Co-housing has never been attempted seriously in Malaysia. However, it has been experimented
in America and European countries widely many decades ago. Cohousing communities generally
consist of private, small, but fully equipped homes, a community building (or common house)
and recreation areas. Everything is designed and managed by the residents who have chosen
to live in a close-knit neighborhood that seeks a healthy blend of privacy and community.
The demands of designing the housing settlement require a study in a more comprehensive and
methodological way, especially when one has to deal with the physiological and psychological aspect
of human being. Housing also requires an understanding of the collective needs of human being as
social animals. Therefore the understanding of the socio-cultural aspect of society will be the focus of the
studio. The physical design of housing settlement and its layout is very much a response to those needs.
Housing is a subject and also a
