In-depth studies The third stage of this research focuses on three dwelling projects with different characteristics. Next 21 in Japan. Quinta Monroy in Chile and Nemausus in France. These projects were chosen because of their different geographical locations and urban conditions, giving some insight to the different approaches to the notion of flexible dwelling, given with a different cultural and location background. The also emerged from different design participation levels, Next 21 had different architects working with different clients, Chile had one architect working in a participatory manner with the community, and in the case of Nemausus one architect designing the whole complex for the unknown client. These projects also present different scales, in the case of Nemausus, the project is a large complex of slab buildings with the most amount of dwellings and higher density. Chile presented a repeted module of 3 dwellings that takes the majority of the city block, and provides a low-rise, middle density community. Next 21, is the least conventional in terms of stacked dwelling, given that the entire building works as a frame awaiting infill; and is the best known example of the open-building movement, following the principles of John Habraken. Furthermore, they covered different levels of permanence which adds to the variety of methodology employed,
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