“We believe that architecture needs to be more flexi-ble in order to meet the demands imposed upon it, and to proactively become part of an everyday exchange with its user,” says su11.

To that end, the architects proposed a concept based on two distinct zones. The Shelves would house all the necessary and/or desired functional and utilitarian programs of the home, while the Flex Space would provide a spatially and programmatically open zone where all the activities of daily life would take place. For construction of the I/N House, su11 proposes a simple wood structural system in which nine-by-three-by-eight-foot-wide units are prefabricated and filled with the chosen programmatic layers (steel can be substituted for lumber). The width of the Flex Space would never exceed 12 feet and would be free-spanning. The structural units incorporate the space for floor and roof, while a system of flexible panels measuring 9-by-4 feet, with a thickness of 1.5 to 4 inches, would be used to create the façade.