IPARK Blocks: Identities Across Multiple Scales

High Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, UNStudio, Urban Paradigms

City, Collective housing, Colour, Community, Community Facilities, Courtyard, Daegu, Façade, Health contributor, High-rise, Housing, Identity, New urban lifestyles, Project, Scale, Seoul, South Korea, Technological Approach, Tower, Urban Paradigms, Well-being

Photography: Rohspace

Creating identity on an urban and a human scale
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.