The affordable housing crises we now face throughout the world require a similarly universal solution. My proposition is that the solution lies in sustainability and adaptability. With a modular system that is completely customizable, programmable and recyclable, a building can be adapted for use in various climates, cultures, lifestyles, temperatures, and its lifecycle extended indefinitely through maintenance and upgrades rather than demolition. A dynamically editable mass timber modular system, sourced from sustainable forests, can adapt to climate change through reconfigurations of the building typology and a reorganization and reuse of individual modular components while remaining carbon neutral.

Tatami takes inspiration from a combination of the gridded system of tatami mats at the heart of traditional Japanese architecture, and the utopian dreams for adaptability and multiplicity, itself inspired by organic systems, proposed by the Metabolists.