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Item Restricted Adaptive interior design strategies for constantly changing living conditions(2018) Faghihi, Gila Modjtahed Zadeh; Larsen, Sigurd; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; Faculty of Architecture and Design; Berlin International University of Applied Sciences"Germany currently finds itself in the midst of a housing crisis, in particular because the property market has mainly been defined by profit-driven development. There is a lack of adequate and affordable living space, especially for those in the creative scene. Artists, musicians, small-scale entrepreneurs, and urban creatives who themselves create "the urban" they inhabit find themselves priced-out of the city and are forced to cope with the increasing issue of increased housing costs and low housing stock. This Bachelor thesis examines the recent development of adaptive forms of housing provision in response to such a crisis, thereby investigating past and existing alternative living/housing principles in the form of cooperatively organized housing projects. This research indicates the emergence of a new mode of future-oriented living as well as a process of hybridization that leads in the direction of new modes of dwelling in urban spaces. Reviewing the existing literature on the topic as well as surveys of long-term development in the realm of urban living, this thesis evaluates current living conditions in the modern city by considering the relevant historical background of collaborative living and working arrangements and allowing past projects to inform future-thinking designs."Item Restricted Cluster apartments in Berlin as a future living model(2020) Ulm, Ashley; Larsen, Sigurd; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"Berlin is attractive for its career and study opportunities, many green spaces, mobility, leisure, and cultural facilities. The majority of Germany's citizens still want to live in the city. However, living space capacities are becoming rare and rent prices are increasing. The fact that merely 15.6% of Berliners own a condominium reveals that only a small population can afford property (Investitionsbank Berlin, 2019). The housing market has hardly adapted to demographic changes in recent years, including an aging society and a shift away from the nuclear family household structure. Most of Berlin's inhabitants live on their own. Of a total of 2,026,300 households in Berlin, there are 1,0719,12 single-occupant households (Investitionsbank Berlin, 2019). Due to the lack of alternative housing forms and the desire to design something according to individual ideas, initiative projects evolved. These projects were mostly realized in cooperatives. Group-initiatives develop personal responsibilities and identification with the place. Building communities often accept collective liability for spaces beyond their individual living spaces. This creates lively neighbourhoods that can offer new opportunities to all residents (Ring, 2013). A good example is cluster apartments. This special form of housing could be considered as a housing concept for Berlin. A cluster apartment is an assembly of living units in a communal flat. It combines the advantages of private living with those of a shared accommodation Wohngemeinschaft (WG). These flats consist of several private residential units with one or more rooms, including a private bathroom and optionally a kitchenette. Additional communal areas consist of one or more living areas, cooking and dining areas, and bathroom as well as guest rooms for flexible usage. Each cluster apartment is an experiment in terms of planning, organizing, and building. The current projects are testing alternative approaches and transforming living models, experiences future projects can profit from. However, as these projects are at an early stage of development, there is little long-term experience and little evaluating research at this time (Prytula et al., 2019). Therefore, it is the aim of this bachelor's thesis to investigate how cluster apartments correspond to the current and future economic and ecological needs of Berlin's inhabitants. Beyond that, this thesis will examine how the interiors of cluster apartment spaces can be designed both conceptually and spatially to contribute quality living spaces in Berlin."Item Restricted Communal living : a contemporary adaptation of Berlin's 'Gründerzeit' buildings in the 21st century(2020) Martín, Javier; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"With the beginning of the 21st century, Berlin and many other industrial capitals are experiencing growing interests in alternative living models, such as co-living. [...] While a number of innovative pioneer projects have been arising within various cities over the past decades, the main housing markets are only adapting slowly towards these paradigm shifts. As a result, a severe lack of contemporary adaptation within residential architecture is experienced today and urban housing structures lack spaces in which residents can come together, share their daily lives and resources with each other (Kries et al. 2017, 41). [...] With about one quarter (27%) of Berlin's population living in tenement buildings, built before 1918 (Berlin.de 2011), a main challenge and at the same time of great impact, would