Project: Intergenerational Living Development

Intergenerational Living Development is a PHC-serviced project to investigate, develop and demonstrate a repeatable model for high-quality, affordable intergenerational housing.
The concept begins with the possibility of two or more related households living within a deliberately designed residential environment that provides both genuine independence and selected shared facilities. An initial architectural concept uses an H-shaped arrangement, with separate residential wings for different generations connected by shared living space and opening towards common outdoor facilities. This is an initial design hypothesis rather than a prescribed solution.
The wider project will examine how architecture, land use, shared infrastructure, financing, ownership, legal structures and community arrangements could combine to provide younger households with secure and attractive homes while enabling older generations to contribute capital and remain independent, involved and supported.
The intention is to develop more than a single family home. The project will investigate whether the principles can be turned into a repeatable development model capable of supporting individual family projects, multi-family communities and larger developments in the UK and internationally.
PHC Service will maintain the project evidence base, Concerns, Actions, decisions, specialist inputs, lessons learned and readiness information. Architects, planners, lawyers, financial advisers, developers, engineers and other disciplines will remain independent specialist services contributing to the project as required.