Specifically, the development of so called villa district. For the moment, the courtyard houses that are being built in these suburbs are the fake antiques. We are interested in conceptual courtyards and have already done the design for more than one. The original function of the courtyard is transformed. The courtyard space becomes air walls or cruciform voids.
Courtyard is brought back to the city as a linear element, no longer centric.
A different kind of inhabitability. One may walk, sit, or read in such a courtyard. It seems that in your approach toward Chinese city, you are giving up big proposals and going into private spaces which are made into something public in the process. You could be right about the big proposals since we haven't done any. In fact, what we do is a kind of urban infill.