Intergenerational dialogue

The rise in people`s living standards increases life expectancy. People are ageing, but not dying. Who would care for older people? The co-housing show how the revitalization not only revives the historical industrial areas but also creates an alternative type of residential model. That means the end of loneliness and the beginning of active life.

The area bills itself as an ideal model for the joint residence of people of different generations, where the main criteria have been the leaning and creative environment and continuous natural landscape restoration. The existing drainage system has formed a water channel with a landscaped promenade with the possibility of boat rentals. Different-scale housing development and social infrastructure facilities have created a comfortable environment. The residential house has been created in conformity with collective social life. The concept includes three basic levels: Housing, Education (where Creativity is its part) and Production. Different generations are equally involved in all processes. The project involves individual apartments with individual kitchens and bathrooms, however, residents have access to places of “intergenerational conversation” designed for communication and common activities. Co-housing is a “city in a city” with kindergartens, sport and cultural centres, offices, shops, restaurants. Spaces such as a music hall, art and craft workshops, libraries, enhance creativity. The gardens on the trafficable terraces and the district territory bring back the idea of ??an individual lifestyle. The planning structure consists of sections of different heights (from 7 to 20 floors). The terraced roof is used as open spaces for house residents occupied by various season-specific functional areas that can be used in the warm season as a mini-farm for greens, seedlings, plants, insects cultivation, dovecote, a creative workshop or a library. The residential block has different apartment typologies as per the social categories. Studio-apartments maintain a comfortable life for older people and become transformed to a united space.