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Public housing estates in bunches

Cross, Y, twin-tower and slab blocks now stand in matching groups, with pastel facades and rooftop tanks.

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A bunch of tall cross-shaped housing blocks with lift motor rooms and water tanks on their roofs, on a hillside above the harbour.
A bunch of cross-plan blocks, each with a lift motor room and a water tank on the roof.

Hong Kong's public housing came in a handful of standard blocks, built in bunches to one design. The sim now builds its estates the same way.

Blocks that match

The map's building footprints are not tagged, so the sim looks for groups of four or more similar, mid-sized tall footprints standing within 75 m of each other. Each group becomes an estate. The central business districts, Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui and Kowloon City keep their tenements, so the street scene under the approach is unchanged.

  • Harmony and Cruciform: a cross plan, the most common shape in the 1990s.
  • Trident: a Y plan with three wings.
  • Twin Tower: two square towers, one taller than the other, in the older estates.
  • Slab and Linear: long, narrow blocks on the tighter sites.
A bunch of tall cross-shaped housing blocks with lift motor rooms and water tanks on their roofs, on a hillside above the harbour.
A bunch of cross-plan blocks, each with a lift motor room and a water tank on the roof.

One estate, one look

Every block in an estate shares a height class (roughly 16 to 22 floors in the older estates, 28 to 35 for Trident and Cruciform, 34 to 41 for Harmony) and a pastel scheme, with a few blocks in a second shade. Heights still stay under the approach clearance, so the autopilot lands in every weather preset as before.

The facade has a window on every bay, an air-conditioner under many of them, a stair and lift core every eight bays and alternating panels. At night the windows light up in warm and cool white, and the stair cores glow a steady green-white.

Looking down on an estate of tall blocks in yellow, white and grey, arranged in loose rows between two roads.
An estate seen from above: one height class, one pastel scheme, a few blocks in a second shade.
Housing blocks at night with lit windows and red obstruction lights on the roofs, beside dark water.
The same kind of estate after dark, with lit windows and red obstruction lights.

Try this

Fly the Runway 31 approach or switch to Spectator, then look at the hillsides of Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin and Kwai Chung for the bunches of matching blocks.

香港嘅公共屋邨用少數幾款標準大廈，成群按同一款設計興建。模擬器而家用同樣方法起屋邨。

成群一式一樣嘅大廈

地圖上嘅建築物輪廓冇標籤，所以模擬器會搵出四幢或以上、大細相若、相距 75 米內嘅高樓輪廓，每一組就變成一個屋邨。中環等商業區、旺角、尖沙咀同九龍城繼續保留舊式唐樓，所以進場航道下面嘅街景冇變。

  • 和諧式同十字型：十字形平面，係九十年代最常見嘅款式。
  • 三叉型（Trident）：Y 形平面，有三個翼。
  • 雙塔式（Twin Tower）：兩座方形大廈，一高一矮，見於較舊嘅屋邨。
  • 長條型同橫向型：喺較窄嘅地盤用，又長又窄。
一群十字形高層屋邨大廈，天台有升降機機房同水缸，喺維港上面嘅山坡。
一群十字形大廈，每幢天台都有升降機機房同水缸。

一個屋邨，一個樣

同一個屋邨嘅大廈高度級別一樣（較舊屋邨約 16 至 22 層，三叉型同十字型約 28 至 35 層，和諧式約 34 至 41 層），顏色都係同一套粉彩色，有少數幾幢用第二種色調。高度仍然受進場航道淨空限制，所以自動導航喺所有天氣下都照樣著陸。

外牆每個窗位都有窗，好多窗下面有冷氣機，每八個窗位有一條樓梯同升降機核心，仲有交替嘅牆板。夜晚窗口會亮起暖白同冷白燈，樓梯核心就發出穩定嘅綠白光。

由上面望落一個屋邨，高層大廈有黃色、白色同灰色，鬆散排成幾行，夾喺兩條路中間。
由上面睇一個屋邨：同一個高度級別、同一套粉彩色，有幾幢用第二種色調。
夜晚嘅屋邨大廈，窗口亮燈，天台有紅色障礙燈，旁邊係漆黑嘅海面。
同類屋邨入夜之後，窗口亮燈，天台有紅色障礙燈。

試吓

飛 Runway 31 進場，或者轉去 Spectator，然後睇吓觀塘、黃大仙同葵涌嘅山坡，搵一群群一式一樣嘅大廈。

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