Housing suitable for Chinese lifestyle: co-living shared housing

The Eastern and Western architectural philosophies are different, so the living building patterns are also different. Ancient villages or cities in China are all low-rise buildings with spread out. Only newly built modern cities have western-style buildings that develop upright. Chinese architecture is expansive, because the Chinese are used to family living together. Therefore, when a family spreads its branches and leaves, the house it lives in also expands relatively outwards.

Hong Kong was a British colony 97 years ago, and the city is dominated by Western-style buildings. Citizens live in tenement buildings with the first two or three floors, tenement buildings with no elevators on the ninth floor, and modern residential buildings with four or fifty floors. Due to the small land and many people, the houses are relatively small, so it is no longer possible for a family to live in the same house as before. However, many children still choose to live in the same building or housing estate as their parents after they get married, so that they can take care of each other.

In recent years, a living model called co-living (shared housing) has become popular in the West. In fact, it is a group of people, single people and families of different sizes, living in the same building. In addition to having its own independent living space, the biggest feature is to share some common spaces and facilities, such as kitchen, dining room, living room and garden. The living model is that each household has a consensus to be responsible for the duties in the public space, such as cooking dinner, cleaning and maintaining the garden.