Home for Mutual Gaze is a minimalist apartment located in Taipei, Taiwan, designed by MoreIn Design. The project begins from a question rarely posed in residential planning, which is whether a home can be organized so that no inhabitant ever has their back turned to the other. That premise displaces the usual hierarchy of living room, bedroom, and corridor, replacing it with a continuous field governed by sightlines rather than partitions.

MoreIn Design stripped the original three-bedroom plan down to its essentials, removing two secondary bedrooms and reorganizing what remained around a central axis that terminates at the balcony. This axis divides the apartment into two territories, the master bedroom and the living zone, connected by a looping circulation route rather than a dead-end corridor. An open walk-in closet sits between them, functioning as a threshold that mediates movement, light, and airflow without ever sealing one zone from the other. Sleeping quarters step back behind the closet, deliberately removed from the loop, which gives privacy through recession rather than through a locked door.

The organizing metaphor is the village, and it is more than rhetorical. Circular ceiling fixtures of varying diameters read as dotted lines across the plan, mapping activity zones the way a settlement maps itself through plazas and pavilions. Larger circles gather, smaller ones isolate. Because brightness and color temperature are adjustable, the same ceiling can host collective energy in the evening and solitary concentration in the afternoon. This resonates with the spatial thinking of Sou Fujimoto and the primitive future house, where furniture, floor plate, and topography collapse into one another, though MoreIn achieves a similar dissolution through illumination and proximity instead of stepped platforms. The absence of a television wall is decisive. Removing that single element eliminates the gravitational center that most living rooms organize themselves around, and the room becomes all-directional as a consequence.