Archive for 2012

VERTICAL VILLAGE in Taipei

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012


MUTOPIA’s Vertical Village proposal for a new space effective and socially sustainable vertical neighborhood in Copenhagen made of stacked family houses is part of the exhibition Vertical Village in Taipei, Taiwan, by Dutch practice MVRDV.


Produced by The Why Factory, MVRDV’s research think tank based at TU Delft University, The Vertical Village analyzes the rapid urban transformation occurring in East Asia, and assesses the qualities of informal settlements as an alternative to the rapid and monotonous block urbanization of Asian cities from Taipei to Tokyo, Beijing to Bangkok.


The exhibition is the result of a three-year long research project, commissioned by the JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture, the cultural branch of the JUT Group, Taiwan’s leading luxury housing developer.


http://www.jut-arts.org.tw/theverticalvillage/

http://www.mvrdv.nl/#/undefined/verticalvillageexhibitionopensintaipei

Densifying Suburbs

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Suburban development is the most rapidly expanding driver of land use change in Europe.

The rapid expansion of the urban sprawl has many negative social and environmental impacts which call for new models for growth of these urban environments to achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability.


Serban Cornea will deliver a lecture on densification strategies as a means of creating sustainable development and attractiveness in future suburbs at “Future suburbs”, a conference on potentials for transformation of Danish suburbs towards becoming sustainable living environments.


The event is organized by The Danish Society of Engineers (IDA), and will take place at Nordkraft, Aalborg the 7th of February 2012.


http://ida.dk/Sider/Forside.aspx

http://www.nordkraft.dk/Vejviser.aspx?ID=7

SPARK – a new sports park

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

OKS (Odense Comrades’ Sportsclub) have decided to commission MUTOPIA to develop a new concept for a public recreative space in central Odense – a sports park dubbed ‘Spark’.


The park will feature a double layered functionality, for sports, football, exercise and play, while also staging an informal open social space.


Spark is scheduled to open May 2013.