MVRDV, The Vertical Village exhibition

Starting out on the basis of the consideration that cities in eastern Asia are subject to growing urbanisation and increasing population density, leading to construction of gigantic buildings in the form of towers, blocks or slabs, the exhibition presented by MVRDV and The Why Factory with the JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture raises the question of possible alternatives.

Alternatives which would preserve the quality of rural villages based on lightweight small-scale constructions such as the Hutongs of Beijing, the wooden houses of Tokyo, the villages of Singapore or the individual houses of Taipei and other cities in eastern Asia.
Villages with intense social connections, highly individual and different from one another, being replaced by homes built to a western standard under today's architectural solutions, which are inexpensive but devoid of differentiation and individual expressiveness.
MVRDV and The Why Factory analyse and explore a likely alternative: the vertical village.
Visitors to the exhibition can design their own ideal home and develop a vertical village using parametric software developed by MVRDV and The Why Factory.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Dates: October 8 2011 - January 8 2012
Location: Tapei, Taiwan
Illustrations: courtesy of MVRDV

www.mvrdv.nl
www.jut-arts.org.tw

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