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A large part of the population of many countries in the world needs comfortable housing, but not everyone in the cities can afford individual houses and large apartments in luxury multistory frame buildings, so the main capital housing are multistory large-panel buildings. They are built mostly on relatively cheap plots of land or on plots provided practically for free. In these conditions, the cost of the construction of the building significantly affects the cost of apartments, so the task of construction is to reduce the cost of mass houses, which would make housing available to a wider range of people. These requirements are met by multistory large-panel and volumetric block construction. Despite the considerable success of such construction, housing is still an expensive basic necessity.

In many countries there are at best about twenty-five square meters of living space per capita, while in European countries and the United States of America it is about forty five to sixty five square meters. Thus the housing stock should be doubled in order to achieve an acceptable level. At the same time, given the climatic conditions, the cost of land and structures, to abandon multistory building is unlikely. And if so, on the contrary, high-rise construction is moving to high-rise construction. This trend has been observed recently in many countries. Thus, the task of significantly reducing the cost of construction of high-rise buildings remains relevant.

For centuries it has been customary for all houses to be built in Cartesian coordinate system. The main methods of mass construction such as large-panel, volumetric-block and frame construction are based on Cartesian coordinates. At the same time, frame construction is considered to be more expensive.

It has always been assumed that Cartesian coordinates allow creating the most inexpensive method of construction of capital housing. But is this true? It turns out that for high-rise housing is not quite so. It is possible to create a different system of industrial high-rise housing construction where the cost of housing will be significantly lower compared to even the most inexpensive panel or volumetric block houses. It can be achieved if to refuse from Cartesian coordinates and to assume that it is possible to create non-linear laws of building structure formation which will be even more economical. We call this system «Lotus». It changes our idea of affordable mass housing, and creates new forms of living space.

Architectural solutions for this change is described in more detail in the book, published on the platforms of LitRes and Kobo with the title «Unusual „Lotus“ apartments – an alternative to panel construction. Part 1. Architecture.»

This book attempts to show more fully that the functional activity of residents is independent of the system from the coordinates of the enclosing structures of residential modules. Architectural aspects of this approach are expanded. A comparison of apartments in «Lotus» houses and apartments in large-panel buildings at the same cost is given. Analyzed the planning possibilities and various solutions of the facades of the «Lotus» system. For many of these technical solutions patents have been obtained.