Inhabit

The prompt called for a three bedroom house, confined to a 324 sq ft perimeter, elevated 10 ft above the ground, with no penetrations on the outermost walls, and only accessible from below. The structure is only one of an entire grid of adjacent lots with the same restrictions, creating a floating urban fabric similar to Yona Friedman’s Spatial City or Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon.

To optimize the livable area within such tight limitations, the stair circulation and utility spaces are pushed to the perimeter, leaving an open floor plan where communal activities revolve around a main table; eating, working, and playing.

The house within a house arrangement accommodates both the introvert, with the highly compartmentalized bedrooms, and the extrovert, with the table at the center of the open plan.