Apartment plans 30-200 sqm like a public housing. Apartments are designed with mind to high-density, average 100 square meters apartment size and 30 sq m per person (virtual city because I am not a developer, I do not have capital to build them).

Most projects shown on this page are designed in 2009-2012 for study and artistic purposes. Since 2012 I turned towards designing for customers, more landed houses than apartments!

One of my new-era corridor-style apartment design and probably one of the best so far. Class B (?) project with 105 sqm 4-room and 133 sqm 5?-room apartment plans, all with centrally-placed living room to maximize the space and an entry hall not seen in my previous projects, and neoclassic design. It can have different versions, U-shaped with 6 or 8 units per floor, rectangular with 12 units per floor, etc.

I designed huge projects but I missed the small ones that most people may be looking for.

The blocks with 2 apartments per floor, but unlike the segmented blocks composed by multiple staircases, they are designed to be individual buildings so windows can be placed on sides.

The 16-meters block was the proposal for a customer desperate to build a walk-up block with 10 apartments on a lot intended for one-family house.

The 18-meters block was designed at my own will, being a masterpiece in apartment planning efficiency. All main rooms are facing front and back, no sides, bedrooms enjoy privacy despite of minimal hallways (you can invite guests in living room and they cannot see through bedroom doors. Designed in 2013 .

Why are my 3D designs so similar in my early works? Because I asked friends which is the BEST (and the worst) apartment and to avoid stupid choices like I want to live in this block because is red , I rendered all blocks in similar color schemes, but people still choose the tallest block / biggest apartment.

In late 2010 I decided to make compilations of similar-sized apartments from my different projects and use them for asking friends to make a choice from floorplans, without being influenced by 3D design, so today I make a diversity of facade designs. Which is the best apartment plan in each of these 3 photos?

2011 compilation (published 20 january 2012), now with dimensions!

2010 compilation (published 1 december 2010), for deletion

Haven t made 2012 compilations because I have not designed enough additional apartment layouts. Nowadays I concentrate on designing landed housing.

I should drop the Class A designation? I did not designed any new Class A apartment since long time ago and in 2011 I designed numerous smaller but better Class C apartments, for example 90-100 sqm for 4-room. The 4-room apartments around 95 square meters are not new, I designed such sizes since 2009.

Note that all these sizes are net floor area (not including walls and balconies), I think that I should specify gross floor area too, but I do not know if I should measure from external wall axle or facade, this is even more complicated as the external wall thickness vary due of decorations.

The conception stage is a hard job and is finalized with the draw of AutoCAD floor plan. The 3D stage is an easy job and I do it only when the floor plan is fully optimized. I do not draw every block in 3D, because I do not like to waste my brain doing too easy jobs! I take more care about technical part rather than artistic part, so the 3D models may contain some errors, usually inside so not visible. Some textures may appear wrong because of AutoCAD perspective bug.

Specific rules of apartments in Europe: unlike Asia and America, there are many hallways, typical you enter in a hallway rather than in living room. In some apartments, usually smaller ones, you pass through living room to get in bedrooms. Day and night areas are well separated. Window for bathroom is not mandatory. En-suite bathrooms are uncommon in Europe, usually 3-room apartments have one full bathroom and a WC, 4-room apartments have one bathroom and one WC with shower, but there is no exact rule. The bathroom is always placed in night area, while the WC is usually in day area. Most important rooms are facing south, stairwell can be on both south and north facades, due of this I have no idea how to make all apartments with entrance in day area is impossible! If you are from Western Europe or have knowledge, please give me some info!

This is inspired mostly from North Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland), Germany boost a ratio of 42 sqm per person and only 2.2 persons per dwelling unit. However apartments are smaller, having 2 to 4 rooms, I have no info about average apartment size, many families own both houses and apartments. I heard that 5-room apartments exists, but I never saw them.

