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Living Lab Hybrid Housing: 7 Ways to Rethink How We Live

Maarten Lambrechts
Clara Van Geel

In Flanders, we will need 450,000 new homes by 2050. How can we accommodate this within our current society? VITO set up a three‑year research project with various partners to explore how hybrid housing models, such as cooperatives, can contribute to affordable housing and meet today’s housing needs. Archipelago contributed to the architect’s point of view and shared its experience with circular building projects. The research resulted in seven recommendations on how to address this challenge with hybrid and circular solutions.

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Model Living Lab Hybrid Housing

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