How could we think about creating a communal environment in which sharing things was as great as having your own? The typical answer to the question — we had to design 1,040 apartments — would have looked like this: 24-story height limit given by the planning authorities, 12 towers with nothing but residual in between — a very tight system that, although the tower isolates you, it doesn't even give you privacy, because you're so close to the next one, that it is very questionable what the qualities of this would be.
La respuesta típica a la cuestión de diseñar 1040 apartamentos habría tenido este aspecto: una altura de 24 pisos impuesta por las autoridades de planificación, 12 torres con espacios residuales entre medio, un sistema muy compacto que, aunque la torre aísle, no da privacidad porque están tan encimadas unas de otras, que las cualidades de las mismas serían muy cuestionables.