stackhouses

the "hives" of the far east of taliesin are densely-packed apartment buildings that, when they were built around forty years ago, presented endless gray concrete with single tiny balconies. in the time since, roughwild contamination has caught up to streak the walls with green and flower-colours -- and so to the inhabitants have painted as far as they could reach and fly bright flags from stackhouse to stackhouse. although not quite slum conditions, each stackhouse contains hundreds of shoebox-sized homes. the alleyways and streets below are thick with trees and overgrowth.