Gwanggyo Power Centre by MVRDV
Dutch atchitects MVRDV have won a competition to design a city centre for Gwanggyo, a new town south of Seoul, Korea.
荷兰建筑师MVRDV赢得了韩国首尔南部新城Gwanggyo城市中心设计。

The design consists of skinny, hill-shaped buildings that contain housing, offices, parking, retail, leisure, and educational spaces. Although the concept plan is currently under review for feasibility and cost estimations, if everything moves forward, Gwanggyo Power Centre will become a self-sustaining town of 77,000 inhabitants.
该城市中心由数栋建筑组成，这些建筑可用于居住、办公、停车、零售、休闲以及教育等。虽然目前这一概念设计因可行性、建设成本评估等需要复审，但如果事情顺利的话，Gwanggyo权利中心将成为一座拥有77,000 居民的独立新城。

“This diverse program has different needs for phasing, positioning and size,”say the architects. “To facilitate this all elements are designed as rings. By pushing these rings outwards, every part of the program receives a terrace for outdoor life.”
The Power Centre is remarkably green, but that’s all for a purpose. The design is intended to mimic and link to the lake and hills (and the natural environment surrounding the site). It was conceived in rings because the town has different needs for phasing, positioning, and size. Every structure has a terrace with plantations for outdoor life. The plantations are fed by a floor-to-floor circulation system that stores water for irrigation. The end result is a vertical park that reduces energy and water usage.
The towers each feature prominent voids that act as atriums, lobbies, and plazas and also provide light and ventilation. Gwanggyo Power Centre, as currently planned, anticipates having over 2 million square feet for housing, 2 million square feet for parking, 500 thousand square feet for offices, and over 2 million square feet for culture, retail, leisure, and education. That’s a development comprising ~6.5 million square feet of space.
Completion of the development is envisioned for 2011.