MVRDV wins Gwanggyo City Centre Competition, near Seoul, South Korea
The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with great programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called ”˜Power Centre’, one of the envisioned two centre’s of the future new town.
The future of architecture (and maybe is its end) is resolving the urban and nature split. Many years ago, Oparin, a brilliant Soviet biochemist, insisted that no real line existed between the organic and the inorganic, the dead and the living. All of the behaviors of a rock could be found in a fly or a bird. For Oparin, it was not a matter of being and not being but of intensity—fast/slow, cool/hot, dark/light. This fundamental continuity from the lifeless to the living is now what is being expressed in the new urbanism.
Exactly.
No matter the technology, landlords in Seattle will find a way to charge 200% more than anywhere else for a 1 bedroom.
Diedre of the Gaians?
How do you incorporate a real ecosystem with biodiversity, not just gardens (which are not nature) with the urban? I don’t think you can.
As the nature of architecture changes so must our perceptions of what it actually is.
This from UW’s University Week Sept 22,08: University of Washington architecture and urban planning renamed the College of Built Environments
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=…
I like to imagine the drifts of dead leaves littering this sparkling plaza. Swarms of bees? Bird shit? People don’t really like nature. They like the facsimile of nature that is the architectural Chia Pet.
I hung out near seoul for a little while and couldn’t help but notice the use of the word “power” in most commercialized slogans. Green is a nice color for for Korea, especially considering how much farmland/ paddy the US had to purchase to move all of thier garrisons south of seoul.