HALF EMPTY HOUSES
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
Program
Architecture and planning beyond sustainability (MPDSD), MSc
Publicerad
2023
Författare
Kumlien, Lovisa
Modellbyggare
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Sammanfattning
The single family house is a typology with an invisible vacancy and a
great future potential to tackle large societal challenges. 50% of Swedish
households live in single family houses and they are to be found all over
the country. Many of them are built for a family with children but today
the majority of these houses are inhabited by only 1 or 2 persons and a
third of all house owners express they have too much space. There is a
discrepancy between what we build or dream of and the reality of how we
live today. The lack of variations in sizes and ownership models can make
it hard to both stay in and move to the area.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the potential of the single family
house to develop new housing solutions within the existing as well as
summarising knowledge and strategies for how this can be done and how
to reach qualities in the design while doing so.
The project takes place in the context of the island Åstol where the only
option to create more housing is to develop within the existing 180 villas
and where the future of the local community is dependent on how they
make use of their limited space. The outcome of the thesis is a design
proposal of how 3 of these villas can be transformed to support a
sustainable development.
Through research of relevant reports and references on the subject
together with real life examples based on interviews and statistics, the
proposals of transformations are presented as a palette of potential
showcasing new ways of living - matching the needs of today’s society as
well as challenging the norm of how we live today.
Beskrivning
Ämne/nyckelord
single family house, transformation, coliving, rural and rurban development, housing norms