This semester, the studio addresses forms of housing that depart from the normative family model, centered on a nuclear, heterosexual couple with biological children and a gender-segregated division of labor. In Berlin, 83% of all households consist of one or two people. Responding to this, the studio designs for the full spectrum of non-normative dwelling: people living alone or raising children alone, households shaped by aging, disability, or care, queer and trans kinship, chosen and blended families, relationships of more than two, and cohabitation across generations or between friends and strangers.

Students are asked to resist “family-shaped” defaults, such as a private kitchen per unit, a bedroom-per-couple logic, or a living room sized for a nuclear group. Instead, they design from the actual labor, privacy, and care needs of future residents.

The schemes will be tested on the so-called “LSD-Haus” in Berlin-Schöneberg, a largely vacant office building facing likely demolition. The studio treats it not as an obstacle to be erased but as a set of latent conditions to work with: deep floor plates, repetitive structural grids, oversized cores, an absence of domesticity, and its controversial neighbourhood. The studio explores how a structure built for waged labor might be transformed into one for living-with-others. 

By bringing these two questions together, the studio treats the transformation of existing building stock and the transformation of domestic life as one project. The ways people actually live together become the starting point for design rather than an exception to it.

Betreuung: Prof. Ana Filipovic. L.A Mascha Fehse, T.T. Quirin Grubert
Mittwoch 10:00-12:00 und 13:00-17:00, R236
Erstes Treffen am 14.10 um 11:00 (Ortsbesichtigung) 

BA Modul 13, MA Modul 01/04
Max. 28 Studierende, Anmeldung per Moodle