Caroline Dove - Radical Housing: Designing multi-generational and co-living housing for all

It was a panel discussion at the RIBA Journal and Norbord Europe Ltd awards for designs for affordable multigenerational homes that led to the idea of writing this book, so thanks are due to both of these organisations for the original inspiration.

Special thanks must go to Ginny Mills, Clare Holloway and Michle Woodger of RIBA PubliWshing for their support, encouragement and endless patience with the author.

I would also like to thank all contributors for making this book possible, as well as many others who have written informative and inspiring books and articles.

Thanks are due to the following individuals who wrote case studies: Irene Craik, Levitt Bernstein, for Buccleuch House; Riette Oosthuizen, HTA Design LLP, for her studies of Supurbia and Hanham Hall; Auguste van Oppen, BETA, for 3 Generation House; Manisha Patel, PRP, for her study of the multigenerational house at Chobham Manor. Claire Curtice on behalf of Mole Architects for Marmalade Lane

Likewise, those who provided information and images (for photographers please see Image Credits):

HTA Design LLP; Peter Barber, Peter Barber architects; Peter Sikker Rasmussen, CF Moller; Richard Partington, Studio Partington; Ed Burgess, barc; Sam Goss, Barefoot Architects; James Macdonald Wright; Zoran Juresa, Erik arkitekter A/S; Ulrich Kriese, Siftung Edith Maryon; Patrick Devlin, PTEa, Maria Brenton, OWCH; Koen Crabbendam, CASA architecten; Michael LaFond, id22; Andrew Yeats, EcoArc; Carles Baiges Camprubi, Lacol Arquitectura Cooperative; Simon Caspersen, Space10; White Architecture.

Finally, but by no means least, I am grateful for the generous encouragement, nourishment and translations from my family and friends.

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• UN Department of Economic and Social Affaris, News, 16 May 2018 (accessed via: https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html)
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• House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee, Housing for Older People: Second Report of Session 201719, HC 370, 9 February 2018
• The Good Home Report, What Makes a Happy Home, The Happiness Research Institute for Kingfisher plc, June 2019
• Tell us: Who do you share your home with?, the Guardian, 10 November 2018 (First of a series about the many ways we chose to live together)
• Claus Bech-Danielsen, Mette Mechlenborg and Marie Stender, Welcome Home. Trends in Danish Housing Architecture, (exhibition catalogue for the Danish Architecture Centre), Politikens Forlag, Copenhagen, 2018
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• Blake Morgan, NOwnership, No Problem: An Updated Look At Why Millennials Value Experiences Over Owning Things, Forbes, 2 Jan 2019 (accessed via: https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2019/01/02/nownership-no-problem-an-updated-look-at-why-millennials-value-experiences-over-owning-things/)
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• Aamna Modhin, Nearly a million more adults now live with parents, The Guardian, 8 Feb 2019
• The Resolution Foundation, A New Generational Contract: Report of the Intergenerational Commission, May 2018
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• ibid
• ibid
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• Suzanne Bearne, How sky-high rents forced people into imaginative alternatives; Observer 17 February 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/feb/17/high-rents-alternative-living-arrangements
• Simca Simpson, Bricks and Mortar, Viewpoint 74, Housing Learning and Improvement Group (LIN); and with Dr Samantha Callan, Bricks and Mortar Across Generations: A Think Piece on Intergenerational Living in the United Kingdom, Home Renaissance Foundation, March 2015
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• RIBA Journal, MultiGen Awards, Products in Practice (PIP), 16 October 2017
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• Alyn Griffiths, 3 generation House, Dezeen, 22 April 2019
• RIBA, The story of Caring Wood, architecture.com, 1 Dec 2017
• Deborah Saunt, Jury Chair, RIBA House of the Year 2017, reported on architecture.com, 1 December 2017
• Chloe Smith, London: Garden City? Investigating the changing anatomy of Londons private gardens, and the scale of their loss, London Wildlife Trust, Greenspace Information for Greater London and the Greater London Authority, 2010

• Clare Bennie Places that get better over time in David Levitt and Jo McCafferty (eds) Housing Design Handbook, Routledge, 2019, p7
• Lifetime Homes was a standard for accessible and adaptable housing initiated by a group of housing experts and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the early 1990s. Its 16 design criteria have now been included in Part M of the Building Regulations
• RIBA Awards 2017 (accessed via: https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-yorkshire-award-winners/2017/derwenthorpe-phase-one)
• Arthur M Edwards, The Design of Suburbia, A Critical Study in Environmental History quoted by Barbara Simms in Eric Lyons and Span, RIBA Publishing, 2006, p97
• Barbara Simms, Eric Lyons and Span, RIBA Publishing, 2006, p104
• Lord Scarman quoted in Nick Wates and Charles Knevitt, Community Architecture How People are Creating their Own Environment, Penguin, 1987, pp1617
  Lord Scarman was President of the UK Council for the UN International Year of Shelter for the Homeless 1987 two strong themes being community participation and self-help
• Peter Murray et al, Public Housing: A London Renaissance, New London Architecture, 2019 (Exhibition catalogue for New London Architecture at the Building Centre, London, MayJune 2019)