The project aimed to establish design knowledge for new high-rise typologies, determining how spatial strategies for circulation systems could constitute and enhance spatial integrity between the domains of the urban territory, the building, the unit and the individual resident within, essentially aiming for social cohesion under conditions of high-density living.  The project also determined solutions for adaptable layouts that can inherently respond to radically changing and diversifying urban communities with ever more unpredictable lifecycles that demand for new forms of co-habitation.  

Literature studies determined qualitative performance parameters. Subsequently conducted case studies on relevant precedents investigated respective spatial strategies.

Case studies on the ‘social logic’ of circulation systems identified how concepts for spatial integrity, geometric configuration and visibility impact connectivity, and how they facilitate physical and visual encounter. They also analysed strategies to formulate sub-clusters of apartment units conducive for the emergence of micro-neighbourhoods. 
 
Case studies on residential dwellings  determined alternative morphological approaches that inherently facilitate adaptability, by evaluating the poly-valency of room- and unit sequences, and their adjacency and connectivity. Unit ribbons have been developed that go beyond the socio-spatial conventions of ‘units’ as hermetic entities, and that are generic enough to allow diverse and inclusive urban habitats with possible appropriations beyond purely residential ones.

The research has also led to the Sustainable Design Option Studio 2 ‘Future Generic’

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