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The larger ones on the left have large green spaces between the buildings, the ones on the right are just a car park with an adjacent dwelling, if you would scale that up you would end up with the same nightmare like you currently have with streets full of terraced houses where the only public space is storage for bins and cars.
It just reminded me of the prize winning social housing above, didn't realize it was supposed to be luxury housing, the interiors look cheaply finished.
Everything might be essentially a box but how you arrange the boxes in space, how you design the public space in between and what surface finishes you use has a massive psychological impact.Gold standard for social housing is the ones I know from Munich, built around 1975, still looks pleasant and fresh today. It was built by private investors, dedicated social housing for a few decades and is partly private now. I think that's why it was built with high quality materials so they still have a nice building once it goes private instead of the current
build cheap and dump it.
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Haven't seen that in person, will look at floorplans later, but left looks like acceptable albeit bland European standard apartment building, probably maximise profit floorplans and then some coloured facade to make it look designy. Whereas right looks like modern and well designed houses, no?
You're aware that every house essentially is a box?