 Advanced density is what I would like to add to your discussion of today. It's not coincidence that this conference and this subject goes together with this news a couple of weeks ago. And that actually, at the same moment, we are predicting for the coming 30 years still some growth on the planet. And that at the same moment that those will be mainly housed on this kind of places, on our cities. So density is and remains a hot issue for the coming generation. What to do in that case? And I was asked to go back for a moment into a book that we made, I think 10 years ago, which was our first excursion on density. In one of these chapters, we were trying to understand what density would mean in more factors, more social environment, more culture, but also other kind of elements. So this was a shocking, say, partly shocking analysis where, for instance, if I go to this chapter, you see certain correlations between the growth in densities and the number of road accidents, obviously. But if you go, for instance, to the more like seemingly arbitrary section, you could start to imagine that all those people that say, if I make a denser, then I get more crime or I get more sex offenses. It's dangerous over there that we try to unravel that at that moment. So here a relationship in Latin America between density and sex offense. The denser you build at that moment, the lower the sex offenses. Or in Europe, an equivalent at that moment. Most of our sex offenses are in the villages, as clearly can be stressed in Belgium. So how does it end in Asia? Hmm, similar. So in general, I would say this is a global graph and summary about that sex offense and density has more opportunities when it's denser. If I go to another, if I put all the crime together, in Europe and the U.S., the denser, the less crime, including the sex offense. In Asia, it's the opposite, still. And I'm curious about it, how that would happen. And in Africa, sorry, but in general on the planet, it's quite equal, to be honest. So neutralizing a little bit the discussion on that subject. How to go further on this subject? Can that lead then to other kind of cities? Can we then take that one step further to make our cities better, our densities much better? Why to do that? Actually, in quite a sequence of observations, we cannot do that in one subject. Crime and violence and other aspects that surround this increase in density, there are more aspects to do that. So this is a sequence of our, say, density studies, our advanced density studies. We want to incorporate animals in the future, in our cities. I love that foxes will soon be found in Amsterdam. We want to automate until how far our cities, in that way, to make our densities more believable and more advanced. We want to accelerate in order to give density more cohesion and more quality as such. So how far can we go? Can we reach any destination in five minutes in the near future? I would like to illustrate it a little bit with another technique. It's more on the practical side. Then how we can love density and can encourage that to develop. This is Hong Kong, a study that we made and that just comes out in the coming weeks, where we fantasize and speculate on what Hong Kong, my love affair with Hong Kong, as one of the best densest places on the planet, how we can not only learn from it, how Hong Kong can come better as such. World-class is a kind of definition that we more and more use in order to define standards and goals for our cities. So why not make that more applicable on density? So look on the right how comparative analysis could lead to a possible agenda for even for Hong Kong in that way. Because if I look to the quality of living in Hong Kong, it's quite low, shockingly. I didn't know. Or if I look from this sector to the education index, it still needs work to do. Or if I look then to other zones, like in this case, the number of museums or culture, there's another definition seemingly of culture in Hong Kong. If I then look to other aspects like public transport, below, that's fantastic. You beat the rest of the planet with that. That's what density is about. And if I go to other aspects like to nature, then indeed you have the greenest city on that planet. So how to bring that one step further? So architects need not only to show graphs, they have to show images that seduce or that help a little bit to spatialize that kind of suggestions. So let's imagine that you're investing culture. Let's imagine that after the competition of West Kowloon, we would like to connect those two places. I could open up some of your tunnels and turn it into new vast say valleys that connect the two sides. Where this kind of housing could be imagined and turning into this kind of say fantasies. Okay, a little jokey I guess. But let's go further, investing in nature. Your embracement with nature is rather primitive. It's kind of defense strategy when you go into your mountains. Let's embrace them better, go into it and turn it into accessible zones where you can make your innovative housing. And yes, another poor part, the energy part. We should invest in cooling your city at a certain moment and invest in other kind of energies so that you become less independent. These kind of water lilies could become a kind of fantasy that adds to your repertoire and that makes your density more beautiful. It could look like this, floating in your bay and beating avatar in its best