Vertical Courtyard Apartments

The housing group stands at the entrance to the city from the airport: six towers, each nearly a hundred metres tall, for eight hundred residents. It was designed by a Chinese practice.

On every second floor there is a double-height courtyard in the sky, an idea that recalls a folded bamboo mat. The facades read like a traditional southern town turned on its side.

Wherever they live in the tower, every household has a courtyard of its own and the feeling of living on the second floor. The architect argued that experimental architecture in the country must be tested in large collective housing, its most massive form of building, or it would remain narcissistic and pale.