The project provides spaces to work and live in the context of the socialist realist perimeter block of Eisenhüttenstadt. It consists of a typological intervention re-organising the realms of work and life as well as of a co-operative framework utilising the spatial surplus of the context. Furthermore, it anticipates the move away from the steel production dominating the current labour relations. Beyond the undoubtedly problematic political status of socialist realism itself, its new towns in particular offer a unique urban concept providing resilient spaces to their inhabitants until the present day, whereas the perimeter block played a pivotal role navigating the different political demands and aspirations of its time. Although certain domestic tasks were socialised, the nuclear family established the unit around whom the block was build, ingraining the separation between productive and reproductive labour into the typology; as well as on a larger scale into the very fabric of the city. This split is thus challenged with a new hierarchy of spaces. Employing a co-operative framework, a shared extension re-introduces a collective aspect together with the collaboratively used pavilions and gardens. Thus, a monumental expression for today’s work and life is found, offering to build new models of familiality.