Episode Details

Most high-rises are designed for efficiency, not connection. Residents are stacked in private units connected only by elevator cars where silence is the norm. But it doesn't have to be this way. This episode explores the architectural choices that create—or destroy—community in vertical buildings. We examine the "threshold spaces" that enable neighborly encounters, the "amenities trap" that isolates rather than connects, and real-world experiments like Le Corbusier's skip-stop corridors and Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67. Plus, a look at the Interlace in Singapore, a contemporary building that proves density and community don't have to be opposites.