Life becomes a service

Living-as-a-Service

The next trend is living-as-a-service. More than 500 serviced apartments for business travellers, trade fair visitors, project staff and consultants are being built according to this concept in Munich in particular. The target group are visitors who are new to the city and have to bridge the time until they can move into their own accommodation, or simply spend a few weeks or months there. The serviced apartments are intended to offer them more comfort and flexibility at significantly lower costs as the perfect alternative to the classic hotel.

An »open Lobby 2.0« is surrounded not only by a coffee shop, pizza oven and 24-hour supermarket, but also e-bike rental, co-working area, launderette, work-out area, cocktail bar and a food area. The operator also wants to organise concerts, theatre and other events so that the residents no longer have to leave the house.

But the beautiful new sharing world has long since shown its dark side. Because if, according to the old-fashioned rule, »ownership obliges«, then the obligation has also expired with the rental period today. Then the bicycle is parked somewhere and unused rental bikes are thrown into pools or knotted into bizarre works of art. In many cities, thousands of bikes, some of them broken, which the platform operator from the Far East no longer takes care of, are a real nuisance. And car-sharing offers are not only used by business travellers or green-alternative big-city families who otherwise cycle around. Powerful models of the noble brands are preferably rented as a car-sharing model for road races in order to really accelerate on the Kudamm.

1. Life becomes a service
2. Living-as-a-Service