Realism Working Group & Studio Commissioner Berlin

The Communal Villa in a Society of Syndicates, © Realism Working Group

Berlin-based initiatives dedicated to resisting displacement, rent hikes, and the loss of public space have become the clients of international architectural practices.

In a process of constructive dialogue, housing concepts are elaborated and realized as 1:1 models within the exhibition. Together with the Realism Working Group, Frankfurt am Main, and Florian Schmidt, studio commissioner at the Kulturwerk bbk berlin, the Brussels-based Dogma has reconfigured a bourgeois city villa into a communal house, which abandons the distinction between living and working spheres.