A Prototype for Mutable Domesticity
Yunan Wei
2025
Together Towards reimagines housing as a temporal and adaptive process, rather than a static form. This multi-family housing prototype serves as a statement that challenges traditional domestic conventions by introducing a modular architecture that evolves with its inhabitants. Anchored by a central communal spine—a monolithic core containing fixed kitchens, bathrooms, and circulation—each living unit begins as a minimal module, expanding outward over time. Influenced by projects such as Takk’s The Day After House and Shigeru Ban’s Naked House, the design incorporates undefined intermediary zones between the core and the facade filled with movable modules to support collective and individual growth. These raw, unconditioned spaces blur the boundary between public and private, encouraging residents to actively shape their environment. The result is a housing system that grows, contracts, and regenerates based on shifting needs and social dynamics. Site-less and scalable, Together Towards presents a vision of home as a living, shared construct—mutable, communal, and continuously unfolding.