Housing blocks and recreational ground: Highlight Double-height amenity spaces.

Typical apartment interior. The loose partitions in plywood also act as storage shelves increasing functional efficiency.

Garment workers sit on the floor of their apartment during a lunch break in a suburb of Phnom Penh June 26, 2013. Most garment workers who arrive from the provinces to work at factories in Cambodia’s capital live in tiny apartments packed into crowded buildings.

Community courtyard: Viewed from the first-floor circulation bridge, enjoyed by the living room and bedroom of each apartment. The recessed windows are formed by boxing of internal storage spaces along the line of a strip of the veranda in front of each window enhancing passive surveillance. A continuous ventilator above eye level aids with cross ventilation and brings daylight to interior spaces while allowing privacy.