A significant aspect of purpose built private rented property designed to cater for a large and diverse community with variable (and sometimes very high) rates of turnover will be the opportunity to create social interaction in a variety of ways – a ‘collegiate’ feel to the environment.
Communal facilities such as gym or pool, entertainment or business suites, function rooms are common in North America. The Barbican complex provides a useful precedent in the London Context, with resident only landscaped space where parents and children can interact, but also with a very wide range of social and leisure services from playgroup to secondary school, libraries, theatre and cinema.
The Barbican is undoubtedly a high quality social melting pot that serves a very wide demographic range extremely well.
Product elements...
- Economy of scale for very highly serviced management
- Wide range and diversity in apartment and room sizes
- Bookable extra space, easy down sizing
- Big enough to enable wide variety and choice
- High quality local service offer
- Superoccupancy
- Speed-sharing brokered flat-share service; meet and swap online
- Design for occasional as well as long term use
- Added value services;
- furnishing
- refurb and decoration
- intranet
- porterage
- bike and car rental
- furnishing
- refurb and decoration
- intranet
- porterage
- bike and car rental