More than Living Together: Exploring Community Cohesion in Co-Housing Life

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 公共衛生碩士學位學程 === 107 === Purpose: Co-Housing is becoming a global trend: it is a way of living that is different from traditional leased living space and emphasizes the arrangement of communal interaction and public space between the co-habitants. According to research, the conscious...

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Main Authors: Pei-Chi Yang, 楊佩綺
Other Authors: Hsin-Chieh Chang
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3bpfhx
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 公共衛生碩士學位學程 === 107 === Purpose: Co-Housing is becoming a global trend: it is a way of living that is different from traditional leased living space and emphasizes the arrangement of communal interaction and public space between the co-habitants. According to research, the conscious design of living space to create interactive spaces or mechanisms can induce the development of communal and neighborhood relationships. This research focuses on the "9-floor co-living apartment" of 9Floor Space Company’s practice venue, and discuss the formation process of the communal relationship and coalescence of the cohousing space, and answer the following research questions. 1. What are the characteristics of community and activity in a co-housing space? 2. How to develop communal coalescence in a co-housing environment? Method: To understand the unique communal relationship within a co-housing space, and record the modes of interaction and experience among co-habitants, this research adopts the qualitative research method and use a certain co-housing managed by 9Floor space as the field to study the co-habitants. The study conducted a six-period participatory observation, and produce a field documentary for analysis. Results: As the manager and mediator, possessing a mechanism to filter applications and matching co-habitants and form a layered internet through an internet platform. The platform connects communal members through on-line and off-line activities, which would impact the makeup and characteristics of the co-habitants. If a tighter connection among community members in the co-housing space is to be created, the vitality and active qualities of the core members are often relied upon for group cohesion. As such communities are not long-term relationships and have transitional characteristics that form special interactions and weak ties that define the communal and coalescing characteristics of the co-housing community.