RURAL CITY

BUILDING AREA:

105,256SF

PROJECT DATE:

December 2021

PROGRAM:

Multi-family Residence

GROUP PROJECT

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE RECOGNITION IN THE HOME COMPETITION 2021, ARCH OUT LOUD

Rural City is a paradigm for future living condition. Abundant rural land makes it possible to overturn high-rise apartments to single-story row houses, where resources are equally possessed, and personality is dissimilarly developed. The optimized circular form creates two different environments and experiences on both sides of the community: an idyllic rural landscape with open, endless fields, and a more familiar city park surrounded by the transparent façade and distinct skyline.

This atypical deurbanization process is not just a reflective response to the increasingly congested urban built environment and highpressure lifestyle of citizens. Social attributes and effective agglomeration of cities are reserved in form of row houses, assembly workspace and various communal spaces. The definitions of citizens and villagers are vague here. By approaching the two different contexts, a binary space of urban and rural, and a better balance between ease and efficiency are able to be realized.