Living together.
(2025) AAHM10 20251Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- This thesis investigates multigenerational living as
an architectural response to contemporary social
fragmentation and urban isolation, offering an
alternative model of dwelling grounded in collective
domestic life. Drawing from personal experiences of
growing up partly within an extended family, the work is
motivated by these factors: intergenerational bonds, the
timeless human tendency toward communal living, and
the emotional richness embedded in ordinary, shared
moments. Rather than proposing multigenerational
housing as a universal ideal or a competing typology, the
thesis positions itself as a flexible and inclusive option -
one that can adapt to diverse society, culture, and needs
of the family.
Set in... (More) - This thesis investigates multigenerational living as
an architectural response to contemporary social
fragmentation and urban isolation, offering an
alternative model of dwelling grounded in collective
domestic life. Drawing from personal experiences of
growing up partly within an extended family, the work is
motivated by these factors: intergenerational bonds, the
timeless human tendency toward communal living, and
the emotional richness embedded in ordinary, shared
moments. Rather than proposing multigenerational
housing as a universal ideal or a competing typology, the
thesis positions itself as a flexible and inclusive option -
one that can adapt to diverse society, culture, and needs
of the family.
Set in Malmö, Sweden, the project takes shape as a
fill-in intervention within the existing urban fabric. At
its core is a modular grid system that enables spatial
adaptability: varying unit configurations accommodate
a wide range of family constellations, from simple
structures to extended kin networks, but also the ones
not even suggested - as the spatial possibilities are
infinitely expandable. This architectural strategy seeks
for a solution to key tensions in multigenerational living
- such as privacy versus togetherness, autonomy versus
obligation, and permanence versus change - by offering
both structural clarity and functional flexibility. Through
theoretical research and design experimentation,
the thesis explores how architecture can support not
just coexistence, but meaningful intergenerational
relationships across time. It asks: what kind of domestic
framework allows us not only to live together, but to
grow together? (Less)
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http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9197122
- author
- Sioch, Mateusz LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Multigenerational living typology in Malmö.
- course
- AAHM10 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Multigenerational, Intergenerational, Malmö, Typology, Housing, Dwelling, Apartment, Family, In-fill, Integration, Collective, Grid, Social, Variety
- language
- English
- id
- 9197122
- date added to LUP
- 2025-06-11 15:27:43
- date last changed
- 2025-06-11 15:28:38
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