The Para-Nominal (e)State explores contemporary ideas of value which have become blurred as the digital realm continues to impact the physical one. The project asks how might an alternative digital valuation system create new commodities, typologies, and emergent programmes in the domestic homestead?

Responding to London’s housing crisis, a new kind of dwelling is prototyped within the Barking Riverside masterplan, designed to shape the value of Barking and Dagenham’s housing stock, currently London’s lowest. Accepting that the borough has failed to benefit from the physical value system, the design speculates how it might become the most digitally valuable.

The proposal is a 19 unit residential scheme with a corner shop, bin store and courtyard. A universal digital overlay is designed, offering a different perspective of the digital home, unrestricted by screens, giving residents new ways of shaping their home and community.

The design culminates in a documentary, which questions what housing and communities could become if built following a digital logic, and what new typologies and behaviours might emerge through para-nominal translations between the digital and the physical.