Eco-Friendly Urban Center: Sustainable City of the Future
MVDRV is
a (post)modern architectural and urban design firm well-known for their
surrealistic interpretations of city living and fantastic visions for
the future of urban design, but few of their conceptual designs see the
bright light of day - or the cool layered lights of night, shown above
in their winning design for a new city center in Korea.
The mixed use set of mounded towers are at once clearly artificial
but also layered with organic material, each level having its own green
terrace to the outside world and exposure to the surrounding
environment, natural hills that ring the new development. Live, work,
shopping, entertainment and educational spaces are all built into the
layers of this futuristic urban design. Exterior homes ring interior
atrium spaces that are filled with institutional uses from stores and
restaurants to museums and theater spaces.
On the lower levels of the
design, thin layers give way to thicker ones packed with commercial
uses and common spaces for public interaction. The cultural life of
this self-contained city is focused internally yet the structural forms
of the rising buildings and the box-hedged terraces that ring them speak
to and have views out on the surrounding natural landscapes, tying this
new urban design to existing environmental formations.
Futuristic Artifical Island Designs
The
winning design is a colorful and vibrant work of imaginative urbanism,
depicting a world on the water not unlike life on land with winding
paths, city squares, mixed uses and traditional architecture. Like a
slice lifted from the heart of an old European town this Swimming City
concept sits on four pillars with room to pass beneath it and the
remnants of its removal showing on all sides.
Almost
more a luxury resort hotel than a city on the sea, the winner of the
best picture award certainly warrants its prize for the compelling
visual cacophony of the above rendering. The image shows off tropical
beach-like edges with premium condos jutting out to overlook the water
and a dense core of mixed-use functions.
Deemed
to have the most personality, this runner-up design is as much about
change over time as it is about a fixed work of construction. The idea
is a simple, modular mixed-use city-on-a-platform that has the freedom
to evolve and expand as needed – forever a work of urban design in
progress. In the realm of aesthetics this design was elected the
winner, perhaps in part for the way it shows off its green design
strategies in the look of the structure itself. Shaped to channel wind,
bring in solar energy and passively cool (as well as feed) the
residential population within, this enclosed city structure is
eco-friendly in appearance as well as in practice.
It may be no
surprise that this last design won the peoples’ choice award. It recalls
both the form of a modern city square as well as the oil rigs and other
converted architectural remnants of the world’s oceans we have come to
associate with creative conversions and liberation from the laws of
society and government alike.
Source : http://www.natyu.com
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