Survey Results

Space 10 Survey Results

The General Average of people who have taken the survey:

Would prefer couples, single women and single men in their community Prefer to live in the city Think people with a design background would be the best at designing a coliving community Don’t think it matters if the people who design their community have experienced co-living themselves Prefer members to share equal ownership of the house Would pay extra for a service layer to manage all house related items Only want the common areas to come furnished and furnish their own space themselves Want house-members from different walks of life Would rather have set private and communal spaces with clear boundaries of use Think being neat and tidy, honesty and being considerate are the most important qualities in a house-member Are most comfortable sharing internet, self-sustainable garden and workspaces

Want to make sure their private room is off-limits when they’re not home

Would love any kind of pet in the house

Think 4-10 is the right amount of people for a community

Want new house-members to be selected by a consensus vote

Would prefer to pay energy costs based on the amount of energy used per person

Worry most about the potential lack of privacy

Would settle conflicts by talking to that person privately

Think the two biggest pros of living with others is having more ways to socialize and splitting costs The points highlighted in bold were the ones that I 100% agreed with

Out of the 21 questions asked, the demographic my design will be aimed at (people of all ages in any life situation from Australia) agree with the global average on 19 of them. The disagreements come from the questions: What background would be best suited to create the community? Where the global average decided that a design background would be best and my aimed demographic though an architectural background would be best. What are the two biggest pros of co-living? Where the global average thought that having more ways to socialise and splitting costs would be the best. My aimed demographic agreed that having more ways to socialise is one of the biggest pros, but also thought that having another community outside of work or school is a bigger positive than splitting costs.

The first disagreement amphasises my chosen demographic’s need for a well designed, thought out living space. The second greatly emphasises how important having a new community is, and how important it is to create this community so that it grows and develops relationships. This can be dome by finding like-minded people who share similar values or answers from the survey.

Space 10 Survey Results

Now that we have the survey results, we can see what is important to the chosen community and design the living space accordingly

Ownership People prefer to have a vote in who joins the community later on. This option is included for the residents in my design as it allows them to grow and develop a community how they would like to, further strengthening it in the long run.

Space Most people would prefer having clear boundries between private and communal spaces. This will be incorporated in my design, with areas completely private fpr an individual and areas completely shared by the community. Privacy Throughout the survey results, people almost unanimously tend to worry about a lack of privacy the most. In my design people will only share bedrooms if they’re in a couple or a family, otherwiae they have their bedrooms completely to themselves. Any more private areas may discourage socialising and community building, although members will have privatee plots on the buildings rooftop garden to give more of a sense of ownership. Service Most agree that they would pay extra for a service layer to manage all household related items. This applies to things like fixing utilities or managing shared car expenses.

Community Size While most prefer being a part of a smaller community (4-10 people), my design will feature a much larger community, but divided into seperate spaces to form smaller communities within the larger group. This allows people to grow comportable around their community first and branch out to other groups later on. This will be done by having seperate apartment blocks around the site. Diversity People from all walks of life are welcome, but in order to best grow the developing community to begin with, residents will only range from children-adults, either attending school, working in office or at home, studying or staying at home. This will give everyone in the community other people in similar situations to theirs.