Today, the home has become one of the most desired yet unstable commodities, moving beyond its symbolic form. Once believed to be a haven, providing an escape from the social world of production, the typology of the house has failed, within neoliberal economies, to cater to the needs of the individual. Instead, what has often been promoted is the fundamental figure of the “universal man, user, and citizen,” subjected to the dominant, heteronormative terms of existence. Protocols for Individualism aim to propose alternatives to traditional forms of home ownership to critique existing cooperative schemes as an act of political and social imagination where the idea of the self prevails. Reconsidering the idea of cooperativism, the protocols define the form of self-proclaimed, queer communities’ homes, responding to every step of their occupation. Specifically, these micro-legislative constructions make uninhabited buildings’ permanent and temporary occupancy possible, managed by municipal authorities. The thesis centers in Montreux, taking a vacant 20th century apartment building as a paradigmatic case, to explore the implementation of these constructions, their possibilities, and the tensions they may produce between the “I” and the “We.” Architecturally, a system of strips is used to internally organise these “remains” of the city, each functioning for the individual and the collective. The protocols acknowledge that human relationships are in constant flux and contemporary family structures are diverse, allowing the inhabitants to reconfigure their homes over time. Drawing from queer theory and Absalon’s “Cells,” the thesis argues that it is only when withdrawal is possible that we are capable of living among others.