In 2009 I was criticized by a British architect, saying that my ideal city looks outdated like 1960s social housing. Well, now I really wanted to design something in style of 1960s-1980s European public housing, both capitalist and stalinist-communist. Planning started in 2010 with lack of knowledge. 3D design done, published in March 2012 together with European Landed Houses that have up to 6 bedrooms.

The apartment complex shown in 3D design contains low-rise blocks with 40 apartments and high-rise blocks again with 40 apartments, in 120?56 sqm of land there are 2 low-rise and 1 high-rise block, containing 24 2-room, 64 3-room, 32 4-room. Average apartment size 80 sqm. 179 apartments per hectare.

Linear Small (formerly called Old Generation) is the cheaper pair of Linear Large, livingroom is facing to common corridor, which leads to a Class C project.

Short version. 64 meters length, 8 units per floor of 2-, 3- and 4-room. Long version. 76 meters length, 8 units per floor of 3- and 4-room. And of course, other versions. The floor plan and 3D model shows half of short version and half of long version.

Linear Large (formerly called New Generation) is the pair and opposite of Linear Small (formerly called Old Generation), all livingrooms and (almost) all bedrooms are facing opposite common corridor. 8 standard types of apartments ranging from 84 to 133 sqm, plus other custom types for non 90° joints, placed along a common corridor, can form various shapes. The 104 sqm 4-Room Middle is base , most common apartment, made me to classify as Class B block, even if the 3-Room Angled apartment is bigger, due of big livingroom caused by block regulated layout and flat facades.

Shape examples: 61 by 48 meters L-shape with 8 units per floor, 4- and 5-Room; 88 by 48 meters S-shape with 16 units per floor, 4- and 5-Room; 64-meter diameter Octagon with 16 units per floor, only 3-Room, or other more complicated shapes.

Linear Maisonette (Formerly named Maisonette Generation) is a Class B project, 14-meter width block with flat facades. Floor plan shows version with 8 units per floor, 60 meters length, the 3D model shows version with 12 units per floor, 88 meters length, at 28 meters apart. 140 sqm apartments of 7 meters width, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, walk-in wardrobe for master bedroom. Maisonette (sometimes misspelled Mansionette) is almost a worldwide term which means two-storey apartments.

Class C project inspired by the most common apartment blocks built in Singapore between 1975 and 1990: New Generation with 3-Room (67 / 82 sqm) and 4-Room on endings (92 sqm). Model A with 3-Room (75 sqm) and 4-Room on endings (105 sqm). These are gross areas (includes wall areas), not net areas (usable areas), for comparison, my gross areas are 76 / 90 / 104 sqm.

I improved it by inverting kitchen with master bedroom and re-proportioned it in a non-equal livingroom and bedrooms widths, to form a livingroom master bedroom ratio of 3:2 and a smaller kitchen, rather than Singapore equally-sized livingroom and kitchen.

The great 14-meter block width and narrow apartment plan means a high land usage efficiency, the block length is variable, and the proportions obtained from 7/8-metre apartments with 3/4-metre rooms creates a beautiful facade, BUT what do you think about the floorplan?

Class C project inspired by the blocks built Singapore between 1985 and 2000, but due of combination of different floorplans, like this. this and this and many modifications, it is barely similar with any Singapore block. Can be built in many shapes, I, U, L, also the corners of Sharpback Large can be combined with the middle of Sharpback Small. BUT what do you think about the floorplan?

New layout inspired from hmm, can t decide! Staircase-style block are very common in South Korea, but with a different layout, longer and thinner. Some day I will make 3D design too.

Two triangle shaped buildings based on a 4 meters grid made in early 2009 and classified as Class A, 10 meters width, all living rooms and bedrooms are facing to outer facade and all kitchens are facing to inner courtyard.

Small version with 9 units per floor, 44 meters facades @ 18 meters from centre, 3D design not adapted to the new rules yet.

Large version with 12 units per floor, 48 meters facades @ 22 meters from centre and 8 meters facades @ 30 meters from centre.

