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Airbnb launches innovation and design studio as it makes foray into urban planning

on Aug 3, 2016 | 0 comments

By Natalie Mortimer

Yoshino Cedar House

Airbnb has created a new innovation and design company to support its sharing community, which has already begun it’s work with the design and build of a community centre in Tokyo to merge the local community with Airbnb guests.

Called Samara, the division will bring together design and engineering experts from Airbnb to create new ideas and will encompass architecture, product design, software engineering, and new economic models.

The first project from Samara is the Yoshino Cedar House, a centre created in collaboration with Go Hasegawa, a Tokyo-based architect, to explore how architectural features can forge a deeper relationship between hosts and Read full story ›

Source: The Drum