SLICE: A New Urban Living Solution

Essay, High Density, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms

Collective housing, Density, Essay, Experimental housing, Flexibility, Functional unit, Future cities, Housing, Modular Housing, New paradigms, Political & Economic Approach, Prefab housing, Prefabrication, Project, Tower

Observable trends like the gig economy and increasing urbanization are fueling the creation of services that are shared on demand and connected. Existing mobility services, like mobike, or pay-as-you-go coworking services, like nakedHub Go, are good examples that are enhancing and reconstructing city life and work in Chinese cities. People tend to own fewer properties, fewer belongings, fewer bikes and even fewer devices and instead use sharing services. We are nearing a future where new solutions for living and working spaces will be needed.