The urban footprint of the Fai Chi Kei public housing refuses this common podium and tower scheme: two big patios gather the housing units reaching the ground on a small piazza where all the lifts lobbies and common circulations converge, and the shops open their windows.
The empty space achieved is an enlargement of the walkway: it works both as an urban accident and as a proper entrance square that creates phenomena of identity and belonging.

The spatial organization of the project at each floor led to opting for wide exterior corridors. The main longitudinal corridor is articulated with a double volume patio that acts as a common living room for every thirty two units. Furthermore the two blocks are connected by a patio-bridge every four floors, which along with a social area at podium level create a three dimensional system of common open-to-sky spaces.