in the course of the1920s on architectural form and communal living. The avant-garde community (notably, Ginzburg and Konstann Melnikov)designed such model units, relying on vercal separaon ofbedroom (top level) and combined kitchen and living room(lower level). Ilya Golosov implemented these cells for his Col-lecve House in Ivanovo; Pavel Gofman for communal hous-

ing in Saratov. Apartments were graded by how far along theywere to being fully collecvised, ranging from rooms withtheir own kitchens to apartments purely for sleep and study.Most of the units belong to Cell K type (with double-heightliving room) and Cell F connecng to an outdoor gallery. Themost interesng social issue about commune houses was thatof the kitchen and the family. It is a singular fact that to thisday the individual kitchen is the strongest symbol of a nuclearfamily (as it once was its main meeng place). Classical HouseCommune theory had always made the collecvized kitchenits central tenet: to save costs, promote eang together, andrescue housewives from the slavery of kitchen life.

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House Commune-socialism in one building

-communalizing services,-release women/men from repeve domesc work

-raise naonal labor producvity-promote a spirit of communism-allowing some privacy as well-de-familizaon-separaon of children from parents

V. Kuzmin Problems of the Scienc Organizaon of EverydayLife Kuzmin oered a graph of life not as an enforceableregulaon (man is not an automaton) but as a guide for join-ing architectural design with the daily life in a communal situ-

aon.

10:00 P.M.6:00 A.M.

6:05 A.M.6:15 A.M.6:20 A.M.6:25 A.M.6:28 A.M.6:43 A.M.6:45 A.M.6:50 A.M.7:00 A.M.3:00 P.M.3:10 P.M.3:17 P.M.3:25 P.M.3:55 P.M.3:58 P.M.

4:58 P.M.5:08 P.M.5:10 P.M.5:25 P.M.9:25 P.M.9:50 P.M.10:00 P.M.

Lights out. Eight hours of sleep.Calisthenics 5 min.

Toilet 10 min.Shower (oponal 5 min.)Dress 5 min.To the dining room 3 min.Breakfast 15 min.To the cloakrooms 2 min.Put on outdoor clothing 5 min.To the mine 10 min.Work in the mine 8 hours.To the commune 10 min.Take o outdoor clothing 7 min.Wash 8 min.Dinner 30 min.To the rest room for free hour 3 min.Free me.

Toilet and change 10 min.To the dining room 2 min.Tea 15 min.Cultural development. Gymnascs.Alloted me: four hours.Dining room, supper, eat 25 min.Prepare to rere 10 min.

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KOMMUNALKA

A communal apartment or kommunalka appeared in the So-viet Union following the Russian revoluon. Communal apart-ments emerged as a response to the housing crisis in urbanareas and were a product of the new collecve vision of the

future. A communal apartment was typically shared betweentwo to seven families, and it revoluonary united dierentsocial groups in one physical space. Each family had its ownroom, which served as a living room, dining room, and bed-room for the enre family. The hallways, kitchen, bathroomand telephone were shared among all the residents. The com-munal apartment was the predominant form of housing in theUSSR for generaons, and sll exist in the most fashionablecentral districts of large Russian cies.

Space in communal apartments was divided into commonspaces and private rooms mathemacally or bureaucra-cally, with lile to no aenon paid to the physical space ofthe exisng structures. Residents were meant to share some

rooms, but even these spaces could be divided. For example,each family might have their own kitchen table, gas burner,doorbell, and even light switch, preferring to walk down thehall to use their light switch to turn on the bathroom lightsrather than using a closer switch belonging to another resi-dent. Furthermore, the hallways were oen poorly lit, becauseeach family had control of one of the lights hanging in the cor-ridor, and would only turn it on for their own benet. Thoughcommunal apartments were relavely small, residents had towait at mes to use the bathroom or kitchen sink. The kitchenwas the primary place the residents interacted with one an-other and scheduling shared responsibilies. Wary of the,residents rarely le groceries in the kitchen unless they putlocks on the kitchen cabinets. However, they oen stored theirtoiletries in the kitchen as opposed to the bathroom, because

