This paper examines vernacular governance and spatial transformations of low-cost apartments (LCAs). LCAs are a plausible solution to housing shortages for the urban poor in cities that face constantly increasing land values and limited space. Although prohibited by law, various spatial transformations occur to meet immediate needs. This case study addresses the practice of vernacular governance in the spatial transformations of LCAs through the vernacularisation by nomotropism to meet residents’ needs and solve their problems without the government’s complicated bureaucracy. Atomisation occurs from the neighbourhood to the molecular scale, among next-door neighbours and by creating multiple, distinctive vernacular governances on each LCA floor. This study offers a new perspective on housing policy in terms of distributing decision making to the community, thus creating flexible appropriation of space to meet residents’ ever-changing and immediate needs.

本文研究了低成本公寓（LCA）的白话治理和空间转换。对于面临不断增长的土地价值和有限空间的城市中的城市贫困人口，LCA是解决住房短缺问题的合理解决方案。尽管受到法律的禁止，但发生了各种空间转换以满足即时需求。本案例研究解决了LCA的空间转化过程中的白话治理实践，该方法通过向形论的白话化来满足居民的需求并解决他们的问题，而无需政府复杂的官僚机构。原子化是从邻域到分子尺度，在相邻邻域之间发生，并且是通过在每个LCA地板上创建多个独特的白话治理而发生的。