We envision our homes to be made out of cross-laminated timber—a wood that comes with huge environmental advantages and outperforms steel and concrete on multiple levels.
Urban Village Project is a new visionary model for developing sustainable, affordable and livable homes for the many people living in cities around the world. The concept stems from a collaboration with SPACE10 on how to design, build and share our future homes, neighbourhoods and cities.
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Cities all around the world are facing major challenges when it comes to rapid urbanisation, ageing populations, loneliness, climate change and lack of affordable housing. It is clear that unless we rethink our built environment, our cities will become increasingly unsustainable, unaffordable and socially unequal.
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Urban Village Project envisions:
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A modular wooden building system designed for disassembly, that can be prefabricated, flat-packed and quickly assembled on site. This ensures a more sustainable and CO2-reducing construction method and a circular approach to the management and life cycle of our buildings.
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A new financial model that drastically lowers the entry point to the housing market, making high quality housing affordable for users of all income classes, while re-establishing the connection between the developer and the consumer.
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Cross-generational shared living communities in the hearts of our cities with flexible, high quality homes connected to a variety of shared services and facilities; and a digital interface to support everyday needs.
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The Urban Villages project has the potential to tackle some of the biggest challenges of the global housing crisis, making housing affordable and livable, creating inclusive and diverse urban communities, reducing the environmental footprint of buildings and alleviating the burden on municipal and national governments in dynamically changing planetary and economic times.
