ParkLife

Competition Entry | MOLEWA | China

ParkLife is a highly original and bold alternative mode of green communal living. It is a reinvention of the traditional Chinese building typology of the courtyard house which has been transformed into a high-density vertical equivalent in which privacy and ownership, as well as community and identity are guaranteed. Parcel 14 is used to showcase how this new model for high density residences can be created in harmonious symbioses with nature by turning the building itself into a beautiful.

Night view of Plot 14’s Green Building for Communal Living spectacle of flowers and green. The competition design challenge is here answered with a unique architectural project that allows inhabitants of the neighborhood to live their happy lives privately and discreetly separated from the many anticipated guests and cultural tourists that will come to visit this ever-changing, colourful and living green housing project.