3 A direct sequence of logical steps leading from people’s wishes to a useful geometric form

Let us follow people’s wishes […], and take them literally, step by step, not introducing anything except what is required to meet these wishes.

First fix the height.
Building have a maximum height of two and a half stories.

Now fix the are of buildings on the ground, per acre.

Then fix the daylight.
To get good daylight in the apartments, much of the perimeter of each apartment must be open to the sky, not boxed into a big building. In effect this will create buildings which are long and narrow, almost like spaghetti, ribbons of long, thin buildings with open space between them forming gardens and streets.

Hence the possibility of individual layout.

Then the gardens.

Then the lanes.

Hence some parking under the street.

What people want in their housing environment is not obscure. The families have made their wishes clear. And what these wishes lead to, if one follows a logical path, unfolding the design according to people’s wishes, under the conditions imposed by high density, is also not obscure.

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