Gwanggyo Green Power Center: South Korea’s self-sufficient city of the future
Rotterdam-based architects MVRDV recently won the Gwanggyo City Centre Competition with their design of an incredible new city just south of Seoul, South Korea. Envisioned as a verdant acropolis of organic ‘hill’ structures, the proposed complex is a fully self-sufficient city for up to 77,000 inhabitants.
The Dutch firm MVRDV has designed a fully sustainable city in the center of Gwanggyo, which is located near Seoul in South Korea. The project, Gwanggyo Power Center, looks like something from the movies: is a series of large hill-shaped structures, with outdoor terraces and plantations for storing water. The vertical design and landscape will improve the climate and ventilation and reduce energy use and water. The concept provides space for housing, offices, shops, and educational facilities. An internal irrigation system stores extra water from the buildings and uses it to sustain these green facades.
The Gwanggyo Green Power Center is completely self-sufficient, and can accommodate 77 thousand inhabitants. Also, the project will also be effective in reducing dependency on automobile or train travel and building a strong sense of community. The estimated budget and deadlines are still not defined, but the project’s completion is scheduled for 2011.
The project is innovative and intriguing, and although it may seem a bit far-fetched, this city centers may become a new future trend. It is important to stress the need for self-sustainability and energy efficiency in our future cities, and the Gwanggyo Green Power Center is a great start.
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Hello. I am a one of students who are studying envrionment(renewable energy).
My master thesis about introduction renewable energy to small community in South Korea. The reason why i choosed South Korea recently Korea has inveted to reweable energy so that politicains consider reweable energy more than few years ago. In addition, I believe that Korea has many environmental problems, though they have many big companies lanked high in the world.NOw is time to introduce renewable energy.
By the way, I have been chosing which community i have to focus on in my thesis. Then i found this city. I beleive it is possible to introduce renewable energy in this city. I would like to introduce solar enegy. It is really effeciency and good investment for this city. After few years they can get definitly benefit.
Anyways, I am really interested in this project. I do not know whether this project finished or not.
However, please send me your comment about my idea.
Thank you.
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