Self-Sustainable City of Green Rings to be Built in South Korea
April 21, 2009 · Print This Article
Gwanggyo, a new city to be built south of Seoul, South Korea, will get a futuristic, green city center designed by Dutch architecture group MVRDV. The town is planned to be self-sufficient, with 77,000 inhabitants, and the buildings in its center will be unlike any others in the world. MVRDV won a competition to design the city center.
From Meta Efficient:
The architects say that all the elements of the city center will be design as rings, and “by pushing these rings outwards, every part of the program receives a terrace for outdoor life.”
Box hedges will be planted on the terraces and roofs of the buildings. The intention is to improve ventilation, and reduce energy and water usage.
The shifting of the floors causes as a counter effect hollow cores that form large atriums. They serve as lobbies for the housing and offices, plazas for the shopping center and halls for the museum and leisure functions. In each tower a number of voids connect to the atrium providing for light and ventilation and creating semi-public spaces.
Interesting concept… with the rings of greenery and large glass walls, you feel a connection with the outdoors no matter what floor you’re on. Such a design would practically eliminate the claustrophobic feeling one can get when surrounded by concrete and steel in city environments. Details on exactly how the city would be self-sustainable are thin, but it will be interesting to see how this concept will translate to real life once it’s completed in 2011.
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