Seoul Commune 2026

Why does everything that’s marked for the future have to be ostentatious and bubble like? The projections for the Seoul Commune 2026 buildings look as though they were constructed by giant honey bee’s as shelter for their larvae. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a proponent for novel design, but is that grass growing on the sides of the buildings; how does that work?
Korean society continues to grow rapidly in both technological and socio-cultural terms, therefore, the Seoul Commune 2026 has investigated the viability of an alternative and sustainable community structure in the overpopulated metropolises of the not too distant future. The imagined community is integrated within the developments of the digital and social age; which apparently suggests that humans will soon wish to live like insects.

Seoul Commune 2026 forms a complex network of private, semi-public, and public spaces by uniting towers with the park in a balanced way. “Towers in the park,” a relatively new Asian urban spatial structure, is swiftly gaining in popularity and replacing the slab apartment buildings that dominated the Korean urban landscape over the past 40 years. The creation of junctions between interior/exterior and public/private space on a variety of scales accommodates various residential activities and facilitates spontaneous social interactions. Now, as long as drones of people wearing silver jumps suits aren’t guided through their day be a monotone voice resonating over a load speaker, this idea might actually work.
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