Communal spaces in residential buildings

After a lot of thoughts about what I would like to analyse more deeply, I finally decided what topic I would like to present. It's something very near to my previous and current architecture studies. Something that should guide every architecture, today and that, too frequently, is omitted.

Communal spaces in residential buildings: relating people through a designed space

"The dance" by Henri Matisse, 1909-1910

SOURCE: http://www.camminandoscalzi.it/wordpress/uomo-cielo-terra-la-danza-di-henri-matisse-2.html

To introduce this topic, first of all I'm going to introduce what is generally recognized as a communal space: Town Squares