Hong Kong architect, Gary Chang has taken his 344 sq. ft. apartment and built it to contain
24 different living spaces. He calls it “The Domestic Transformer”.
This is the first time I’ve seen it, but The NY Times did a feature on his living space a little over a year ago with some amazing photos & floor plans. Gary Chang used this apartment as an experiment to test reconfigurable spaces. His company EDGE Design Institute, which he founded in 1994, was apart of a project called The Suitcase House Hotel. It’s situated near Beijing and The Great Wall of China can be seen from all spaces within when seated. Check out the image gallery.

Suitcase House Hotel is originated from the experimental development The Commune By the Great Wall in Beijing. The developers of the project invited altogether 12 younger generation of Asian architects, from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Mainland China and Hong Kong, to design independently 11 houses and a club in the valley at the foot of the Great Wall. The development compiles of 2 phases. The first phase of the Commune is a Guesthouse-Hotel community while the second phase will be the weekend Villa-Homes.



Casting a question mark on the proverbial image of the house, Suitcase House Hotel attempts to rethink the nature of intimacy, privacy, spontaneity and flexibility. It is a simple demonstration of the desire for ultimate adaptability, in pursuit of a proscenium for infinite scenarios, a plane of sensual (p)leisure. (via)

This is a video of The Domestic Transformer in action.

(credit: @Martin_Isaac)