--The autonomous house in the suburbs has come to symbolize the dream of self-sufficiency and independence, yet most people spend the vast majority of their time and energy working to make this elusive dream a reality. As the suburban landscape spreads out horizontally to accommodate even more self-contained houses, people must be willing to commute further so that they might live their lives away from the city center. Consequently, citizens will become increasingly detached from their neighbors. In this model, social life among neighbors can not occur naturally.--Real estate development agendas have built cities which intentionally segregate houses from other urban programs. The segregated nature of cities forces residents into certain behaviors. The distances between the homes and other spaces cause an unnecessary obstacle in one’s day-to-day lifestyle. Consequently, residents are choosing to bring these once-public programs into their private spaces. The individual suburban house consumes all potential desired programs, swelling to the demands of the inhabitants. Citizens consume space, rather than seeking social interactions out in the public environment.--Using the spatial efficiency of the Co-Housing model, this proposal reconfigures the house typology by removing some of the redundant programs from the living spaces, kitchens, private spaces, and garages and combining them into larger, shared facilities. New towers contain these reconfigured, shared programs along with new spaces. The common facilities serve all of the new and existing residences on the block. By providing shared facilities in which residents can share daily tasks, such as cooking, dining and child-care, better communities are established while residents spend less time doing these tasks individually. Simultaneously, more space is now available on the blocks for other uses, or may be left open as park space.