The project features a series of modernist towers with compact apartments, surrounded by a thoughtful array of public spaces—gardens, playfields, plazas, and leisure areas. The architectural strategy carefully zones high-rise structures to separate public and private areas, complemented by low-rise, community-focused buildings including a sports center, a restaurant with a beer garden, and a retail area.

As a landscape for affordable housing, the U-Community project provides innovation in the use of pattern design language, introduction of moveable wire mesh furniture and integration of urban tree forest structure. The pattern language links spatial functions with aesthetic images, helping residents to identify and memorize the landscape from their high-rise apartments. It seamlessly blends hardscape and softscape into a continuous territory, a willfully organized form of nature.

To meet the demands of the construction budget while creating an ‘urban forest’ canopy, the landscape architecture employs a 5x5m tree grid. As the project matures, the tree canopy will increase in value, capturing carbon and reducing storm water runoff.

With its high-efficiency architecture and limited residential interior spaces, residents look to the landscape as a source of release, tranquility, excitement, and socialization. BAM’s landscape not only delivers these spaces but does so in an exciting aesthetic language. In its first year, the project was named “Best Apartment of 2023” and garnered attention from government leaders across Asia as a model for affordable, healthy, and vibrant living.