A residential building complex, based on the idea of a maze. A resident or pedestrian needs to navigate a correct set of turns to make it to the other side of the complex. Each building only has windows that face north and south to optimize daylighting. And these maze pathways made by the buildings and hedge walls act as shading devices for all the windows. The hedge walls are vertical gardens; these plants also are a great passive cooling strategy to lower the temperature of the mat building complex.