Design- wireless lamp

Wireless lamp
-Wifi Charging
-easy to carry
-LED Light
-touch screen to switch on or off the light
-arrange it to different position of lighting anytime
-Adjustable brightness

It can solve the problem of limited space by place it in different position and make the room looks more spacial (visual) and expense , it is more power saving .It also provide the function of solar energy and last longer use.It can be connect the wifi within 100 square meter. Control the brightness by the remote control.

 Designed the position by yourself. It can place any where you want in term of within the 10 square meter from the wifi connection.

SKETCH

My idea is come from the bluetooth wireless speaker.

SOUND BLASTER ROAR

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Research on design solution

Privacy pop bed tent will be protect our privacy which living collectively.It is light and can travel anywhere now, folding down into a small carrying case for use. sometime the roommates are sleeping but you still on the light of the room for maybe rushing your work until midnight.Base on the design of reduce the outside light, you can do your work until midnight in the room and at the same time ,no worries about your lighting will be effect your roommate cannot to rest well.

Interview - conclusion

There are 3 personas including the workers , the interior designer and  student.They are all consider to living collectively of the reason to cut down the rental.They all were faced with different problems yet the same situation.Three of them faced the different problem which is limited space of room, the time of rest is different with her roommate and the owner touch her privacy with came in her room without her permission.

From the problem that they were given, they solved the problem in different ways. The interior designer was found that her problem was the space is too small and she is living with the other 2 peoples in this small space. As she is a designer so she was have an idea about the position of the furniture will effect to the space and she was install some multi-functional furniture. Fortunately, her roommate and her owner were consent the idea and support her with sharing the cost.The worker was faced the problem of privacy . Her owner was came in her room and opened her letter without her permission. She is very angry but she try to control her temper and try to talk nicely to her owner and the owner was never came into her room and touch her things without her permission already.The student was faced the problem that is she cannot turn on the light after 10pm because of her roommate was sleep earlier and she always done her homework until late. So, she prepared the desk lamp to continue do her homework. Even though she prepared her own desk lamp, but she still cannot continue her work at night because of her roommate was very sensitive to sound. Therefore, she wake up earlier and continue her homework by next morning.

After this occurrence , all of the 3 personas learned the same things although they faced different problem, they solved the problem by the same way which is tolerate with each other.They have discuss their idea or dissatisfaction to their roommate or owner. If they were not living collectively, they will never have this opportunity to learn how to get along with the other and solve the problem together.

Interview 3- worker

Xue Er is a worker who comes from Kluang, Malaysia. She earns money by herself for furthering her study as she wants to ease the burden of her parents. In order to save enough money for furthering her study, she has to rent a room which is around SGD350 

per month and living in cooperative. So rental is the most important thing that she will 

consider before renting a room. Finally, her rental meets her budget. She is currently living 

and sharing a room with others two people in Ang Mo Kio. Living in cooperative has both its 

pros and cons. Pros can be share rental and resources, improve the skill for conflict 

resolution, stronger social networks and others. Cons include conflict, hygiene, noise, 

limited space and others. However, privacy is the most difficult problem that she faced 

when living in cooperative and she is not prefer to live with owner as there was a time, the 

owner went into her room without permission. However, there's a rule in tenant contract 

shows that the owner must not check or simply go into her room. She was angry but she 

tried to control her temper. She talked to her nicely and then the owner never go into her 

room after all. Also, she has faced this problem from her roomate too. Her roomate has 

opened her letter without permission. She felt that this was a sign of disrespect of any way. 

So to be on the safe side, she has decided to buy a lock catch to lock her drawer and kept 

her valuables in it.

Survey

• For this survey, we have 10 answered in total.

