The project is concerned with the politics of architecture and its agency in everyday life.

It addresses the subject of housing in relation to the individualized society of the 21st century and uses the work of the French architect Jean Renaudie (1925–1981) as a laboratory.

The increasing dissolution of existing social norms related to gender and the family, the rise of Airbnb, an aging population, and a shortage of affordable housing are some of theconditions that have contributed to the radical individualization of life in the 21st century. There is also a growing awareness of the value of nature in urban life, as well as the importance of enhancing biodiversity in and around cities. Yet housing design fails to make provision for them.

How are we to choose between a generic option, for example Haussmann’s flexible floor plate, which provides for change, and a particularized option, which, like Renaudie, begins with the premise that design for contemporary society has to provide for diversity?

What kinds of shared spaces and functions should we incorporate in a complex of dwellings to foster creativity in the bonds and alliances which are formed between the residents?