Lucas Almássy
The project does not romanticize collectivity as seamless harmony. Instead, it frames inconvenience as architectural agency: a mechanism for challenging the privatization of everyday life and reimagining housing as an infrastructure for encounter, negotiation, irritation, and communion. Against the contemporary apartment’s emphasis on privacy, autonomy, and convenience, the project asks whether architecture can produce a more collective form of life by designing friction, exposure, and dependency into the everyday.
The central operation is the removal of domestic functions from the private unit. Apartments are reduced to bedrooms and closets, while kitchens, bathrooms, and showers are relocated into shared collective zones. Cooking, bathing, storage, and circulation become social events rather than private services. Even the closet becomes a glass-fronted display facing the corridor, turning personal identity into part of the building’s shared interior life.