  There are 61 respondents who answer our online survey question. The people who answer our question more than half of them are international and 29.51% are local. Base on our research , there are a very minimum local will rent a room in Singapore because Singapore is a small place and they can get home anytime just need less than 2 hours. But some of them also choose to rent a room because they found that it was waste their time to reach school or work and sometime they will late because of traffic jam .40 of them are people of age 11-20 and there are 16 people is around age 21-30.This is because of a lot of respondents are student and most of them are foreign students.They are compel to rent a room and most of them are living collectively.
  Out of 61 respondents with more than half of them are living collectively and they are living with more than 2 people in a room .The following 22.95% of respondents are living with a people and 19.67% are living with 2 people.The rental is usually divides equally of each people and it's means that the more of the people living in a room , the cheaper price to rent a room.They'd like to save some money especially student who don't have ability to pay a lot of rental and they will make a decision to live in student hostel. Besides, the workers that are low income will rent a house collectively with lower rental as well. The range of budget had been shown most of them will consider to rent a room that is less than 400.The following will be 400-500, 500-600 and more than 600. Its is very clear most of them are rent a room cheaper which is below 400 dollars according to they live with more people.
  The sixth question is about what kind of housemates that they prefer to live with.43 respondent are prefer to live with student .This is because of they will consider to live with some people that can match to their daily routine. Some worker they will just back home at night and they need to sleep early.So, some of the student they do their homework until midnight will disturb them. Besides, they have same topic that can talk to each other and easier to make friends. Out of 61 respondent, there are 33 of them prefer to live in cooperative and 28 of them prefer to live in condominium.The number of both is very close , but most of them live in cooperative.This is because of the rental is quite expensive without sharing room. Why they prefer to live condominium is because of they have enough privacy, space to do their own things and the most important is they don't have ability to pay the rental or they want to save some money on the other used.
  
  
  
•   Most of them will take the location of the house to their first considerate before renting. This is because most of them will rent a room that is nearby the working place or school. They can save the transport fee and they will have no to worry about traffic jam or waste their time on the way to work .They will a lot of people will consider the rental before renting a room and some of them consider the amenities.Question number 9 is asking about is they prefer to live with owner and the 47 of them do not prefer to live with owner. They will feel like controlled by the owner such as they are not allowed cooking in the house and cannot bring their friends come to their room, easy to conflict with owner and they will feels like no privacy at all.Some of them will prefer to live with owner is because of they can easy to consult with the owner about what they need in their room and there will be orderliness and clean.Sometime ,the owner are able to help you and solve some problem on repair something such as the light bulbs burned out quickly .
•      When question link to the last one, we asking about what is the most difficult thing they facing when living together with others.They think the communication is very important and difficult when you live with a stranger and they also worried about the different culture,country and different language in use will make the communication more difficult and sometime maybe misunderstanding each other. Some people they think there are lack of get along with the people and the house hygiene.
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Interview 2 -worker

      In order to find out more information, I interviewed my elder sister that living collectively with a stranger.Her name is Mart Yeok Chin , 23， female , chinese. She come from Malacca, Malaysia. The reason that make she chooses to living collectively with the others is to cut down the rental. The range of her budget to rent a room is below 650. Her rental before is SGD375 per person because of the room just have 2 person including my sister in the room. Now, she is living with the other 2 peoples in the room and rental is SGD300 per person. She will consider the environment first before renting a room.The most difficult thing she face when living collectively is space constraint. The space are very limited for her to place her things. She always consider to buy multi-functional furniture or folded furniture in their room. Besides , she also install the top hung cabinet in their room. Besides, she also design the position of the furniture in their room as she is a interior designer and she could use some software to plan it. The rental is including the utility bills so the owner just allowed them to turn on the air conditioner at night and set the time as 6 hours per day. Because of her roommates was interviewed by herself. She chat  with her roommate with is also come from Malaysia via social network before and know about her more information then tell the owner that her roommate'd like to rent the room . So she doesn't worried about living with her new roommate. She also found that her roommate is keep the room very clean and neat.She also share the housework with her roommate such as clean the bathroom and so on. Moreover, she is live with a family that have grandmother to grandson around 5 person in the house .She said that her owner is a very kind women that once she cook some dessert or soup , she will share with them .She very enjoy when living together with the family and sometime she will chitchat with the owner with her roommate.She think this is the most benefit of collective living to her.

interview-Student

In order to find out more information, I interviewed my friend that living collectively with a stranger.Her name is Chuang Jing Jie ,19， female ,chinese.She is a student which is study at Nanyang Academy of Fine Art. She is come from Malaysia , Johor Bahru. She rents a room in Toa Payoh Lorong 2 ,nearby Toa Payoh Mrt Station with a women that above 40 
years old. She compelled to choose this kind of living style in Singapore as she can afford the payment sharing the rental fees with her roommate. She is living with a women now and there will have 3 people living in a room in the future because of the owner will continue recruit 1 tenant in the room.The range of the budget to her for rent a room is within SGD300. Finally, she found this room with rental SGD300 within the budget and including the utility

bills.Before she rent a room, she will take the rental fee ,convenience , cleanness of the room under consideration.The most difficult thing that she face when living together is she cannot turn on the light until midnight. So that, she have prepared her own table lamp complete her works until midnight.This might be disturb her roommate but she cannot 

