Old Athenian Houses, ‘House As A Machine For Communal Life’ examines types of anonymous architecture and transforms them in new paradigms, challenging their limits and connecting tradition and modernism. Ιt puts the focus back on the human user, daily routines, improvisation and compositional freedom, collective life and public space. It engages with the question of how to appropriate a given shell, focusing on combinations of rule & exception, normal & eccentric, rejecting traditional notions of scale and promoting density and multifunctionality. It tests how to structure a house around communal, rather than individual life.