Hex Living Cell (urban design)

The Hex Living Cell is an urban planning concept developed by the Tiperyner Burrough of Virdum in the Greater Ambrosian Metropolitan Area centered on community areas. Within low density residential cells (pictured right) the outer edge of the cell is lined with 48 three-story terraced houses, which can either be single-family homes or be divided into three separate apartments. These houses face inwards towards a 3.5 acre hexagonal space serving their district. This space can be purposed to fill a variety of roles, including general green space, football fields (as pictured), theatres, running tracks, racket courts, and other uses. The low density residential cells are accompanied by hex cells hosting mixed use development, high-density public housing complexes, schools, and libraries.

The Hex Living Cell is an experimental development of the more typical rectangular "Living Cell" style of neighborhood planning common in Tiperyner cities. The Hex Cell concept called for much larger community areas in the center of residential development. One of the largest criticisms of the methodology is that due to the hexagonal shape of blocks, it is very space inefficient. A Hex Living Cell with an equivalent amount of residential units takes up roughly double the surface area of a traditional rectangular plan. For this reason, the concept has not been applied outside of the relatively affluent Burrough of Virdum.