Ordinary Dystopia

What is ordinary architecture? It’s the everyday architecture around us—built to meet developers’ needs, often with no intention of being noticed, discussed, or remembered. It likely makes up 95% of our built environment.

In cities like Yerevan, where rough capitalism meets weak zoning and no urban vision, this can (and does) lead to disaster.

This object critiques “ordinary architecture,” imagining a dystopian, ultradense city built from real apartment plans—strange, illogical, often inhuman—where shopping malls are the only public spaces.