Student Housing, temporary residences and co-working are the new ways that interpret, with very significant growth trends, the new needs related to contemporary living, working and moving around. To be satisfied, they require a new commitment and the ability to equip themselves with modern, current and flexible tools, where the use of georeferenced data and data analytics will play a fundamental role. (PWC Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2019)

Opportunity

Le student residences (student housing) constitute an important lever for real estate development and urban redevelopment in Italy, assuming an increasingly central role in the growth strategies, also from a "smart" perspective, of cities, private operators, and real estate investors.

In particular, the new emerging formats, which combine the integration of residential, hotel and co-working, increase the strategic role of university residences:

• in the growth of complementary urban functions;
• in the specialization of services as a critical success factor of the Smart City.

Also from the point of view of theattractiveness of resources and human capital for the City, the new formats of residences are of great interest, addressing, in addition to students, increasingly also professional workers and young entrepreneurs looking for a temporary use of housing.

The problem

Le Città dovranno increasingly compete with each other to attract investments, resources and talents.

Gli studenti costituiscono pertanto un importante paradigma per comprendere e accrescere la capacità di Turin di essere “Smart”, e di rispondere alle nuove esigenze legate alla mobility of students, the sharing of functions, and the flexibility of use of both private and public spaces.

Student housing, temporary residences e co-working sono le nuove modalità che interpretano, con trend di crescita molto significativi, tali nuove esigenze, che per essere soddisfatte richiedono però la capacità di dotarsi di strumenti moderni, attuali e flessibili, dove l’utilizzo dei dati georeferenziati e dei data analytics giocherà un ruolo fondamentale. (PWC Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2019)

Proposal

A student-friendly location intelligence platform for Turin

In this perspective, starting from the implementation of the location intelligence and collection and analysis platform of georeferenced Big Data by Colouree (www.colouree.com), the experimentation in Turin of:

• an innovative web platform for analyzing the built spaces of the City starting from the specific needs of each student, able to dialogue with the tools and datasets of the City for the governance of services and urban security.

The experimentation will implement the Colouree web platform, and in particular the algorithms for analyzing the urban morphology and interoperability of geo-referenced big data, for:

• being able to return, through search tools and interactive web maps, the characteristics of any place in the city with respect to the individual needs and lifestyles of each user/student.

These needs can be described starting from the choice of parameters such as travel times from data points, presence of points of interest, accessibility and proximity to selected types of services or activities; up to the definition of parameters related to safety and environmental quality.