Client: Credit Access Asia (CAA)

In 2019, Svara Institute (formerly Presisi Indonesia) was hired by CAA to conduct study on co-living in Jakarta. At this point, CAA attempted to provide better services to the young professionals migrating to urban areas (in Indonesia and Philippines), via the provision of affordable co-living housing solutions co-living to provide innovative and affordable co-living solutions. This means a combination of accommodation plus shared ambience/utilities/services favoring social relationships). 

The accommodation of which was targeted to young professionals living in Asian metros, out of their original families houses and to overcome the problem related to the lack of (or constrained availability of) land in central areas of targeted metros, by re-engineering residential buildings by designing and “producing” modular buildings which can be sustainably be removed and re-allocated every 10-15 years, opening up the opportunity to position such buildings on long-leased lands.

The scope of research included studying the supply of similar concept inexistingmarket and identifying the demand of co-living.