The word Matriarchy is incorrectly defined as it does not oppose the uneven power dynamic of a patriarchy, but rather replaces the variables of those who are on top or bottom. To truthfully oppose this dynamic, a redefinition of a matriarchy must reflect a flattening of power that is fully egalitarian. My project spatializes this issue through investigating a design rhetoric that reflects a matriarchal architecture. The private suburban house sets the stage for the effective sexual division of labor epitomized with conformity in consumption and an isolation from shared goods and community services. The over privatization of goods and wastefulness in excess found itself coupled with implicit and also explicit sexist ideals that penetrated the design sphere as a result of commercial demand.

In drawing iterations of floor plans, I arrived at a set of rules to organize space: an abandonment of sequential hierarchy, agency to owner to create privacy, open access, and even distribution of natural light to all spaces. In prioritizing the equal attention given to spaces that have been abstracted down to their pragmatic function, the social hierarchy of spaces can be broken down and shifted to reflect the occupants social comfortability, not enforce a set.

In removing the unnecessary commodification of domestic services inside of the home, the responsibilities of domestic service can be shared in the forms of a daycare, laundry, and community kitchen. Through using the domestic sphere, one can retain a more egalitarian understanding of space and access, a tool to undo the greater uneven and therefor gendered power dynamics.