a starter home for a different future
Role: Interior Design Lead, Strategy Lead
Typology: Flatpack, pre-fabricated homes
Completed with: McKinley Studios, Commonplace Homes
Our commonplace — a prefabricated housing concept designed to rethink how homes are built, delivered, and lived in.
What happens when home ownership becomes out of reach for an entire generation?
That question sparked Our Commonplace—part product, part system, the project explored how compact living, sustainability, and emotional durability could coexist without compromise.
Rather than treating prefab as a stripped-down alternative, the goal was to position it as something more intentional: flexible, design-forward, and deeply human.
At its core, Our Commonplace is a flat-pack housing system designed for adaptability. Homes are prefabricated, transportable, and assembled with efficiency in mind, reducing construction waste, timelines, and complexity.
But the ambition extended beyond speed or cost savings.
The project asked a bigger question:
What if smaller homes could still feel expansive, grounded, and aspirational?
The answer came through thoughtful planning, warm materiality, and a design language that prioritized atmosphere as much as function.
What made Our Commonplace distinct was its broader view of housing.
The project approached housing not just as architecture, but as a system shaped by manufacturing, logistics, sustainability, affordability, and long-term livability. Research, branding, spatial planning, and product thinking were developed in parallel to create a cohesive vision.
More than designing a house, the goal was to rethink how people access home ownership in the first place.
