Party Wall Common

Party Wall Common examines the concept of ownership, as well as the challenges pertaining to our disconnection from one another and our environment, by exploring the legal and spatial conversion of party walls typical of row house typology into a common ground. In such a common ground, neither the public nor the private “governs;” rather, a multitude of interactions generated by a collective body embracing a field of changing configurations, by which the duality of “I” versus “they” is permeated by a third entity: the “we.”

The notion of “we” is the legal and spatial materialization of a common ground in which a collective embraces a form of ownership that is devoid of exploitation and is committed for the long term, that centers around social equity and care for the environment, while sharing both material and immaterial resources by means of inhabiting Party Wall Common.