The Economic Reform of China in the past three decades put an end to work unit and state-owned housing. As housing is no longer provided by the state for free, the issue of public housing rises, along with a new system of service provision based on modern housing. Predominated by commercial, market-driven development, the main housing typology fails to coordinate with changing demographics as well as to help to form an efficient service provision system. Following the context, the project proposes interfamily living, an experimental housing typology along with a new way of service provision. Interfamily living is not a scale, but multiple scales that lie in between the units and the community, which are currently missing. The project tries to fill up the current gap of service provision between urban, neighbourhood and architectural scales, and improve the efficiency of the system by distributing the responsibility from the state to multiple social clusters and units.