change the fact that she must finish her homework and submit on time.Besides,the other 

problem that she found that was very difficult when live together is because of her 

roommate is very sensitive to the sound. Sometimes,it's very hard to her to do the certain 

works as the little noise will be produced when she do the works, it will wake up her 

roommate when she do her works in the midnight. So that, she was forced to wake up early 

morning to carry on her works.She can talk to somebody and there will not alone when living together.On the other hand , they can share out the work such as clean up the room or

bathroom.She is live with the owner and she said that she is not prefer to live with the owner because most of the time the owner will pay the attention to her that whether checking of use too much of water & electric.She will feels like getting controlled by her owner.Overall, she is very satisfied with the collective living with the other and she said the more important

thing to live together will be tolerate each other.

Case study of Collective living in Japan

Japan's population as of February 2015, a total population of 126.97 million people，it become the first ten big country in the world's population. In the 20th century, due to Japan entered the industrialization society, reduced fertility, improve medical conditions; And Japan has always been to the immigration control is very strict, lead to Japan to become the world's one of the countries with high levels of population ageing , Japan is also one of the countries with the highest average life expectancy at the same time. Although the Japanese population has showed a trend of decline, but there are still very promote the idea of living collectively.

Kyodo no Mori (“Forest of Kyodo”)-

                                                                   Figure 1 - Kyodo no Mori (“Forest of Kyodo”)

      Located in the Setagawa district of Tokyo, Kyodo no Mori is a 12-unit, three story building located on a tiny, one fifth of an acre lot. The building features vine-covered balconies, solar-powered water pumping and solar heating, and a rooftop wetlands for graywater recycling.
On average, each unit is about 970 sq. ft. each. Most units are owned by residents, as opposed to rented. Shared space includes the outdoor space in the ground-floor courtyard, a second-floor terrace and a rooftop garden . This project, incidentally, was one of Japan’s first cooperative housing community.TOKYO.
“Then from around the beginning of the new century, realtors began offering space in unoccupied houses or refurbished company dormitories,” he continues. “One reason for the rapid increase is that people are getting married from a later age, or not marrying at all. After graduation from school, the time from which they start to make a family has been extended, and rather than spend a long period living alone, more young people are showing a preference to live with others.”The trend is borne out by figures from Hitsuji Fudosan, a realtor that carries the largest number of “share houses” on its site. From 25 in 2000, the number of listed houses rose to 982 in 2011.
    Experimentation is leading to new variations on the theme. In Shibuya, Tokyo, an artists’ colony called “Shibu House,” accommodates more than 20 individuals—about one third of who are female—in a 150 square meter 4LDK house. The mostly 20-ish residents have no private space at all and at night people just flop in the living room and “Some people don’t come home from work at night so there’s always enough room to sleep,” a 29-year-old resident relates. “Anyway the total cost for rent and utilities comes to about 800,000 yen per month, so split 20 ways, that’s only 40,000 yen per person. We’re planning to boost the number of residents to 32 from April, and that will bring the rent down to even less.”
Considering how expensive housing is in Japan, foreigners just off the boat tend to be surprised that there isn’t more communal living going on. 
The main appeal is economic, but the real draw is social, especially among women who don’t feel safe living by themselves in one-room apartments in the city. Share houses offer privacy with the option of interpersonal interaction. The model for this kind of living is Share Place Gotanno in Adachi Ward, Tokyo. Formerly a company dormitory (most share rooms are), the building has been converted by the Tokyo Electric-affiliated housing renovation company ReBita into 45 rooms centered around a living and dining area that is the equivalent in size to three households’ worth. Consequently, the kitchen has three large refrigerators. Each bedroom is the size of about seven tatami mats and includes an air conditioner, a bed, a desk, and a storage unit. The monthly rent is from ¥58,000 to ¥63,000, there’s a “management fee” of ¥13,500, and a ¥50,000 deposit (¥30,000 refundable) is required. There’s also a ¥36,000 “processing fee” and a one-time insurance fee of ¥8,000. Foreigners are welcome.
     In conclusion, the main reason of collective living is because of the population in Japan and they would like to save money. The people don't have ability to buy a house and they consider to living collectively with others to save more money. On the other hand , they are limited housing in Japan and some people especially young people are obliged to rent a house which is sharing a house with others then can cut down the rental. Besides, women who don’t feel safe living by themselves in one-room apartments in the city also choose collective living. Otherwise, In addition， any case Japanese landlords tend to frown on renting out properties to multiple persons if those persons are not married or otherwise related. But sometime the people live together and there have leadership roles may naturally exist in collective living. Although leadership roles may naturally exist in a co-housing community, no one person or persons have authority over others. Decisions are made by consensus.
     