be a contemporary adaptation of old domestic tenement buildings within the city. The appearance and urban life of Germany's capital is shaped by tenement buildings from the Gründerzeit era, erected during the time of the industrialization. They hold great cultural and historic values for the city and its residents and offer various spatial qualities that are no longer to be found within new rise buildings. However, with major changes occurring in our modern living models, these building structures with its emergence of around one hundred years ago, do not fully meet contemporary needs any more and lack spaces in which residents can come together, allowing them to be part of a community. Through a qualitative and contemporary adaptation of such buildings, the values of their old construction and their inimitable charm could be preserved and at the same time constructive living solutions for the contemporary urban lifestyle could be created. This thesis therefore aims with its research, to investigate the development and relevance of co-living in the 21st century, in order to understand contemporary needs of urban societies. It furthers seeks to find qualitative solutions for the implementation of communal spaces into Berlin's existing Gründerzeit tenement buildings, with the aim to make use of a widely available resource. This practice intents to create high qualitative urban living spaces that meet society's demands for community life and which simultaneously promotes the differing lifestyles and needs of today's society."Item Restricted Contemporary interior design solutions for co-living in Berlin(2020) Wöhe, Lucia; Larsen, Sigurd; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"Architecturally speaking, there is no specific design or style in order to establish a home for a shared housing community. Each co-living project depends on the individual needs of the residents, which again affects the design approach. When it comes to the design, one important subject revolves around the question: what is private and what public? Usually, shared living is based on the idea to reduce privacy and emphasise on the communal aspect, in order to generate space that is qualitatively more valuable. Public and private boundaries must be constantly negotiated according to developments in society, e.g., changing lifestyles, household types, work modes and mobility. Clearly, both sociological and design factors matter in the process of establishing a co-living space and community (Schmid 2019, 15-22). In this research, the following questions are going to be explored: How can contemporary interior design solutions for co-living respond to future social needs in Berlin? How will that shape the conception of living? This research aims to establish an understanding of the spatial organisation of co-living in relation to the social needs of residents. In order to portray and analyse different projects that have already been established, it will be important to explore different forms of co-living concepts in detail. To give an appropriate insight into the current co-living situation in Berlin, the research will concentrate on the past decade only. Although co-living can be seen as a potential solution for certain issues in society, the following research will also reflect upon the concept in a critical way."Item Restricted Densification of Berlin : co-living as an alternative(2019) Verdickt, Alain; Larsen, Sigurd; Starck, Adrian von; Faculty of Architecture and Design; Berlin International University of Applied Sciences"This following Berlin International University thesis is written to give a closer look in the living situation in Berlin (2019) and how it has developed over the last 2 decades. The media shows how rental prices in Berlin drives people out of the city center and how thousands of people protest against the progressive rent and gentrification under the motto: 'Gemeinsam gegen Verdrängung und Mietenwahnsinn', 'Together against repression and rent madness.' (Peter,2019) By looking at the data of the rising population in Berlin, one sees a direct correlation to the rising rent prices and sales prices, which has an effect on living within the city centre. The expanding Start-up scene in Berlin brings expats here to work and live, affecting the housing markets. Furthermore, this thesis will give an insight of a sharing economy. By using examples of how this has simplified people's lives and how it could be stretched to design living places in a metropole. A case study will be done over existing sharing platforms such as: Drivenow, Airbnb, Netflix and Spotify. A deeper look into existing Co-living spaces in Berlin and what they offer. Such as: Lifex, Vonder, Quarters, LiveBerlin and Projects in Berlin. The desired outcome of this thesis is to describe co-living as a possible alternative for living spaces in Berlin. Looking to be flexible and easily accessible and fulfilling the contemporary needs and designs of the market."Item Restricted Densification on roofscapes as a solution for the shortage of living spaces : Impact and possible challenges of vertical densification on roofscapes(2021) Will, Ronja; bachelor thesis in Interior Architecture / Interior DesignMACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : The shortage of living spaces in metropolitan cities is globally a central challenge for which many politicians, architects and the whole society has to deal with. 