rC1 non-norMaTiVe arChiTeCTure

Students: Jiaying Chu,Kexin li, Mingyuan li

Design: Hadin Charbel and Déborah López Lobato

Technical: Zehao Quin and Vicente Sánchez

Theory: Albert Brenchat - Aguilar

Non-Normative Architecture begins with ‘Helmet House’, a house designed around the averaging of people’s preferences and expectations of a common house in Sweden. The project aims to challenge the limitations of user input, wants and desires as being reduced to a common design, and instead embrace heterogeneity, challenging normative ideas of living in an era of new routines and habits. The Carpenters’ Estate is taken as a case study where residents are under threat of being forcefully relocated by the government under new development plans. Proposing an active form of resistance and self-preservation, Non-Normative architecture evolves as a counter-offer and a platform for negotiation between community members and local authorities. Through material reclamation and quadratic voting residents are enabled to personalise their new houses in a gamified process, satisfying individual and shared needs that challenges current community housing typologies.