how to treat a bldg or 896 cubes

Here is depicted the main idea of scaling down the volume of these rigid buildings. Instead of one large volume we can think of this as a vessel of boxes (1 box can equal 1 room). What if we start displacing these cubes or moving them in and out? In that way more open space per floor can be achieved and balconies can added at people’s daily life. So the volume of the building will start growing since the mass of it will remain the same in order to have more space per person.