Parallel use
The parallel use of spaces describes an urban planning instrument that aims to increase the utilization or use of spaces in urban areas that are only used temporarily .
In urban conurbations in particular, rooms are only used by users at certain (opening) times because they have no further use outside of their own hours of use or no personnel capacities for full use. These rooms are currently used inefficiently, while at the same time people with new ideas hardly find opportunities to implement them in affordable space.
One possible solution to this problem is the joint, flexible use (parallel use) of rooms that were previously only used temporarily, which can be implemented with little investment. In this way, existing rooms can also be used by complementary concepts outside of the previous usage times. Newly built rooms can also be used or rented jointly by several users from the outset.
In contrast to interim use , parallel use is about medium to long-term partnerships in which various uses are to be integrated as best as possible into the premises and structures of a main operator. For example, a breakfast cafe can offer its premises to a bar concept in the evening and vice versa. Many combinations are possible here.
Parallel uses must be negotiated between different groups of actors. This happens either directly in personal contact or with the support of municipalities or private companies such as the Munich startup Shquared as an intermediary. Overall, parallel use should be about establishing good long-term projects in one place.
The strength of parallel use lies in its symbiotic character for the main user, the parallel users and the urban environment. The main users, such as shop and restaurant owners, share their available space at times when they would have been closed, for example receive a share of the turnover or rent and are relieved of financial burdens. For the parallel users, parallel uses represent a strategy for realizing their ideas. New founders and restaurateurs can try out their ideas with low risk and little effort.
Particularly in cities with high usage pressure, existing rooms and resources can be used more efficiently through parallel use ; at the same time, the diversity and quality of life in urban areas is increased through new, different concepts .
literature
- Viktoria Molnar: Parallel use “There is space for subcultures, we just have to use it” In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 22, 2019, ISSN 0174-4917
- Reallabor Space Sharing, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart (2018): One Space Fits All - Space Sharing Report, field report and recommendations from two years of operational experience of the Reallabor Space Sharing pilot project, Stuttgart 2018, 72 pages, ISBN 978-3-942144 -59-9 ,
- Achim Schröder: Multiple: Use - Multiple use and space sharing as a strategy for sustainable urban development. In: Dietrich Henckel, Caroline Kramer (ed.): Zeitgerechte Stadt: Concepts and perspectives for planning practice, research reports of ARL 09, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-88838-088-4 , pp. 204–222.