Psychological and emotional effects will be the most important aspects of the architecture in the new society. The sensual and poetic qualities of the unfinished, the oblique, the colourful, the improvised will be commonly understood and appreciated. As a consequence of this, the structure and the practical functions of buildings and other constructions will be considered as secondary. And this is not unimportant as they will be built, rebuilt, and extended all the time, because the architecture will be continuously adapted to the dreams and desires unfolding among the inhabitants. The surroundings will be as dynamic as the dreamwork. It will be a simple matter of the physical environment being transformed according to the flowing desire of social forces. The architecture will not be just a static shell to inhabit, but it is will be an integrated and flexible part of daily life and its rhythms.

Sensual Manias
In the space community there will be room and space for the wide range of sensual manias continuously cultivated by the inhabitants. Sensual manias are certain bizarre habits of a material or spiritual nature. Manias that on Earth are rare and cultivated by fewer than 1 in 810 persons will be common activities in the space community and mix with the already widespread sensual manias. Even an inventory of half of the manias in the new community would fill a whole CD-ROM and would never be complete anyway because new manias are constantly emerging in a process of fusion and empathy. Some of the manias seem quite everyday, others are more specialised. For example the following, which is of the hybrid kind - material and spiritual at the same time: It was practised by one of the first arriving inhabitants who in several months was wooing a very beautiful woman. He helped her going to bed, covering her with the duvet and nestling her. The desired reward for his loving care was that he sat down at the end of the bed and scratched her feet. In several months these two individuals - the foot scratcher and the beautiful woman - enjoyed a highly concrete joy by practising this sensual mania, and it is at this point appropriate to repeat this principle: What makes people happy without hurting anyone will always be a good thing. This will be generally accepted in the new society, because it is of importance to vary the psychological and emotional intensities indefinitely. In stead of making fun of the various manias as happens on Earth we must carefully cultivate them and organise them into groups.

If we are to develop an organisation of physical space which takes into account the manias and their peculiarities we must buildand produce space in a way so as not to neutralise them and their multifarious ways. A variety must be created in physical space, which mirrors the various temperatures, moments of drama and psychic tension of the manias. An architecture must be developed that amplifies their effects and aids their development. Spaces will emerge for the pink colour addict, the enumeration fetishist, the cabbage lover, the hypochondriac, the low frequency maniac, the filth eater and so on.

The labyrinths
This sensitivity towards the manias will mix with all the other intentions and dreams which are channelled into the architecture. The houses, the homes, the halls, the workshops, the caves, the pavilions are constructed in various and compound ways, especially because there will be no specialised architects controlling things. Regardless of their qualifications most of the inhabitants will contribute to the construction work; they are themselves taking part in the creation of the surroundings they live in. As an intrinsic consequence of this labyrinths will be mushrooming here and there on the space station. For example there are two labyrinth houses under construction near one of the large kitchens. One of them is big, the other a little smaller. They are both experimental zones for the investigation and development of the liberating forces of architectural confusion. The two labyrinth houses are formed from a vast amount of different rooms, spiral staircases, discrete corners, undefined areas, meandering corridors, dead ends. When groups or individuals enter one of the labyrinth houses they experiment and explore their way through the rooms. You pass through a silenced room whose walls are covered with sound absorbing material; a room with deafening noise; an echo room with electronically produced echoes; a room for reflection and experiments with psychic resonance; a room for abstract fantasies about the life to come, a room for erotic improvisation; a room for incidental situations; etc. A prolonged stay in the labyrinth houses will have a refreshing and brainwashing effect and will often be used to erase deeply rooted habits.

Labyrinths don't just emerge indoors in houses. Vast outdoor labyrinths criss-crossing the gardens will continuously be expanding. Some labyrinths combine indoor and outdoor environments; by that it is possible to create sudden changes of mood from small enclosed spaces to large open and indefinite spaces. However, most of the architecture on the space station will have labyrinthine character and sometimes it will be difficult to make out whether you are in a labyrinth or not.

Disorientation
When, under capitalist command on Earth, we by all means strive after maximum geographical and spatial orientation as a kind of guarantee for effective use of time and economy, disorientation will in the new society be of the highest priority. Disorientation furthers exploration, play and change. On Earth the physical environment is organised in a self-evident way making it possible to function and move rationally and efficiently: detours, dead ends and other disruptions are conceived as waste of time. On the space station it will, of course, be a matter of levels of disorientation and the labyrinths will function as amplifiers which make sure that the general degree of disorientation always has the highest possible level.

Disorientation makes the environment into something which it is not just a matter of travelling over. When you are disorientated and thus don't know where you are, you can be more open and receptive to the landscapes and social situations you happen to be in. There will, in this way, not be any general order that proves a position or a place. You can just as well direct your attention to the place you are in, the things which are unfolding around you and the spaces travelled through. The environments can be explored as they appear as you go. New social relations will emerge as you meet other people on explorations; people who don't know where they are as well and don't worry about it. Most of the inhabitants on the space station have lost any notion of 'familiar settings' and do not miss them - the attention is directed towards the yet unknown; what's underneath, what could occur in the next second. The labyrinths make sure that situations are created that are characterised by presence and attention towards the social and sensual potentials and the spatial and emotional qualities imbedded in the environment. Life in the new society cannot become too disorientated.

Charles Fourier, Constant Nieuwenheuys, Jakob Jakobsen, et. al. (1808 - )