Staying In: Architecture After Isolation (si-aai), is an architectural thesis that examines a missing layer in suburban environments: the absence of in-between space for everyday interaction. While the suburban landscape supports private domestic life and distant commercial destinations, it often lacks places for casual, repeated engagement within walking distance.

The project proposes a modular system of small-scale, buildable assemblies placed within overlooked edges: creeks, forests, hillsides, and residual spaces. Constructed from familiar architectural elements, these interventions create opportunities for gathering, making, observing, and occupying space outside the home without relying on large-scale development.

Rather than replacing existing structures, the system works incrementally, forming a distributed network of shared spaces that reintroduce social life into the suburban fabric.