Districts
Vertical neighborhoods. Elevation as geography.
Origin contains 2,860 floors. Density without neighborhoods is chaos. Origin is organized into vertical districts — neighborhoods at elevation rather than at distance.
The Pentagon has Rings A through E. Manhattan has Tribeca, Midtown, Harlem. Origin's districts span the Spire and Pillars at common elevation bands, tied together by skybridge transit at every 100 floors.
Six tiers, six districts
| Tier | Floors | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 1–100 | Civic, transit, hospital, public services, retail |
| Common | 101–200 | Coliseum, Concert Hall, mid-market commercial, university lecture floors |
| Mid | 201–300 | Office cores, residential mid-tier, university residences |
| Upper | 301–400 | Premium residential, executive office, agricultural floors |
| High | 401–500 | Luxury residential, specialty research, faculty residences |
| Crown | 501–600 | Sky manors, NeuraWeb HQ executive, clinical research |
| Apex | 601–660 (Spire only) | Telescope, civic observation, priceless residential |
Pending Floor-by-floor allocation between districts and Pillars.
Districts can also span by Pillar
Open question: do districts run horizontally (same elevation across all six structures) or vertically (each Pillar gets its own internal district pattern)? Decision likely hybrid — Foundation and Apex run horizontally because they are unique; mid-tier districts run vertically because Pillars develop their own character.
Who reaches which floors
Foundation, Coliseum/Concert tiers, Apex observation: public access with .nw identity check at transit. Residential districts: residents and their guests. Office districts: tenant verification at entry. Crown and Apex residential: by arrangement. Identity-based access through .nw at every transit point — no anonymous movement above Foundation.
How districts connect
Express elevators run between sky lobbies at every 100 floors (the same elevations as the structural skybridges, by design). Local elevators serve floors within a district. Skybridge transit moves people horizontally between Pillars and the Spire at each tier. See Transit.