Lars Ågren, Kollektivhuset Stacken, Göteborg, Sweden, 1969-1980. The first small collective house of the multi-family dwelling “Swedish model”. © Claes Caldenby.
Kollektivhus

the Swedish model

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https://doi.org/10.52200/65.A.78U9KN9V

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Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern housing, Post-war housing, Welfare architecture, Mass housing, Collective housing, Swedish modern architecture, Kollektivhus, Co-housing, Hässelby Family Hotel, Carl-Axel Acking, Kollektivhuset Trädet, hsb architects, Kollektivhuset Stacken, Lars Ågren

Abstract

Today there is a new wave of co-housing internationally. Co-housing is here understood as collaborative housing, based on collaboration between residents on cooking and house maintenance, a new phenomenon since the 1980s. Sweden has a tradition since early modernism of kollektivhus, collective houses, in multi-family dwellings with employed staff managing household work. In Sweden today there are only some 40 true kollektivhus or co-housing projects, while ordinary Swedish postwar multi-family dwellings have common facilities that potentially would make them co-housing. Co-housing is often seen as a sustainable house form, but a problem is that they mainly reach middle-class residents.

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Caldenby, C. (2021). Kollektivhus: the Swedish model. Docomomo Journal, (65), 92–97. https://doi.org/10.52200/65.A.78U9KN9V

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2021-07-01

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No. 65 (2021): Housing for All

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Essays

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Claes Caldenby, Chalmers University of Technology

(Uppsala, Sweden, 1946). Architect, PhD in theory and history of architecture. Professor emeritus at Chalmers School of Architecture in Gothenburg and co-editor of Arkitektur, the Swedish review of architecture, since 1977.

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