At First I Could Not Make Out What I Was Looking At,

a housing development of course, 

photograph Shahrir Bahar/instagram/@shahrirbahar1, but what was underneath it? the photographs were taken in the Indonesian city of Jakarta, where space is at a premium, some crowded capitals, like Tokyo, are expanding vertically, Jakarta is expanding horizontally, with most residents preferring low-rise houses instead of apartments, with real-estate in increasingly short supply, developers have been forced to use all available space in the city, and that’s how urban developments like Cosmo Park came to exist,

photograph Kitty Ledingham, zooming out it is plain to see the complex is built on top of another building, there are 78 two-storey villas and featuring its own network of asphalt roads, plenty of greenery, swimming pools, and even a tennis court, the whole place sits atop the Thamrin City Mall, a 10-storey shopping mall in central Jakarta,

 

Cosmo Park has been around for about 14 years, but few knew about its existence outside the bustling Indonesian capital until 2019, when a photo shared on Twitter went viral, now after a few years have passed properties are now offered for sale or rent, this listing January 2023, above a short video,

 

this video is a tad longer, a mug of coffee should see it through, just a thought, I hope the building the complex is built on had a survey done on it to make sure it could cope with the weight of the village! but what a neat place to live, in the centre of things in the city, but in peace and quiet.