For my thesis project, I designed a flat set in a social housing building. (See the first part of the project here: http://www.behance.net/gallery/CASA-NELLA-CASA/11157087)

It's a 40sm flat, where two off-site fixed-term workers are meant to live for a maximum of 6 months. 

This is one of the few apartments in our project where two people are supposed to live together.

Moreover, the small dimensions of the flat, together with the setting of the windows, doesn't allow for two bedrooms but only a double room.

 

After researching the meaning of 'home', taking into consideration the needs of two strangers living together and the surrounding circumstances, i defined my guidelines:

 

_FLEXIBILITY

_ADAPTABILITY

_CUSTOMIZATION

_COMMUNICATION

_SHARING

_PRIVACY

_LOW COST

_HOUSING QUALITY