Designing Multigenerational Dwelling A Workshop with Four Flemish Architecture Firms

Due to social shifts, demographic changes and spatial challenges, housing is at the top of the social agenda in Flanders. Recently, communal housing concepts are being put forward to strive against these general developments. This paper presents research on multigenerational dwelling. After theoretical inquiry throughout the last years, this paper deals with research by design, to ‘test’ multigenerational dwelling as a new housing concept for Flanders. It is a pathway in which design is used to clarify the potentials and conditions for this ‘new’ way of dwelling.