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Cohousing - The Sound of Music

Sound of Music. Beyond the film re-enactments, could be the motto of one of the trends that increasingly is charming Italians.

is the Co-housing (literally: co-residential), a living model that is rooted in the experiences of "common" of the '60s and is now emerging as an alternative to the hectic and expensive ways of life imposed by the city and the rhythms of everyday life. The formula of

Ventures provides private home in environments where space and services are shared with its neighbors. A system capable of protecting the privacy of individuals, but at the same time reduce costs and create a small universe within a socially cohesive size enlarged home.

Forgot your ideological component, which had made a proposal for land movements dispute resulted in Sixty , the cohousing is a pragmatic model that meets the real needs of families. They know well in Northern Europe - where cohousing was officially (in Denmark, in 1964) - U.S. and Canada, where for forty years, the EU is pushing a popular alternative to more traditional lifestyles. The data from abroad say that in fact you can get to save up to 15% of the average monthly expenditure of a family, laundry, car park, plant, nursery, hobby room, gymnasium, workshops, tool resources are normally shared within communities of co-inhabitants. But do not exclude that may also be other services available such as sports facilities, greenhouses and agricultural equipment. Within the communities lived together in fact, we compare both the architectural design and space than on laws.

In Italy there are no precise figures on the size of the phenomenon, one can assume that the pool of potential applicants is around a few thousand people. Not a few, when you consider the lack of attention paid to date by the institutions and problems of building regulations that facilitate its spread. Although, it should be said, there are the problems of this order to be the major impediment. Building regulations can always change, and with respect to the support of the rule it is worth mentioning the 15 million euro provided by the Ministry of Youth, the final budget package, to fund projects of cohousing.

"The biggest problem - Antonella Sapio says the National Institute for the promotion and study of cohousing ( Ispco ) - not to pinpoint structures and available land, as had been believed, but in the preparatory work the formation of groups. These often come in the wake of needs, but the cohabitation must be the culmination of a conscious and shared path that can not be reduced simply to a few preliminary meeting. What is needed is the creation of a horizon of purpose and common rules and participated. " That is why the formation processes of the communities are structured, detailed knowledge of moments. Interested parties, aided by the presence of figures of support - such as social mediators - are called to tell in a very concrete way, through the passions of sports, hobbies, skills and ideas on child rearing, in search of a common denominator on which to build the spirit of the group. There is of course those who abandon the path, but this comparison is the only way to get the construction of a stable group that can withstand over time the problems of coexistence that necessarily also affect the small communities of cohousing.

Stefano Vannucci

to learn more:

www.cohousing-italy.com
www.ispcohousing.org
www.swansway.com
www.easternvillage.org
www . krausfitch.com
www.cohousing.org