How does one create a welcoming city in an unwelcoming climate?

The fort – scarce protected land shared by large numbers of people – one of the city’s most authentic and compelling raisons d’être; the most efficient and compact form of urbanisation, where work and living form a single integrated whole.

This project couples the conveniences of one’s home to the proximity of cultural and social provisions, the intimacy of the traditional street to smooth accessibility and quality public realm to a large quantum of development...

Concentration, density, synergy, simultaneity, critical mass are the main features, not out of nostalgia, but out of absolute necessity.