Hotel-style serviced apartments such as Lily Apartments have become an indispensable new residence type in modern cities. Compared with traditional apartments or suburban villas, although this type of small dwellings may appear simple, it actually puts more requirements on quality. The target buyers are those who already own a well facilitated residence in downtown or suburb, but are in need of a second property due to business or personal reasons. They want a second home where they can enjoy hotel style services and actually own the property. The other type of target buyers are those who have not formed complicated family structures, and daily life relies on commercial service. For them, dwelling is only the private part of all the content of their life. This determines the basic characteristic of such residences, that is private and low-key - for the installation of a public area, what is important is not how well it is equipped with all sorts of facilities, but to establish a buffer zone between personal private space and public space.

For a land that is located in a mature downtown area like where Lily Apartments are, if we follow popular trends to design it, we might easily lose our competitiveness due to the difficulty of creating a top notch community. However, if we position it as hotel-style serviced apartments, it can not only take the advantage of downtown's rich service resource market, but also avoid the limitation of a small scale land. To fully reflect the property's value, it should have some unique characteristics that cannot be copied. With this thought in mind, we then decide on the scale and form of public area as well as interior and exterior style and materials.