City Of Green Rings To Be Built In Korea

by Justin on April 20, 2009


Gwanggyo City Centre By MVRDV: A Green City

A Dutch architecture group MVRDV have won a competition to design a city center for Gwanggyo, a new city which could be built south of Seoul, Korea. The town is planned to be a self-sufficient city of 77,000 inhabitants.

The architects say that all the elements of the city centre will be design as rings, and “by pushing these rings outwards, every part of the program receives a terrace for outdoor life.”

Gwanggyo City Center: Green Terraces and Buildings

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.

Gwanggyo City Center

Gwanggyo Power Center

Via: Dezeen

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EfiiciencySeeker April 22, 2009 at 4:48 am

I hope that they are not going to displace natural land to build the city.

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jay May 22, 2009 at 11:07 am

i think this is a good idea and it loooks pretty sweel to me :)

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zach aylward May 22, 2009 at 11:07 am

<3

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popcorn May 22, 2009 at 11:17 am

this is a great idea i really like

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strebs May 26, 2009 at 7:50 pm

That’s beautiful! Cities need more of this!

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Brian August 1, 2009 at 11:59 am

I think this looks wicked. Notice the lack of bill boards. In reality this place would be saturated with ugly advertising. Fact.

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DarkAngelJustine October 24, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Wow this is just AMAZING…i love it i cant believe this isnt everywhere!!!

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