'Yet building grounds and plots of land in cities are limited' (Kramer, 2018, 6). But according to prognoses from 2018 of the 'Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen', the growth of population is up to 3,888 Mio. for 2025 only in Berlin (Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen, 2019, 3). Therefore, the respective decision makers are urgently requested to find a solution to offer as fast as possible new living spacesItem Restricted Room for collision : the key role of communal spaces in multi-generational co-living projects(2020) Ebert, Anna; Ebert, Carola; Larsen, Sigurd; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"[W]e are facing two drastic, and harmful, developments: a population that grows both older and more socially isolated. From an architectural point of view, I believe co-living projects, in particular, can offset loneliness in the elderly population, and isolation throughout. For my thesis, I have visited multi-generational co-living projects in Mainz and held interviews with current inhabitants, future inhabitants, and the architect of the projects, which are all built and run by one social housing agency. The examples I have visited and based my design on follow the so-called Bielefeld Model [...]. The Bielefeld Model would like to eradicate the notion of separate retirement homes, and rather build a functioning community that brings the whole neighborhood together. As strong as this concept is, during my interviews and accompanying research, I have discovered some room for improvement. The communal room element of the architectural examples I am working with is, so far, limited to a neighborhood café run by the inhabitants. [...] I believe for a community to outgrow its architectural borders and have a positive and community-creating influence on the greater neighborhood, it has to be very strong within itself. This is why I am proposing to add another layer of semi-privacy to the co-living project; something that can exist between the full privacy of individual apartments and the extreme exposure of the neighborhood café. I am proposing more communal rooms - rooms that are not open to the public, like the neighborhood café is, but reserved for use by the internal community. These concentric circles - home, to common room, to café - allow people to comfortably grow their sphere of public life. I believe this work is vitally important because intergenerational co-living projects with well-designed communal spaces carry a strong potential to bring together our fragmented society. [...] The findings of this paper are based on the comparative analysis of selected literature on the topic of co-living. I will first state the history of co-living and offer thoughts as to why it has repeatedly failed. I will then present the Bielefeld Model as a contemporary and promising case study. This case serves not only as a general example of multi-generational co-living, but also as the foundation of my design project. In addition, I will introduce various other contemporary case studies, with a particular focus on their public room program. For a better understanding of the particular case I built my design project into, I conducted interviews with the architect of the building, as well as with current and future inhabitants of comparable projects. In these interviews, I have uncovered perceived flaws and ideas for improvement in multi-generational co-living projects, rooted in the Bielefeld Model."Publication Restricted Towards a New Housing Model for Dementia Care(2025) Puerto Cardenas, Danniela Alejandra; Goodwin, Amara; Interior Design (MA) (Two-Year); Berlin International University of Applied SciencesThe rapid growth of dementia cases worldwide has urged the need for a more human-centered approach in regard to the living environments. As the number of cases is expected to rise, so does the necessity of developing new therapeutic spaces that support both individuals with cognitive decline and their caretakers. Co-living, a contemporary housing model term rooted in the principles of cohousing, offers a solution by fostering communal living and meaningful social interaction. This research explores the benefits of adapting a co-living housing model for those in the early stages of dementia while also taking into consideration design elements such as wayfinding, color, materiality, and access to nature. Co-living is introduced as an adaptive housing model that offers an alternative to traditional institutional care center designs. The findings are then implemented in an interior design context: the adaptive reuse of the Eternithaus, located in Berlin’s Hansaviertel. The proposal transforms the building into a co-living environment designed for a wide group of users, making the most of the thoughtful original design and adapting its use to a more familiar and supportive environment. In conclusion, the work here presented is a framework towards a more inclusive and empathetic housing model for dementia care. By evaluating collaborative, therapeutic, and non-institutional design approaches. The research offers valuable insight into how interior environments can support well-being through spatial clarity, emotional comfort, and aesthetic sensitivity.