24/12/2020
KYODO NO MORI BY UARCHITECTS Tokyo. The uniqueness of this project compared to past cooperative projects is the way in which collaboration was used as a tool in achieving integrated community living within the urban biotope. The participatory design process was fully comprehensive. This is specially remarkable since the project was the first cohousing development in Japan. Residents had no prior knowledge of cohousing. They came together with the design and development of the project, not to build community, as is generally the case in cohousing. And yet, a community was built in the process.