Storytelling is at the heart of the human condition. How we have told stories has supposedly evolved with our lives. We fear that our complex new technologies have simplified our interactions, our spaces in which we create and share storeys and therefore our roles as storytellers and story consumers. We propose an architecture of simple components to house complex and subtle realities of the stories which make up our lives. Rooms belong to houses, houses belong to cities, and cities belong to people. We have abolished the house, instead opting for a city of rooms. Rooms for all, rooms for one, rooms for everything.

House as City of Rooms was our proposal for the 120 Hours, an open architectural competition organised by students from the Oslo School of Architecture with the theme “What Ever Happened to Architectural Space?”