IPARK Blocks

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UN Studio [architect.]

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Computer filePublication details: UrbanNext, October 10, 2017.Description: 813 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: Following its implementation as a result of the rapid urbanisation of the booming middle class in South Korea, apartment living continues to be the most popular type of housing in the country. In cities across South Korea this type of housing can be found stacked in identical, densely packed utilitarian blocks. In 2012 UNStudio was invited by the Hyundai Development Company to propose a design intervention for two new residential developments in Daegu Wolbae which would counteract this prevailing utilitarian approach and instead create distinct identities across multiple scales. The result was a provocative yet investigative, affordable and health-focused proposal to break with the impersonal homogeneity and the tradition of high-density living in South Korea

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Collective housing (128) ,
Technological Approach (256) ,
South Korea (49) ,
Seoul (44) ,
Project (1170) ,
Housing (336) ,
Daegu (2) ,
Community Facilities (71) ,
Community (346) ,
Tower (47)

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High Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, UNStudio

Collective housing, Community, Community Facilities, Daegu, Housing, Project, Seoul, South Korea, Technological Approach, Tower

Following its implementation as a result of the rapid urbanisation of the booming middle class in South Korea, apartment living continues to be the most popular type of housing in the country. In cities across South Korea this type of housing can be found stacked in identical, densely packed utilitarian blocks.
In 2012 UNStudio was invited by the Hyundai Development Company to propose a design intervention for two new residential developments in Daegu Wolbae which would counteract this prevailing utilitarian approach and instead create distinct identities across multiple scales. The result was a provocative yet investigative, affordable and health-focused proposal to break with the impersonal homogeneity and the tradition of high-density living in South Korea

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