Blending Legacy and Modernity: Inside Cocoon House Renovation by Compartment S4

Studio Compartment S4’ layered renovation explores how spatial design nurtures generational continuity while adapting to modern domestic life. This 4,500-square-foot home demonstrates how architecture can serve as a responsive framework for change, memory, and multiplicity of use. Designed for three generations of lawyers, the project interweaves private sanctuaries with open communal zones, creating a living, evolving archive of memory and function. At the heart of the design is a reinterpretation of the central courtyard—formerly enclosed by a glass-brick roof—now opened into a double-height living room capped by an expansive skylight. This transformation retains the courtyard’s original luminosity and openness while […]