This is not possible if the dynamics in each coordinate is the same. Though, I am not sure if in general having different dynamics is a sufficient condition for it to be possible. For linear time invariant systems it is sufficient (if each sub system is controllable). A simple example of this would be
$$ \begin{bmatrix} \dot{x}_1 \\\ \dot{x}_2 \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} a_1 & 0 \\\ 0 & a_2 \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} x_1 \\\ x_2 \end{bmatrix} + \begin{bmatrix} 1 \\\ 1 \end{bmatrix} u. $$
Namely the controllability matrix can be shown to be
$$ \mathcal{C} = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & a_1 \\\ 1 & a_2 \end{bmatrix}, $$
which is full rank if $a_1 \
eq a_2$ (which implies that when $u=0$ $x_1$ and $x_2$ have different dynamics). The controller could then be designed using state feedback using for example pole placement or LQR.