Our response to the design brief focuses on complete adaptability and flexibility of living space, not only through the period of one day but through many years.

In a conventional living space, all functions of the space exist together at the same time, despite rarely being used simultaneously. This is hugely inefficient in such a small living area as is defined in this brief.By reducing the functional objects requirements of a living space to simple repeatable units it is possible to create a frame through which any configuration of living can be achieved.

Objects take on a temporal role in the living space, being removed when unused and reintroduced when required. As such, one space can exist individually as an office, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom or a bedroom. This maximises the free area available at any time as only the objects in direct use occupy the space.

One living space forms a single box of 180 m3, and this can exist either as an individual unit or stacked into a community of units. The units sit back to back in floors of 4, and can stack to a height of 10 units.

Structural elements are contained within the walls of the units so they can be simply dropped on top of one another and fastened. As such, rather than building a whole block as one individual construction, the community of units grows slowly as more are purchased and added to the stack.

The units also have no restrictions to wider functions, for example a unit could be purchased in the middle of a stack and opened as a bar, gym or any other commercial use.