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PolyRoom offers users the opportunity to adapt the space in many different ways, which makes the space feel more generous. “Take a balcony,” says architect Antonin Yuji Maeno. “You might only use it about 1% of the year, but the fact that you have that possibility helps make the space rich. It helps it not feel tiny or prepackaged.”

“This kind of adaptable architecture could open up liquid territories and ‘grasshopper lifestyles’,” says architect Antonin Yuji Maeno. “People could live part of the year in the city and can seamlessly move to another more remote location for a change of pace and to recharge.”

From a single basic unit, many different types of residential blocks can be built—