senses to get your density up to the top level again. And that's what I would call that at that moment, Super Hong Kong. Having then said that comparative analysis could lead to the agenda of an advanced density, I would like to apply that also on the buildings themselves. Euro high is an in-between step before I go back to Asia on open up our, say our skyscrapers. This is what we have to make as architects in your densities and they all start to look the same. One door go up and go back again and there are vulnerable objects in this kind of new dense environment. How to study, say, porosity? We tried to do that a little bit in Madrid in the grand times of Europe where we could imagine that even other kind of programs would float over Madrid and would open up our skyscrapers and turn it into a kind of more vertical village that if we theorize on that and we start to study porosity in its more technical senses and we do it like this, this is the minimum act of porosity that I could do at that moment to speculate how we could do that with different techniques. How another technique, the opening up the belly act could lead to such a tower or another theatrical aspect could lead to this one or a splitting act could lead to this zone or maybe this could lead to a new tower, etc. Take one parameter, bring it to the max and find what porosity could mean, what kind of social element I could add to this. So here the balcony series the deviation series, the landscape series, the parasites they form one say observation how future towers could enhance more and other factors, more social factors that would neutralize the possibility crimes that otherwise would surround in this anonymity. So this could then that city we look like how this army of possible towers could enrich our objects and turn that city in that operation that I was just painting. The bubbles, the bend tower, the terraces, the belly the beams, the terraces all together. I end with a conclusion where actually XS shakes hands with XL it is an observation that we recently did for this part of the planet where we find this say battle between two kind of inhabitants those that want to live in a village and those that are forced to live in larger entities. If you look to Shanghai ten years ago what happened in these last ten years or sorry, when you look in Seoul you see similar processes that these old villages have disappeared and vanished and turned into giant say blocks. Maps show clearly how the Hutong from blue went into this block attack and you can do that for any of your cities in this region. It leads to this kind of city spaces where you have sites that beat inequality in that way where the houses are completely the same and are described in an architectural matter like this I can't do anything as an architect about it you rule with your rules everything in that aspect and you continue with that this is the recent production this is what you have on your model boards at the moment this is what I can predict for the coming time how are you going to happen work with this horror I must say and give that to a kind of new generation when they come and look to your brochures and want to choose between all the differences what differences they become a certain despair is going to happen so on this spot at Taipei we are going to try to work on a composition say a village where if you make an x-ray already starts to show that there are individualisms over there a much more choice than you can do in your apartment buildings and at the same moment there's a migration process in Taipei that the middle class want to go out in order they can't find a good place you need these people you have to keep them in your cities in order to make all your amenities to flourish them so we try to give this new block a sequence of desires a cube house, a normal house a house with a tower, a twin set a factory, a catholic one a courtyard classical a run around and say a cloud and then give them some kind of materials get them some gardens make more fences and give that for anything thinkable you can choose between the two so we did some in that way from the beginning to make the favourites and this is how that neighbourhood could start this block could start to look and how it grows now into this model as you can see these days on the spot how I still love this composition between this new block and the old ones and how it can go into this trajectory I'm not going to design it it's clear that we need you to make that I want to incorporate everybody in that operation so we make like IKEA a kitchen maker, we make a house maker you make your house and then in a village maker you can position it you define your viewing line your sun line and at that moment it calculates what is the best position within your price range and at that moment with this software we start to find out the new infrastructure in that place and how it starts to look like in the end and we can compare that what kind of villages can come out of that out of this process and here you see it how it hopefully starts now soon in Taipei and the construction how it can lead to this kind of environments which I don't know and where I say the 2D zoning which dominated our former densities turns now gradually into a 3D zoning urbanism becomes vertical and with that I hope to give you a series of thoughts on how I could think that advanced density could look like thank you very much