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pkang0202
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 Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: Korea's Futuristic Green City |
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http://www.greenmuze.com/build/design/638-futuristic-green-city.html
It has some concept art. I think its ugly as hell.
Keep in mind, its a Dutch Design Company, not Korean, that drew up the concept.
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| MVRDV, a Dutch design company, recently won a competition to design the self-sufficient Gwanggyo City Centre near Seoul, South Korea. These concept drawings showing a futuristic looking city are the first images of the new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The design plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings built to encourage high urban density and further developments around the Gwanggyo Power Centre. |
Who wanst to live here? |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I do. |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Strong overtures of Biomimicry by the looks of it which is interesting. I think it looks good. Much better than the formulaic brutalism we usually see in Korean concrete apartment blocks. After energy, I think the construction industry is both the biggest polluter and heaviest consumers of raw materials so it's not surprising that new approaches are being considered. It's just a shame that these new approaches weren't taking place decades ago. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| It will not be built. I'm captain obvious. |
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Jandar
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Where's the convenience store? Oh, in the green building. Great. How do I get there? ... Oh I see, I walk past the short green building, and take a right at the tallish green building with a retangualr green building, and I'll see it in one of the green buildings on my right. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
Where's the convenience store? Oh, in the green building. Great. How do I get there? ... Oh I see, I walk past the short green building, and take a right at the tallish green building with a retangualr green building, and I'll see it in one of the green buildings on my right. |
Maybe you haven't noticed but most Korean apartment buildings look all the same and the questions that you have just posed could just as easily be directed at them. This development is at the very least a break from the normal humdrum style of architecture that Korea is famous for. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't know if the Koreans will go for something that looks like it belongs in Thailand. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
| Don't know if the Koreans will go for something that looks like it belongs in Thailand. |
Why wouldn't they? They've gone for much, much worse already. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| blade wrote: |
Maybe you haven't noticed but most Korean apartment buildings look all the same and the questions that you have just posed could just as easily be directed at them. This development is at the very least a break from the normal humdrum style of architecture that Korea is famous for. |
I can tell the apartments apart. On one side you'll have a row that says "Lotte Castle". On the other side you have a row that says "BrownStone". Next to the apartment buildings are, GASP!, SIGNS!!!
None of which I see in this city that looks like the Return of the Swamp Thing.
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/695/
All of those buildings are "Green" and don't look like piles of green turds. |
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doc_ido
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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200 000 square meters of parking? They'd have done better to build a bus station (but maybe the fumes will be absorbed by all the plants).
I would live there - I'd love terrace space for a window box. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't say I'm a fan of those green bee hive-looking things, but about 10 years ago there was a surge of Walt Disneyesque cartoon-style buildings all over the country. Many of those buildings are cool. Some have phallic towers on the side. It would have made Freud's day, I'm sure. Anyway, there were elements of traditional Korean architecture included. If anyone asked me, I'd recommend some version of that style be adopted. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| blade wrote: |
| some waygug-in wrote: |
| Don't know if the Koreans will go for something that looks like it belongs in Thailand. |
Why wouldn't they? They've gone for much, much worse already. |
I don't know if they would or wouldn't, but Koreans are so nationalistic they might balk at something that looks more Thai than Korean. |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Regarding the aesthetic, which is what seems to be irking most here, I take the view that architecture is an emergent process; It should change. I like the fact that these renderings, and as opposed to those in that ecogeek link, as stunning as they are, represent a departure from the symmetrical.
I also don't agree that the buildings look too 'uniform' and that this will somehow result in people not knowing where they are going. As well as having different heights and radii, the buildings also appear to be defined spatially with landscaping.
It looks as if the designers have gained inspiration from termite mounds as it looks like there's some kind of subterranean civic space going on inbetween the buildings. This will probably help regulate the airflow and keep the buildings cooler in the Summer reducing aircon use. |
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