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I mean the thing with your idea is that it rounds to being either a mass dormitory(which westerners don’t want to live in) or an apartment complex(which we’re assuming there’s plenty of).
I'm not sure there's really an option for this - how many places are really set up for multiple families to live? Mass dormitories, in my mind, map to "row of bunk beds in a room, low quality food", not "each family has three bedrooms and a private living room, plus there's a kitchen for every four families". And apartment complexes are generally set up without coherent common areas; you step out of your room and you're in a hallway whose sole purpose is to be a hallway.
As an extremely rough example, I'm kinda envisioning something with this basic concept. Bottom-left chunk is one family area, with three bedrooms and a private living area; there's four of those surrounding the common area (pretend that's copy-pasted, I couldn't find a copy-paste tool on this site), common area includes kitchen and relaxation areas and play areas. Maybe stack two to four of these on top of each other. The proportions are completely wrong and also I didn't put in, like, bathrooms, so obviously this is not a finished version, but that's the basic idea; get people interacting together.
(I'd probably want to set up some way that people could easily open their Private Living Area to the main area if they wanted, like, maybe just turn that into a sliding wall or something, I don't know. Something to make it feel less like a wall with a door in it but still closeable for privacy. This is not an easy thing to solve.)
(edit: this specific plan comes out to ~10,000 square feet for four families, which is actually not as far off from "reasonable" as I'd expected)
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