In detached medium rises
The slab is a versatile type that can adapt in shape, scale, and budget, to different urban conditions. It’s internal corridor distribution configures simple bars, L shapes, zig-zags, courtyards, or any combination of the latter. The volumetric versatility is enhanced by the corridor along which various shapes and sizes of apartments can be configured. From an economic standpoint these corridors are regarded as spatially inefficient. These types can achieve environmental control through cross ventilation, orientation,and the use of roof surface for energy generation.
The inherent adaptability, low structural demand, and various environmental capacities of the type allows us to think of further investigations on materiality and prefabrication. In the light of the prefabricated compounds present around Chinese construction sites (and now across the globe), could standardized and environmentally conscious explorations allow to counterbalance its spatial inefficiency?