How can we make our housing less heteronormative?

© Murielle Gerber / 2021 EPFL - An EPFL architecture student's radical new approach to the layout of typical city-center buildings in Lausanne, and how we inhabit the spaces we live in, may just revolutionize our ways of thinking. A washing machine as a living room's centerpiece. A walk-though closet that becomes a door - and doors that become mirrors. An open-air space on the roof for entertaining. A "communal kitchenless kitchen." Glazed facades that reveal the interiors of buildings, above all the basement. Welcome to the "queer" house - or at least one that's less heteronormative, as conceived by a young EPFL graduate in architecture. Let's face the facts: the ways in which our living spaces are arranged has not changed much for the best part of two centuries.