Dubai Coliving Concept

The Satwa Coliving project will be the Dubai’s largest co-living space and will form a new hub for urban professionals close to DIFC and Downtown.

The PLP design for this unprecedented building creates a new hybrid typology, redefining the architecture of living and working to suit the unique community of people that will develop here. The project reinvents collective living for today, laminating together a series of complimentary programs and atmospheres to form a strategy for the future of housing.

The provision of housing in Dubai for younger professionals is very limited and the challenge is to reinvigorate tired typologies and create a building which responds to the multitude of needs and networks of city dwellers.

The building takes the form of two volumes in an “L” and focused on a central core. This central hub increases opportunities for interaction between residents and makes circulation between floors as simple as possible. A series of unique amenity spaces fills the central hub and ground floor, each designed to appeal to millennials and to be used by all the building’s residents. A games room, spa, secret garden, cinema, library, and disco launderette, many of which are directly connected to adjacent communal kitchen, which offer facilities above the kitchens in individual units. A key element of the design is the interface of the communal areas with the active street frontage and close connections to the surroundings.