A reflection on adaptive reuse and medieval typologies involving aspects of interiority, hortus conclusus and gender. We also discussed the theme of 'collectivity' as present in this specific typology of the beguinage and compared it with collective housing models of the second half the 20th century. In this case you see drawings that were made in the seminar of the beguinage of Lier in Flanders and Spreefeld in Berlin.