You consider it a fair design. I look at it as a waste of space. All it does is replace &quot;car&quot; with &quot;bike&quot;. It even says so, with &quot;Residential bike parking should have the same space-syntax relationship to the front door and kitchen as car parking does in a contemporary house in the suburbs.&quot;<p>Look at how much hallway space it needs to have a cycle path, plus bike parking. It adds, what, 2-3 meters of hallway width? Plus there&#x27;s space inside the apartment. Is all that space really justified? A normal apartment bike room can store a much higher density of bicycles. Even more if there are hangers, or multi-level racks.<p>Using that &#x27;same space-syntax relationship&#x27;, if the weather outside is horrible so the children play in the hallway, do the cyclists get priority? On a bicycle lane they do. But inside an apartment complex?<p>With these mega-wide hallways, what if someone wanted to put up planters rather than using the parking space? Would that be okay? Or use it to store something other than a bicycle? (Eg, kick bike, tricycle, recumbent tricycle, stroller, wheelbarrow, luggage cart.) If not, why do bicycles get priority?<p>In my apartment building the solution is easy - we can&#x27;t keep anything in the hallway.<p>Consider more specifically. &quot;The apartment entryway is designed with space for a bike.&quot;<p>Yeah, no. In winter my bike has slush and road gravel on it. Why would I want to bring that inside? Right now I leave it in the bike room, which has a cement floor. Expressed using the same &#x27;space-syntax&#x27;, I walk in through the front door, not the garage door.