other residents could more easily use things le unaendedin the bathroom. Laundry was le to dry in both the kitchenand the bathroom. The communal apartment was the only liv-ing accommodaon in the Soviet Union where the residentshad no parcular reason to be living together. Other formsof communal living were based around type of work or othercommonalies, but the communal apartment residents wereplaced together by a governing body. These residents had lilecommitment to communal living or to each other. In spite ofthe haphazard nature of their cohabitaon, residents had tonavigate communal living, which required share responsibili-es and reliance on one another. Spying was especially preva-lent in the communal apartment, because of the extremelyclose quarters people lived in. It was not unusual for a neighborto look or listen into another residents room or the commonroom and to gossip about others. Furthermore, the commu-

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nal apartment was a breeding ground of police informants,people were encouraged to denounce their neighbors, andoen did so to ensure safety for themselves or to gain theirneighbors room for themselves aer they had them evicted

or imprisoned.

In spite of all these challenges, many former residents of com-munal apartments look back fondly on the sense of family theyhad with their neighbors. When asked which she would prefer,one woman who lived her whole life in a communal apartmentin St. Petersburg said: Its beer to live in a communal apart-ment, a large one, in a historic Petersburg district, than in a pri-vate housing complex. In a housing complex theres some kindof disconnecon, life is more boring... Everybody is on theirown. And here were like one big family. If someone is in trou-ble, it gets shared. Or a joy, you share that too... It works outvery well. The Russian poet and Nobel Prize winner JosephBrodsky, who grew up in a communal apartment in Leningrad,

wrote: For all of the despicable aspects of this mode of exist-ence, a communal apartment has its redeeming side as well.It bares life to its basics, it strips o any illusions about humannature.

Valenna Baskina grew up in a large communal apartment inthe center of Moscow, in the 1930s. Her enre family lived,ate and slept in one room. I dont remember that we visit-ed each other or made some communal food. No, each fam-ily lived their own life, but it was very peaceful. Every familyhad children, so children became a communal responsibility.With friend of mine I spent a lot of daymes sing on top ofa large dresser in corridor and playing imaginary games. Mymother worked as a truck driver, so she had to leave me athome by myself. When I got married, my husband moved in

with my family. We shared the room with my older brother,two younger sisters, mother, and grandmother. It was not com-fortable. But nevertheless we lived and enjoyed. And we didntfeel it as a problem, because we couldnt compare it.

Moscow architect Andrei Barbje grew up in a large apartmentthat had belonged to his great-grandfather before the Revo-luon. I remember my parents acvely disliked living in thecommunal apartment, but I didnt mind it when I was young .Everyone in our kommunalka did their best to get along, by fol-lowing an elaborate system of rules. For instance, there was anunspoken order of people who went to wash in the morning,based on what me they had to get to work. The communalkitchen had four stoves, and each family used two burners. Butif someone was having dinner guests, they could always askto borrow one or two burners. No one ate in the kitchen; they

took the food back their room. They also kept refrigerators intheir room. Sll, we all celebrated the holidays together. Therewas a ritual: Wed visit each others rooms, and sit for half anhour or so. It was always customary when you visited to bring a

small gi, so it was all very friendly. And even now, some yearslater, before I do something, I always think about whether thiswill bother someone else. Its about self control, and learningto take responsibility for your acons from a very young age,simply because youre surrounded by so many people.

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EXPERIENCE

Luca Paroni

I live in a small studio with my own bathroom and I share thekitchen with 5 other people. The building where I live is owned

by a company called Vesde that has an agreement with theUniversity, so the fee I pay for the at, located in the city centreand really closed to the University, is not that high. This campusis for PHD, PDeng, PostDoc students or company employees(like me) only.

