With the presence of the pandemic, many issues surrounding mental health have surfaced. However, these existing issues simply escalated due to the majority of the population being forced to stay home during the lockdown. This thesis began to question how architecture could adequately provide for the wellbeing of its people, thereby, affecting the realm of the psychosocial. If many were forced to stay home, how could housing be redefined to cater for these psychosocial needs? The thesis, therefore, takes an approach driven by these human needs. The explored design, located beside Bishan - Ang Mo Kio Park, combines both commercial (offices included) and residential with common shared facilities into a single compound.

In the larger scheme, it addresses 2 issues:

1. The need for a strong local community within the compound that strenghtens the

individual, and therefore the community.

2. The need for boundaries to, once again, be drawn as the ambiguity surrounding

pandemic life has contributed significantly to the decline of mental wellbeing.