How to build a communal space

Communal Living, Lessons Learned

THE OPEN WORKSHOP developed the House of Commons exhibit “presenting over thirty-five case studies of past and present collective housing projects primarily in San Francisco and the Bay Area. In addition, THE OPEN WORKSHOP has developed five speculative designs informed by the lessons of the case studies that are represented through physical models and drawings. A prior iteration of the exhibition was featured at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.”  Even if you’re not developing communal housing the ideas presented may interest you because topics of interest to the developers included “the spatial structure and organization of shared households, the ways that sharing operates (what is shared, how much and by whom), and the mechanisms of collective governance and labor distribution.”

https://500cappstreet.org/house-of-commons/