So, I dont really have roommates but only people who sharethe kitchen with me, somemes we barely see each other butits OK for me. I like to have my privacy. Rooms are well fur-nished, so there have been no need to buy extra stus. The lackof space in the apartment always push me to furnish my roomcarefully. So, I need to think twice, before buying new sofa orchair. When I lived in Milan, I used to share an apartment withmy classmate. In Milan, usually people search for an apartment

by themself, so in this case they have to deal with the ownersof the ats avoiding having an agreement with a company likeVesde. I was lucky to nd the people who agreed to sign an of-cial contract with me, telling that Ive rented the at. Unfortu-nately, it is not that common in Milan, so people end up livingin the ats having so called black contract. In this case peoplehave no guarantee for the period of me they can stay in theat and also the price they need to pay. Politecnico di Milano,University where I study, recently trying to change the situa-on, providing students with the apartments with fare prices.

Maria Chernaya

My experience is related only to those communies that existin some way apart, but inside they were created to become a

counterweight space for aempts to build an alternave life -style. In case of the community, I mean, of course, the punkscene in which prevails the idea of mutual support - at least intheory, although in pracce it is more complicated. This fam -ily, where people help each other and inspire new businesses.You have to do everything on your own, but there are alwayspeople to support you. So the Commune was for me some-thing idealized during my teenagerhood. Later I realized thatthis form of being seemed to me a bit unhealthy, when someme passes and people start to ght because of women or thedistribuon of responsibilies. Im more into modern city com-mune without any ideas -I call this any apartment, where sev-eral people or families live, most of my friends co-exist in thisway. They may be all from the same party or all of them do not

eat meat, but no sectarianism, which I strongly object. I had anunusual experience when I was a child.I lived in an eco-com-mune for a month. It was a huge area, there was one man whowas a manager, and a few women who were in a very unclearrelaonships with him, including his wife, who was totally outof her mind. They were oen visited by lunacs of all kinds- tolearn the wisdom, because these people were trying to build anoosphere, isolated from the wicked world, considered theirland abnormal point. They also restored the ecosystem on theroad, kept a luxurious garden, a vegetable garden and apiary.I was 13 when I lived there,I was on the vacaon but everyday I worked from 8 am -only women worked in the communeand the man wrote the arcle. My father was a friend of thisman, and took me there because there was nature, forest andtwo rivers. It was really cool. Nowadays I miss our urban yard

culture. Im from the province, my home was next to the rail-road. This co-op house in which everyone were united by onething - the camps in the Komi Republic. So, everyone kneweach other. I arranged exhibions and performances with allthe kids at home, we called everyone - it was okay to ring onthe door and call to someone to come. On New Years eve weexchanged with candies. We took out to the yard inatablepool for children and a tape recorder. Right beside we driedlaundry. Grandmother sang songs on the bench, looked aerus. This is almost gone, but a special spirit is sll there. I thinkit may be a commune.

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Quesonnaire

1. How do you understand term community ?2. Can you imagine your living in a commune house?3. How much private space do you need to feel yourself com-fortable - in square meters, furniture etc.4. Are you ready to share some house space with others? Andwhat rooms could it be - kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, work-ing space, etc ? And which rooms should be just your private?5. With whom could you share a house - friends, relaves, oth-

ers? what age? what profession? how many people could youlive with?6. How long could you stay in this house? in which period ofyour live / ll which period of your live?7. What reasons could make you live in a such house ? maybeits cause of real need to share, or if you need somebodys careand aenon, or some nancial situaon, or something else?

LucaR&D Engineer, Eindhoven, Netherlands28Single

I see commune as a place where you live with other peoplesharing common space, tools and where you make decisions

and look for a soluons together about the place you are living.I imagine it like a big house, with a lot of rooms, with a lot ofpeople all busy doing something. I would like to have quite abig place only for myself, even if I live in a common space. Theprivate place, where I can do whatever I want and spend someme all on my own. Im already to live in a place where I sharethe kitchen. I dont know exactly what I would share more. Icould live with 20 30 people in one house (with friends orpeople with a similar background or in general with students).Perhaps I could stay in commune house up to the me I feellike changing my life because of personal reasons. I would liketo live there in reason to save some money and use what I saveto travel when I can.

