CoS0 is a Co-housing Sustainable prototype that could be split and assembled into different configurations according to the exigencies of other blocks. It is composed of various elements, each one with proper recognizable characteristics, mixed in an organic system of private, semi-private, common and public functions of the everyday life.
The modularity of the elements allows a simple realization of the entire proposal by phases in accordance to the exigencies and the resources of the inhabitants of a period. Technologies and materials are the lower cost possible to make them easily understanding and maintaining by the inhabitants themselves. Thanking to simple adjustments for courtyards and roofs, the inhabitants could reach a great variety of new areas for green activities with no need of taking more m2 from the streat area.
CoS0 is a system that can be totally permeable for every kind of wheels-people with the aim of improving autonomous cooperation and healthiness.
The whole solution wants to be a sustainable intervention with a low impact for the community, although the building from outside stay almost the same with light signs of what happens inside, now it becomes physically and ideologically open to the community for a continuous social cooperation that improves the quality of living.
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