Seeking community is a desire embedded in most of us. We long for spaces of expression, mutuality, respect, and authenticity. Western practices based on expansion, extraction, and individualism have only propelled our desire for community as we lose sight of each other. Even in a world built on division, isolation, and rejection, historically marginalized community members continue to seek one another out time and time again.

Community-based efforts are at the forefront of environmental, social, and economic justice movements that are all interconnected within larger systemic structures. Indigenous Peoples around the world persist in navigating the ever-changing world through practices, philosophies, and relationships rooted in reciprocity with the land, non-human beings, and each other. The abundance of knowledge sharing, storytelling, and collective care Indigenous Peoples continue to remedy within colonial structures of violence, oppression, and injustice is indicative of resistance movements everywhere.

Paying homage to 2SLGBTQIA+ HOUSE cultures formed in response to Western exclusionary practices, this thesis proposes a new housing typology as a dynamic, living entity that embodies a sense of belonging for all beings, both human and non-human. It offers endless adaptable possibilities that change over time, seasonally, and with the communities that inhabit it at various moments. The project offers an architectural practice expressing gratitude to the land and enabling us to foster a world built on mutual responsibility, participation, and exchange within the collective power of coexistence.