AlenaArchitect34Married

Commune society which is united by common opinions andinterests. Im not sure whether it is possible to call our home

commune. Four generaons under one roof, where the onlyshared interest upbringing of children and mutual supportof middle and senior generaons. As a private I need mini-mum of 50 m2. Bedroom, kitchen, living room, working space..everything you cant imagine yourself without. I could sharebedroom just with my husband. And I could live together withclosest relaves, in our house there are 8 of them. All of mylife, depending on possibilies and appropriateness. And themain reasons for me are care and mutual help.

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ErikStudent in soware development26In couple

Community : just group of people. Commune : people liv-ing in a parcular area with something in common. Yes , I couldlive in commune house. I need something like 15 mprivatespace with : bed , desk , computer , wardrobe, shower and WC.And I can share all house space and all the rooms except my

working space. Its comfortable for me to share a space with:my family /girlfriend/friends (of all ages), dont care of theirprofession, with maximum of 4 people in the house. if its myfamily (my wife with children) so it is for all my life , if its myfriends/or parents just during my studies. There is no parcu-lar reason which could make me live in a such house , its justlives circumstances , and it s normal for human to live in socialgroups ,its not an obligaon.

SylvieStudent22Single

Community is a group of persons linked for a reason. Yes, I canimagine my living in a commune house. I need 15m2 approxi-

mately for my private space, a desk, bed etc. I could share withothers everything except bedroom. Friends could be as neigh-bors, or strangers but with a selecon. In ages about 25-35.I could live with anybody but not a no acve person. I dontknow for how long, it depending on my future.

RomanDesigner32In couple

Its not really good for me to share a living or working spacewith somebody. It could be quite ok if I was a student, but

for sure just if there were not a lot of roommates. From theother hand, it could be comfortable if every person had a pri-vate room. A necessary minimum of private space is neededbut it all depends on the situaon, for instance, if there arepeople who are involved in similar kind of acvies and sharethe same values it might be enough to have just a standardworking space, but if they are not then its necessary to have aprivate room. I could share a house with people only of my ageor older. I cant stand people younger than me, I know it frommy experience. I wouldnt like to share bedroom and workingspace, the rest is ok. But sll it depends on the situaon andpeople around me.

MikhailHead of eet management36Married, has a 4-year old child

I need to have not less private space then a do now. I meanfamily space should remain the same. Im ready to share morecommon areas with other people. For instance: library or ayard. Of course common interests are important. But actuallyI think Im not a commune type of person. I think commune is

totally not for everyone. Well, maybe for many people but notfor a long me. It might be interesng while you are young andinterested in something. When you are a grown up with a fam-ily and a lot of work private space becomes more importantthan permanent opportunity to communicate with congenialsouls. But maybe in 30 years its very possible - then you needless private space.

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ArtemEngineer at the automazaon technologies instute24Single

Well, since its been in a very long me since Im in a sort ofmusical community, I can say that the most relevant commu-nity in my understanding is an associaon of people with com-mon interests, who develop their ideas, mutually help eachother in this, and so on. Well, they might have totally oppo-

site opinions on something, but in the community were slltalking about the commonality.Commune probably implies acloser relaonship between its parcipants. Accommodaonunder one roof. With common economy roughly speaking )For me, this is not a problem. Especially if it is interesng,people who are nice to me, who we share a lot with. Personalspace: a small room maximum. With a bed. It is desirableto share toilet and bathroom not with a million people, but atleast one for two or three rooms, its based on the harsh reali-es. ) ) This is prey much it. But Im not very representave,I have a distorted percepon of reality, aer seven years in adorm ) Well the commune house is all about the interests butthe interests tend to change. And I see myself in this homes aslong as it keeps me interested. Unll I have no family, no chil-dren. I think when I do it will be too much for everyone: for me

and for the kids and the neighbors)

