Cohousing-L Mailing List: Sharing Facilities Regulations: cohousing, condominium and more

[phidiasdavide-cohousing (phidiasdavide-cohousing]

Hello guys! I'm really interested in community living and I lived some
months this way in Arizona, Arcosanti. Now I'm back in Italy attending a MSc 
about
sustainable architecture, and for my final thesis I'm researching about
the potential of reduction of energy consumption in the residential
sector, in particular by changing lifestyle and sharing spaces (meeting
room,guest room, etc) and appliances (washingmachine, computers, etc).

I'm wondering about building code all over the world, if there are national or 
local rules that foster to project in this way (e.g.common
laundry compulsory, or no urbanistic volume for shared services,
cohousing incentives, etc), or anyway if it is used in common practice
to build shared facilities (e.g. condominium sauna in Finland).

Thanks for any suggestion!! Davide