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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Kowloon in Hong Kong serves as a bleak example in this regard. As the city was densely populated by refuges during the Japanese occupation in WWII. Where crime and illegal activities ran rampant as the structures were densely constructed beside one another and in most areas on the ground level sun light visibility is absent as well as the lack of basic utilities and services helped fuel this behavior as one could travel from the south of the city to its north on the rooftops of building that consisted of 10 stores or more without stepping on solid ground.</p>
The 8 house project by BIG Architects was formulated with the direct effect of establishing an inner courtyard by extruding the site boundaries to a specific height and width with an intersecting circulation path through the building creating a knot that combines the north and south side of the building converting the block into an 8 figure form as well as elevating and pushing down far angles of the building in order to increase the exposure of daylight and views to individual units, floors and the courtyards as a whole.
One design restriction for me is with the expenditure of the project concerning the plot size and area as some projects i.e. commercial projects need the utilization of almost all of the plot area which may lead to considerations of cost and quality in some cases to drop down significantly, other projects say; private residential projects which usually may just require the utilization of spaces an individual or a family would need to use giving the possibility of increasing the quality and cost of parts in the project and Thus, the design.