KarolinaGovernment and municipal management27Divorced

For me commune is a group of people that live together basedon collecve property. And community is a group of peoplethat have similar interests. With geng older a person chang -es his or her views. When I was a student I would love to livein a commune. It could have helped to develop my communi-

caonal and psychological skills. Being able to catch peoplesmoods and deal with them is a very useful skill. Now I have asmall child and for this period I would never agree in circum-stances like this. In a birth house there were just three of usyoung mothers and it was horrible. Too much noise and chil-dren crying. Moreover when there is a small child in a houseyou need to be able to control the level of noise, the penetra-on of side sounds, sanitary norms and so on. It is impossiblein a commune. Maybe when he is a bit elder I would consideran opon of living in a commune, but at a condion that therewill be kids of his age. Its useful for kids because they start tolearn from each other and a child being busy might make hismothers life much easier. And of course you may leave yourchild with another parent to be taken care of. It is kind of akindergarten with big number of nannies. I think it is accept-

able. I would call my private space several things. A bedroomwhere I could also put a working space. (no less than 16 m2 forall). A bathroom which might be not very spacious but private.Maybe a small kitchen 6-8 square meters. Where a person canbe alone for a while. A small oven, small fridge and zone withsofa. The rooms I am ready to share: laundry room; storageroom; well-equipped kitchen for an opportunity to cook dier-ent complicated dishes; living room, well-equipped and readyto receive a certain amount of guests, with good sound sys-tem and a TV. In conclusion Im gonna sum everything up. Suchcommunes might be a good thing if the residents are preciselyselected by certain uning criteria. Such as: temperament,level of emoonality, preferences, horoscope, interests (forinstance a hunter might be not a very good match for animaldefender). To avoid conicts of interests, the main thing is forpeople to be united by similar parameters to lower the level ofdiscomfort. However this kind of living is both nancial benetand a lot of care and support.

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MarieJournalist, writer, graphic designer23Single

This is a very interesng queson because my idea of com-munes and community suddenly brightened for me right aerit - I have not thought about it before. Lets start with the factthat I probably would not have started to live in a commune.But if that happened, I would like to have my personal space,

a room and a chair in a common room. My own locker in thekitchen and in the bathroom. So that I could mourn for a stupidmusic in my own corner if I need. But the other day - to arrangethe whole commune crazy celebraon, because when thereare many people, and you have a space, you can do incrediblethings. I miss our urban yard culture. Im from the province, myhome was next to the railroad. This co-op house in which eve-ryone were united by one thing - the camps in the Komi Repub-lic. So, everyone knew each other. I arranged exhibions andperformances with all the kids at home, we called everyone - itwas okay to ring on the door and call to someone to come. Andin the new year we did exchange of candies. We took out tothe yard inatable pool for children, a tape recorder. Right be-side we dried laundry. Grandmother sang songs on the bench,looked aer us. This is almost gone, but a special spirit is sll

there. I think it may be a commune.

SergeiArst50Divorced

I used to work in a workshop 5m2 for ve years, and it wasenough for me. It would be even ne for the rest of my life ifthere also be some room of 5m2 for relax. Now I am living in90m2 and I cant cope with this space properly, it tends to be-come messy. Although from me to me, when there is some

big project spacious house comes in handy. Even pre-raphael-ites were dreaming of their own home-commune for arsts,but only for themselves by the way. Generally speaking it ishard to live in a commune, as well as in communal at ordormitory as I used to live. Living in a commune means that allits members live as a family with some special rules, and youeither follow them or you are out. For me commune is like abeehive. But if you look at them paently you would see dif-ference between them and us. Bees are all equal more or less,they live for one purpose, whereas people would be tear apartall the me by their temperament and inner diversity and com-plexity. I guess, people could live together if they share com-mon interests, profound deep maers that concern them, notsupercial one. Although, even in this case they ought to besome rules, which people should follow.

