Checking in with Scarlet Architects' social living experiment ten years later


In 2009, Jane Aimer and Lindley Naismith of the Auckland-based firm Scarlet Architects decided to embark on a social experiment. Rather than they typical single family home, Aimer and Naismith wanted to design a co-living space for their two separate families. 

Friends since the second year of architecture school, the two were interested in exploring the notion of intensification and community. "We could see a way we could all support each other," Aimer recalls to the New Zealand site, Stuff. 

The result was a set of adjoining townhouses that provided each of their families with separate living spaces while having shared facilities such as a front lobby, a large roof deck, and back gardens integrated throughout. 

Ten years later, the families are still living side by side, and their unique housing typology has been perfectly adaptable to the growing realities of multigenerational living as their aging parents lived next door, and their adult children returned home. 

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