Due to a dire shortage of affordable housing for a significant part of the population, the debate on social housing is gaining more and more importance in our country. Moreover, this sector increasingly has to take into account a growing diversity among the residents within its patrimony. A first point of departure for my master’s thesis therefore states the need to prevent or mitigate the problems arising from social, ethnic and cultural differences. Due to the high need for affordable housing, a second starting point was to look at how social housing companies can experiment with communal facilities which we find in cooperatives, cohousing and other alternative housing models. With these two contexts in mind, the aim of the thesis was defined as 'exploring socio-spatial architectural design strategies in the design of spaces of collectivity’, in order to deal with the ethnic-cultural mix in social housing. The thesis came about as part of the masterclass 'Diversity in Social Housing' of the transdisciplinary platform 'De Stadsacademie, where professors, students and experts share knowledge about urban, sociological and/or climatic questions in the city of Ghent.