Casting a question mark upon the proverbial image of home, Gary Chang's "Suitcase House attempts to rethink the nature of intimacy, privacy, spontaneity, and flexibilty. Chang's uncanny prototype proposes a 40-meter long empty rectangular space built on wood strata, flexibly divisible by a series of sliding and folding partitions. That in and of itself is hardly earth shattering. But lift a pneumatic panel in the floor and up pops a bathroom, a kitchen, a bedroom, cabinets. It's pop-up book meets designer living, and all in 250 square meters of space. A playful game for homeowners, the "Suitcase House was designed along with 11 other radical houses for the Artists Commune project near the Great Wall in Beijing.