bibliography
http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/more-young-people-try-communal-living-in-share-houses
http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/communal-living-isnt-just-for-foreigners-anymore/

problem of collective living

 

   Whats will going on when many people living in one space? The space must be crowded and slowly lead to limited of the space .The main problem of causing limited space must be the numbers of household exceed. When the number of people gather together , the furniture, ,household items, daily supplies and a lot of the fragmentary object will become a obstacle of a space. Besides, the size of the furniture is too large and unable to move because of the weight is too heavy.The limited space sometime was the psychological effect of the lighting and the painting of wall was too dark will make the whole space looks very narrow.Sometime the people don't like to share their things together and just buy same thing per each person, this will make a lot of thing cramming into a space.

  On the other hand, expense is also a problem that arise when live together.When we talking about money , it will be effects sensitive opinion between people. Collective living in a space can be sharing the space, food, stuff, housework even is money together. But sometimes it maybe overspend money . Who overused the electronic product and waste the water even waste foods?This answer can be everybody in the house.It means that perhaps it just a person uses too much of resources but everyone has to pay for it Nowasdays , peoples lack out of saving concept . Some people can just let the air conditioner turn on whole day long , they will not realized that will make the loss of electricity consumption . Without any rules, there have some solution save the much more conveniently. Firstly, they must be get into the habit of switch off the light before leaving the room. Besides,use the natural light during the day as far as possible. For instance, installing transparent windows or just open the window to allow the sunlight and fresh air come into room.This can be kills two birds with one stone which can save the light and decrease amount of the air conditioner usage.Use less as far as possible electronic products such as computers to save unnecessary cost .Choose some more power savings of electrical appliances . Adjusting the output of light which is sufficient to reduce power supply . Cutting off power supply of the TV and computer when not in use.Saving concept is the most important part to reduce the expense .This must be attach with cooperation of every one in the house.

Research of collective living space- bibliography

bibliography :

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/aug/17/housing-co-op-the-drive-living-collectively

This is a passage that talking about the collective living in Walthamstowand specify works to fix all of their problems .Besides, they also share their experience of living together with others.

http://psychcentral.com/lib/sharing-space-rooming-house-cooperative-or-collective/00012951

This website is describe some details about the collective living space.We comprehend about the problem very clearly on this website.



Magazine:

<CUBES August / September 2013>




<DCRS Decorations>

books:

<Living in a nutshell>

This book is suitable for the small space design.It was inspired me on how to DIY and recycle some useless thing such as tin , a table that will be discarded transform to different useful thing.This book was inspired me how to arrange and take full advantage of the space.




<Inspirational Homes>
All it really takes to create a stunning home is inspiration.Inspiration is a magical quality,a flash of insight that can come from anywhere. Simple, even unlikely objects like a translucent saree, a retro-look bathroom top or the impetus for a whole interior design theme or daring colour scheme.
This book was very inspired me to the design of our topic-collective living.Our main problem was the limited space as a lot of people living in a small space.Not all the homes featured in this book have been the work of design professionals.Creativity is not exclusive to interior designers. As the many exciting individual efforts here show, all our need is an unbridled imagination .

Empathising problem of collective living space

 

    What will happen when the peoples were came from different places at all levels, different races ,culture live together in the same environment? This is a challenge to them. The conflict is always arise in human relationship especially between people come from different culture and religion. The most closely related urban housing cooperatives. These models are often features simple living arrangements, often under one roof. This is possible, even more challenging to share a small building.

 Conflict is always arise between human relationship. Firstly, conflict cause of cultural and religion. For example , Malay people cannot eat pork , but some people they don't understand . They eat pork at home and cause the Malay housemate feel uncomfortable . Besides, the expense of house also bring conflict .They will share the electronic and water bill together evenly. Each people use the different electricity consumption .Some people maybe will not satisfied on it because they think this is very not fair and unbalance. They are need to use the toilet at the same time because of their working time crash each other , this will cause inconvenience and quarrel to fight to use the toilet. 

    In conclusion, this conflict will solved if they communication well each other and set the rule . Communication as "a body of people living in one place ,district ,or country" and the way that people interact to each other. People must tolerate to each other , this is the path to get along with each other.