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Type Dissolution 5: Sectional Axonometric

Site Section: Buildings A + B

Type Dissolution 5: Fifth Floor 1:20 Plan

Little Napier Street Precinct: Proposed Site Axonometric

Building B: Fifth Floor Shared Space

Book One: Thesis

Village for the Mother/Death of the Single Family House

The point of departure for this thesis is through an engagement with a specific and highly complex architectural typology - the single family house. This architectural schema and accompanying written work is concerned with the role played by the house in the institutionalisation of reproductive labour and the employment of architectural type as apparatus to the perpetuation of social and biological diagramming. By identifying domestic spatial type - and by extension, human type - as endemic to the patriarchal structures of industrial capitalism, this work proposes that both the fields of architectural inquiry and the continuing feminist project must engage with a matricentric reading of contemporary spatiality.