Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: sharing technologies like Uber and Airbnb could offer the answer to the UK housing crisis say the curators of the British Pavilion, who have unveiled five futuristic models of the home.
For their Venice Biennale exhibition Home Economics, curators Jack Self, Shumi Bose and Finn Williams have called for architects to look beyond housing typologies, and to instead develop new financial models for housing.
The first room in the pavilion focuses on looking at the home in terms of hours
They claim that collective ownership models ? where people share the financial burdens of domestic life ? is one solution, and could result in homes that are more affordable and more efficient.
"The impossibility of ownership for a huge swathe of society is forcing us to accept different kinds of relationships in terms of sharing," Williams told Dezeen during an exclusive tour of the pavilion. Featuring a huge transparent wardrobe filled with items ranging from vacuum cleaners to clothing and artworks, the room questions what items people would be willing to share
"We don't have a wealth shortage in the UK, and we don't have a shortage of materials like they did after the war," added Self. "We have everything we need, it's just very badly distributed."

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