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LOCATION

The St. Francis School was founded as a girls school by thesisters of the convent in the Limburg Heythuyzen. In 1966 thesisters and parents from the district formed a private schoolboard. In 1968 the school became a mixed school. The school

was formed in 1985 from the nursery and primary school.From 1966 to 2002 the school was led by director Guy van derHorst. He le a big mark on the history of the school. In 2000The St. Francis School joined the Protestant Catholic EducaonFoundaon. Before that it was the only primary school in Ein-dhoven with its own management, which is very uncommonfor our region. The last director, Miriam Smisek, said that theschool was or y years of existence, but was very forward-looking. In 2008 the school merged with the primary Tongelaar,which is also in the district. That would be the new school thatwould become part of the center to be built in neighborhoodTongelrese Akkers.

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MEANING OFTHE SCHOOL

The school. A place to aquire and transfer knowledge.Why toreuse the Franscicus school? The Fransciscus school is not justany empty and unused building but it is also in good repair. Aschool or rather a class is also kind of a community: sharing

and learning in and as a group, is essenal. In this sense theschool seems to be the perfect place to realize this kind of pro-

ject. Qualicaon, socialisaon and idencaon are terms todene the meaning of a school, but also became important forour undersanding of a community in general.

Qualicaon

Preparing for professional life, private life and social funcons.The older generaon can share their knowledge with youngerpeople that are trying to start up their professional life.

Socialisaon

Transfer of a certain social behaviour and fundamental valuesof society. The community members can share their values inan acve way and iniate a change in society.

Idencaon

Self-idencaon within a society.

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WAY OF LIVING

With a crical eye we look back in me and learn from past ex-periences, like the kommunalkas and the hippy comunies.This knowledge can be used to create new ways of living in adeveloped society. Community becomes the keyword in our

research in understanding now a days needs of the people. Itdescribes a growing mentality of cooperaon and a strong de-sire for sharing and exchange. In this concept of new living weshow the results of our research on the basis of two dierentapproaches.

COMMUNITY

CARE

-being an acve part of society

-the future

-being independent & responsible

-themselves

-other people

SHARE

-property & possessions

-knowledge

-interests & ideas

-resources

-me

WHY?

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WHY60PLUS

30MINUSCOMMUNITY ?

Situaon

-People want to share and discover new ways of living-People are ready to live in a community

-People in need

-Lonely-Divorce-Lack of me-Integraon-Financical Situaon-Generaon gap in the future (many old people)

Soluon

Can complete each others needs because of dierent living en-vironment and needs:

-Give each other a company-Donate me (child care)-Share knowledge-Pass of tradions-Share resources (cooking, cleaning)

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TRANSLATIONCONCEPT A

Community Housing

Similar to a student housing.

Private living space with individual or shared bath and smallkitchen + one big community room

- shared kitchen space with a big dinning table- living space with corner and library- entertainment corner [ kicker, board games]- laundry room- shared garden

Private space:For one resident - 27,5 m2in total - 17 private rooms

Community space:

65 m2 in the rst oor92 m2 in the second oor

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- not for growing a new community more like a usual student housing people dont really share, but just coexist in one house

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Private space is limited. But there is a very big shared spacewhere the residents can nd private moments. Every resi-dent has got just small bedroom (about 6-10 m2) as privateand bathroom (shared or not). This is how every person in the

house provided with minimal private space to stay alone if it isnecessary, to storage all the possessions and to organize it inpersonal way. All the other rooms in the house are semi-public,they work for all the communes residents. People share abig kitchen with dinning room, living room with TV corner, gar-dens, library, work spaces, nap room, childrens room, laundry.All this rooms connected with the main axis, so people meeteach other when they move through all the shared rooms bythe way to their own bedroom. The idea is to leave the de-cision how to organize the shared space to the community.Every resident has the responsibility for the shared space infront of his own room. So together with neighbor he becomethe owner of semi-private space in commune house. Theymake decisions about organizing this space mutually. The same

way they decide if they want to invite houses community tocome in to their room or not. In this way residents have got afeeling like they are owners of this space and can do with thisroom whatever they want. This is how there are a lot of dier-ent spaces with strong individuality in one house. At the sameme everybody feels a bit like a guest in neighbors semi-private space. Residents have an opportunity to regulate spacearound. They can expand their semi-private space or reduce itat all for some periods.

