About this place

A typical 1980s work-unit residential community built on near-45-degree slopes using extreme terraced architecture to fit enough residents onto a cliff face — its physical layout almost entirely unchanged since construction.

Drifter says

"This is a real-life Monument Valley. The spatial logic here is completely counter-intuitive: you walk up to a building's rooftop to reach the ground-floor entrance of the building behind it. Abandon the map and navigate by body, feeling out what 'rooftop as street' actually means..."

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