Singapore’s public housing programme—an inclusive space that prioritises families and intergenerational living—is widely considered one of the most successful in the world. Amidst this backdrop, 03-FLATS follows the domestic experiences of three single women who are at different stages of their lives.

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Through this study of 03-FLATS, Lilian Chee discusses the paucities in architectural representations of domestic space, and in particular focus on representations of Singaporean public housing, a state-sponsored programme that has been relatively well documented and frequently lauded for its success. This chapter takes a critical view that its existing architectural representations have largely emphasized the close correlation between formalist strategies with social and ethnic nationalist cohesion policies. This mode of representation undermines a discussion of how public housing may still fulfil a social role in an Asian setting where once unshakeable institutions such as those of family, nation and gendered roles in both contexts are gradually being challenged.