”det är ju inte planerat för att man ska bo på det sättet...”: hur kollektiva hushåll påverkas av arkitekturens materialiserade normer

Sammanfattning: Architecture can be described as the built variant of culture, and the architecture of the dwelling is particularly affected by norms and assumptions that regulate the way we live and whom we live with. Only 0.05% of dwellings in Sweden are built for collective households and it is therefore worth investigating how they are are affected by a built environment that is not built in consideration of them. Through qualitative interviews and observations this paper investigates the dissonance between normative architecture and non-normative households. The material-discursive relationship between the body and architecture is investigated through posthumanist theory to understand how norms are materialized in human and non-human matter. The purpose is not to find universal definitions of architectural composition that would serve all collective households, but to investigate how architecture can affect and be perceived by people in their every day lives. The thesis demonstrates the power that heteronormative ideals and values have over the organisation and structure of dwellings, and that this in turn affects how the collective reside within their home.