Project Type: Research text
Publisher: Danish Architectural Press
Curator and Editor: Building Diversity.
Year: 2025
Cluster F*ck to Cluster Love interrogates the reproductive tensions of the nuclear family floor plan and its exclusion of emergent forms of kinship. Through interviews with poly-parental families, co-living clusters, and single mothers navigating invisible domesticities, this essay questions whether the spatial topographies we consider to be contemporary are really accommodating the evolution of family or merely reproducing dated structures. Boyte argues that architecture—as an act of will and intention—must transgress conservative spatial norms to accommodate "clusters of love": fluid constellations bound by care rather than blood, law, or marriage. Drawing on projects like Something Fantastic's Constellations House and the radical adaptability of John Habraken's "build for change" principle, the work demands architects open to radical redesign of our stagnated domestic spatial system. In a moment of compounding housing crisis and demographic transformation, this is a blueprint for spatial thinking which expands rather than reduces our capacity to love.