Architecture as a discipline is deeply involved in a constant material entanglement with a large number of entities. Yet across the discipline, nature-culture, subject- object distinctions are still being forcefully being held up, with the consequence of invasion of many territories, inhabited by other species and the destruction of their environments. In order to overcome such damaging differentiations, it is necessary to reconsider tour concepts of ontological hierarchies and their outcomes in architecture. This may allow us to create new affective environments, considerate of the constant set of relations that we find ourselves entangled in.

The thesis concerns itself with a comparison of the state for Community Land Trusts between Germany and England. England has over 200 of such projects to present and Germany only one, founded in 2021. This leads to the question for reasoning. By contextualizing the current situation within the field of an historical derivation and an investigation of legal frameworks and case studies, this paper enables the reader to gain a thorough understanding of the topic.