These apartments are paired around a stairwell that takes up as little space as possible. They borrow from the Type A apartments identified by Mosei Ginzburg's Stroykon team circa 1927, and remind us how closely those apartment types approached the absolute. 

 

Ninety years on, mechanically ventilated bathrooms are commonplace and a passenger elevator of reasonable quality costs US$15,000 which is less than the cost of constructing the building volume they occupy and less than the cost of constructing access corridors to pass by them. Double-loaded access corridors can no longer be justified on the basis of cost.

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The internal circulation space overlaps the activity space of the kitchen so that each is used as the other. Whether configured as a studio or as a 1-bed apartment, the apartment has two distinct areas linked by spaces as well used as they are travelled. Many variations are possible without disturbing the "core" elements.

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