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Use corridor for private space, but place a new wall to extend the

private space. This extra-space expands bathroom and also funconsas a place to store all the goods and chaels.

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BEDROOM 6,45-9,6 M2PRIVATE BATHROOM 3,25 M2

BEDROOM 17,7 M2PRIVATE BATHROOM 4,75

BEDROOM 6,75 M2SHARED BATHROOM 4,25 M2

BEDROOM 7,8 -11,8 M2+ EXTRA SPACE - 3,5 -5,5 M2PRIVATE BATHROOM 3,2-4,2 M2

BEDROOM 6,0 M2

+ EXTRA SPACE - 2,4 M2PRIVATE BATHROOM 3,4 M2

BEDROOM 6,8 M2+ EXTRA SPACE - 3,4 M2PRIVATE BATHROOM 3,4 M2

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Woonbedrijf is one in the largest housing companies in theNetherlands and specialized in rent, sale, building and reusingof living houses. Soon this company will have an old schoolbuilding in their property and they want to turn it into living

houses/apartments. Our task was to make a few proposals forreuse of this old building.

So we developed two dierent opons for this building:

-A hostel for students-A house for family

Opon for students

In our opinion every young person wants to spend me withhis friends. Because a lot of students come from abroad tostudy at TU/e or Design Academy and they feel lonely in a newcity. So we wanted to create comfortable condions for stud-

ing, relaxing, preparing food and have fun together. Thats whyin our opons we tried to connect all the funcons together.Apartment for family. The rst idea was to divide a building into dierent apartments. The entrance of each on the rst oorwill be from the street side. The most successful in our opin-ion is the opon with exible walls. With the help of that theowner could create absolutely dierent space in their house.The second idea is to create a townhouse. So we divide a build-ing into new secons and each apartment will have two oors.There are also dierent plan opons.

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EXTRA ACTIVITIESLIVELY CITIES WORKSHOP

North West European Lively cies placemaking tour.

We had a chance to work for a short brainstorming session incollaboraon with Dutch students. During the workshop we

had several Placemaking sessions about the Sint Joseph siteat the city of Eindhoven. We worked together with Dutch stu-dents, residents and local architects. Dierent groups had toanswer quesons about subjects like visibility, identy, vari-aon and exibility of funcons and me. First groups wentout to check the locaon with a local guy. He gave us moreinformaon about the buildings present on the site of St. Jo-seph: what funcons they have and how they inuence thesurrounding open spaces. Finally the dierent groups gave apresentaon containing their concepts for a beer place.

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In one of the last days of summer we were invited to be a part ofa creave acon in the square of the old Tongelaar School. Chil-

dren and adults from all over the neighborhood built houses withcardboard, packing materials and tape. With Elena Lovich, MarijkeSpekman and Mini Smulders they taped a big map of the neigh-borhood on the oor in school yard and put there new houses,factories and other buildings made of reused materials. Local busi-nessman acted as a sponsor of this event and all the parcipantstried biological bread from neighbor bakery and fruits from turkishshop.

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SHADOW CITY PROJECT

Sunlight and shadows are the materials in a public space instal-laon by Izabela Boloz in the picturesque district of sterbroin Copenhagen. Shadow City comes alive with the rising sun,casng shadows of house facades across a 100 meter wall onthe Sortedam Lake. A playful image of a city appears, inspiredby the history of Copenhagen, and changes as it slowly movesacross the wall with the changing posion of the sun.

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COLOPHON

COLOPHON

This publicaon is produced in the collaboraonwith the municipality of Eindhoven

Printed by Repro of the municipality of Eindhoven

Organizaton

Cees Donkers

Cooperaton

Koj KoningEllis KluijtJan van de VenYolanda van Els

Editng

Victoria Khokhlova

Graphic DesignMichael Skachkov

The NetherlandsEindhoven2013

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