CDCUL

This project proposes shared-access residential spaces like shared kitchens, shared office spaces, and shared workshops as one pathway to reduce resource consumption without reducing household's access to functional space. Integrating such spaces may allow individuals to live in small private units while sharing access to spaces that might not have otherwise been used intensively. The CDCUL (Consumer Demand for Circular Urban Living) project tests individuals' willingness to to share and willingness to pay for these spaces with a discrete choice experiment (as part of digital survey) sent to over 1,000 adults in the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Sweden. We follow up these results with focus groups and model floor plans to help clarify solutions.

We hope and expect the project to reveal customer segments for shared-access spaces and offer specific design and programming guidance to architects, policy makers, and housing developers, who are all part of the project as well.