In truth the buildings of Everyville do have doors, though the city is designed in such a way to connect in the indoors and the outdoors. The signature of the Everyville building is its ‘stable door’ opening onto the street, usually with the top half left open; it is a kind of half-porous city where the static interior and the immaterial exterior blend into a fluid urban life. Homes open onto small pedestrian-scaled streets, paved and gardened, which create small active communities as lives spill out of houses into the street and into other houses.
By introducing these half-open doors into their city the citizens of Everyville have removed social barriers, by conducting their lives on the streets of the city they have introduced a new sense of community. Everyville looks like every other city, but for the people who live there, who tell stories about their lives there, it feels different.
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