Walking Walls explores housing as a space that evolves with the lives of its inhabitants. The renovation of the former Geneva Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Office building, located in the industrial PAV district, transforms a rigid structure into a flexible system of cohabitation. Currently awaiting demolition, the building is temporarily occupied by artistic, artisanal, and socio-cultural actors, accommodating workshops, offices, and production spaces.

The space is organized according to the building’s existing rhythm and structured vertically along its bays, between open areas for collective living and more intimate spaces. The two dwellings can adapt to changes in family composition, work, and ways of living.

A system of movable partitions makes it possible to modify the size of the spaces, their functions, and their movement between the dwellings.

Housing is no longer a fixed unit—it evolves progressively: from a family home to a workshop, a studio, or a collective-use space. The project proposes an architecture capable of responding to birth, aging, loss, cohabitation, and the evolution of needs over time.