The Hang-In Concept - a suspended Future 

If the Hang-In concept proves anything, it is that architecture must evolve beyond the ground. Cities are not grids, but layers, and within those layers exist opportunities - for connection, for reinvention, for adaptation. Perhaps the future of our cities will not be defined by how high we build, but by how cleverly we integrate into what already exists. Perhaps the most valuable space in the city is not where we expect it to be - but in the gaps we have forgotten to consider. When I walk out on the street, I’m confronted with a small extended street and 4-5 level high buildings. 

In the heart of the city, this could be anywhere, and you get used to it. But wait. When I look up the street, I always see a connection between the opposite sides of the city canyon, an interessting space that is lying there like a sleeping unpolished diamond. This is the point, where AI came in the game as I wanted to suspended a „Hanger“ between two ancient concrete apartment blocks in the narrow part. A low-poly parametric marvel, a house like a jagged sculpture of liquid metal, defying gravity and tradition alike. For decades, this airspace had been a void. A narrow, perpetual dusk settled between its walls, the sunlight barely reaching the stained asphalt below. The residents, packed into crumbling pre-war high-rises, looked at the sky only to see a sliver of light wedged between the monolithic structures. 

That was, until the HANG-IN initiative begun. As urban researcher, I had the game changing idea: rather than expanding outward or upward, why not build into the gaps? Spaces forgotten by urban sprawl could become integrated living bridges, connecting old with new, past with future. And so, The Hanger was born. A Home Between Worlds The structure seemed impossible. It has no vertical supports, no visible columns - only a network of high-tensile graphene cables embedded within its angular chrome skin, twisting like frozen waves. 

The parametric surfaces folds seamlessly into furniture, walls morphing into storage spaces, ceilings bending into skylights. The main living area features a glass floor that reveals the street far below - an unsettling but exhilarating reminder of its defiance. But The Hang-In is more than just an extended home. It is a passage, a shortcut between the two sides of the street. A private residency, yes - but also a public thoroughfare, allowing pedestrians to walk through it below, experiencing the city with a new perspective, a threshold between the city’s past and its shimmering, algorithmic future. The Resistance and the Future Its adaptive structural intelligence shifted and corrected its form, adjusting to the vibrations of the city, almost alive in its resilience. Then, as the years passed, something unexpected happened. 

More Hanger Houses began to appear, suspended in forgotten urban gaps, knitting the broken cityscape together. What was once an experiment became a movement - an evolution of architecture that filled the voids of the past with the shapes of the future. And so the citydscape transformed. No longer a place of shadow and forgotten echoes, but a place where history and futurism coexisted - where old walls bore new structures, and where the city learned to build not just on land, but into the very air between. A home between worlds. A future within reach. The Hanger had opened a doorway, and nothing would ever be the same. 

The Hang-In: A Vision of Suspended Architecture 

In the ever-densifying fabric of our cities, where land is scarce and expansion is either impossible or unsustainable, a new form of urban architecture is emerging - one that does not conquer space but rather weaves itself into its forgotten voids. Among the most ambitious examples of this concept is the Hanger, a radical residential structure suspended between two buildings in an aging artery in the heart of the city. Neither a skyscraper nor a bridge in the traditional sense, this low-poly parametric design fuses habitation with urban infrastructure. It redefines what a house can be - not simply a static box within the city, but an active, adaptive participant in its evolution. But can a home exist within the gaps of a city? Can we build in between? 

A House Suspended in Time and Space 

The Hang-In began as an experimental project by Christopher Noelle, a multimedia artist specializing in parametric and adaptive design. Rather than demolishing old structures to make way for the new, he proposed a different approach: infilling the negative space of the city itself. Like in many urban corridors, city canyons suffer from an architectural rift - two aging residential buildings standing face to face, separated by an unused void where an old alley splits apart. For decades, this space was a dead zone, a forgotten absence between structures, too narrow for a new high-rise, too insignificant for investment. Enter the Hanger - a living connection between the two buildings, stretching across the void like a fragment of the future dropped into the present. Its twisted, low-poly form does not mimic traditional architecture. Instead, it embraces computational design, its jagged chrome surfaces shifting based on structural needs, its form optimized through AI-driven modeling. This is not just a house - it is a bridge, both literally and metaphorically. 

Urban Function vs. Personal Space 

Unlike typical private residences, the Hanger has a dual function: 1. A Home – The primary structure is a private living space, designed with adaptive interiors that morph based on use. Walls shift, furniture emerges from the parametric surfaces, and the glass floor offers a dizzying view of the street below. 2. A Public Passage – on the street underneath, a narrow pedestrian corridor runs through , now building a rooftop, allowing noise reduction for the surrounding residents. What was once a void in the city has become a threshold between two sides. This blurring of private and public challenges conventional architecture. Should a home be a closed entity, or can it contribute to the city beyond its walls? The Hanger suggests an answer: it can be both. our streets become our next real estate frontier?