The project was designed as result of a Project Unit at Politecnico di Torino.
 COhousing COmponible aims to renovate an existing district in Turin adding two floors for each building where are settled co-housing units and related facilities. Moreover, the renovation was the excuse to increase the value and the quality of the entire area.

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The unit project deals with architectural form and technology experimentation. The initial brief provided for the addition of two floors over 6 existing buildings settled in the northern part of Turin, but the project did a further step and the existing buildings’ enlargement was the excuse to re-qualify the entire area creating services and facilities for both people already live in the building and for new inhabitants.

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The project starts at urban scale reconnecting the area to the surrounding neighbourhood and improving the conditions of existing green areas, improving buildings quality since the masterplan strategy. 

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At building level, the project studies a new form of living, represented by the co-housing with some mitigation in its definition. Residential units are autonomous and respect limit areas, in addition there are some common spaces, such as dining rooms, kitchens, relax areas and spaces for children that people living in new dwellings and existing ones can use, improving social aggregation. 

 New residential units are different in terms of areas starting from units designed for one people to larger units designed for families. Four different types of units are designed to respond to different users need; they can be combined as necessary with common spaces creating different solutions. In this sense the aggregations proposed for the six buildings represented only one possible solution based on predicted need of local inhabitants.

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More in detail, the project dealt new solution technologies and its potential. All the added spaces have a timber X-LAM structure that, in combination with external insulation, extended also to existing façades, made the project able to meet minimum energy performance requirements. Façades are externally cladded differently depending on functions: solar radiation are maximize and controlled in common areas while in duellings more private spaces were crated. 

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Finally, it is possible to notice the importance of the modularity of the project that is designed to be flexible and modifiable, depending on needs of inhabitants.

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Team: Martina Bertoncini | Adele Boggio