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Stories About Multi-Location Living

Translated from Korean
Multi-base Living

  1. While having lunch and listening to DBR Issue 332 on Willa, I learned about ADDress, a Japanese multi-location co-living company. This is exactly the regional hub project I want to do!! multi-living

  2. I know Mangrove is doing co-living developer projects in Korea, but after visiting their new location exhibition, it felt much smaller than expected and slightly different from my ideal vision. I haven't researched further yet, but couldn't a model like ADDress work well in Korea too? I should look into it carefully and think it over.

  3. There's a series covered in Monthly Design about co-living, so I saved it to read later.

  4. Regardless of COVID, the reason multi-location living became a trend in Japan was undoubtedly the Great East Japan Earthquake. A disaster that struck everyone is significantly changing people's minds. How will Japan change?

> "Looking at the various aspects of multi-location living being tried in Japan, it seems the concept of 'returning to the countryside' we have been greatly influenced by the idea of digital nomads—that is, the notion that advances in communication technology allow people to work without being tied to a specific location. Since you don't have to be tied to a place, is there really a need to insist on making a huge city like Tokyo your permanent home base? That's how multi-location living emerged. Simply put, it involves establishing another home (base) in rural areas or elsewhere outside one's primary residence. It goes beyond merely acquiring a house; it seeks to build another foundation for life at the new base through productive activities and human interaction. And then, another catalyst emerged: the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, which shook Japan to its core."

  1. Unlike trends like vacation homes, second homes, or the "5-day city, 2-day countryside" lifestyle, this movement could potentially offer a solution to the social problem of vacant houses. Interactive article on vacant houses from Sisain

  2. If no one else in Korea is doing it, I want to do it myself…