The small version have advantage of bigger apartments and disadvantage of centrally-placed livingroom, but this disadvantage made possible to design a regulated symmetrical block with odd number of apartments per floor!

This is my most complex project so far (formerly called Freedom Generation), started in late 2009 .

Inspired from 2000s housing projects built in various Asian cities, a variety of apartment plans of different classes, from 1-bedroom to 4-bedroom units, 50 sq m / 550 sq ft to 130 sq m / 1400 sq ft or over, are joined in pairs on wings, linked with a central core (staircase and lifts) by bridge-corridors. The freedom of shape variations is nearly unlimited. Some kitchens are facing inside.

After designing numerous individual blocks during my first year, I planned to design a condo-like project in November 2009. I choose a U-shape composed by 7 blocks each with 3 wings of 2 apartments, that apparently makes entire complex to look like a single building, and a multi-storey carpark in the middle.

I saw it ugly, having a single building and too monotonous facade on other side, so I never finished it, I never wasted time trying to connect carpark to blocks. I rather decided to abandon it be And to start over a better, second condo project: Freestyle Linear 1024!

This project is not only a masterpiece in Computer Aided Design, but also a fully functional condominium featuring one of the best layout possible!

After designing the Freestyle U-Shaped 472 condo having apparently a single ugly block and varying roof line, I planned to design a modern condo with exactly 1024 apartments, and uniform design dominated by long linear blocks with facades with continuous horizontal lines. Full-height windows were a later idea.

The development is composed by six 100-meter long blocks and four 60-meter long blocks provide a mix of 384/320/320 units of 3/4/5-room apartments, and proportional sizes (73 / 96 / 122 sqm net floor areas). The 5-rm units gets the best views, but some 3-rm and 4-rm also get direct pool view!

Distance between blocks: 30 meters between main facades, 20 meters between side facades, and 60 meters across pool.

Land size: 6.45 hectares (288 by 224 meters). Density: 158.7 dwelling units per hectare.

All blocks are oriented in same direction (east-west), typical in equatorial countries like Singapore and Malaysia to minimize sun inside apartments, while the oversized olympic pool is oriented north-south to get sunshine all day long between blocks. There are 4 spaces between blocks, usable for more pools, tennis courts oriented north-south (as they should be), barbecue pit and other facilities. Clubhouse rooftop is used as basketball court.

The single-storey basement carpark spreading over entire area of apartment complex provide space for parking about 1040 cars and a large amount of greenery.

Drop-off porch and covered walkways are not necessary, you can drive through carpark and stop at just 16 meters from each lift.

For all curious guys who ask how much time took me to do this big project, I can say that designing spread over one year, starting in early 2011, I cannot estimate actual time of working, because I let it waiting until new ideas came in my mind.

Due of few customers and paid projects in 2012, I had to delay such hobby/artistic projects.

The drawing is still not finished, but decided to publish it in August 2012 because I no longer have TIME to continue such projects, and anyway it looks complete. I may post later more plans and 3D photos.

Next things to do may be recolouring each block in own colour, redesign the clubhouse, add children playgrounds (although they will overload drawing for no reason, AutoCAD is already crashing due of drawing size), feel free to give new ideas!

I already made in late 2011 plans and began a third condo, composed by 8 or 10 zig-zag shaped blocks arranged in 4 lines, varying height from 8 to 16 floors, probably 708 apartments but, because since 2012 I concentrate time on PAID work, I am doubt if I will ever have time to finish it.

Class A project mainly based on 4-meter grid. 4-Room apartments (livingroom, 2 bedrooms, and a smaller studyroom) and 5-Room duplex penthouses at the top. The floorplan is my idea, no inspiration from any existing block. Could have 2 versions: 32 by 20 meters (shown in floorplan) and 28 by 24 meters, the single difference is position of core with staircase and lifts, the size of apartments or core is the same. The 3D models shows both versions.

Designed originally in December 2008. redesigned 2010.