K. a. a. s. (Communal colony of urban cohabitation) is a project that suggests the conversion of an old department store building into a collective housing hub.

The current model of urban housing in Greece is amid a crisis. As a result, alternative ways of inhabiting apartments have emerged, such as sharing or subleasing a flat. Having defined the problems of living in personal apartments, we tried to develop an example that solves the aforementioned problems but also suggests a new and different model of urban dwelling, based on the following characteristics; augmented shared spaces opposed to smaller personal space, activation of the entirety of the given space, the inhabitants are able to form their common environment according to their needs, simultaneous use of the whole infrastructure by everyone.

K. a. a. s.  is not only about housing though. It enriches and diversifies public space around the area it occupies and is hoping to set the scene for an alternative, bottom-up development of a neglected neighborhood of Volos.

The goal of this project is to provoke the sense of equality, cooperation and solidarity between the inhabitants so that they form a new model of social life that opposes to the current individuality and alienation.