The ‘sweatshop’ plays a clear role in the Chinese society; it is the step up from subsistence farming, it teaches industrial skills, and it provides its workers with campus-style life-luxuries of dormitories and recreation. The factory-town mentality, though, results in spatial inefficiencies. While the factory is bustling during the day the dormitories lay empty. By combining the spatial necessities of factory work and modern life, the Sweat+Shop serves as a logical next step in the sequence through offering leasable work+live pods connected to a community recreation center and market.