SHOP

Invited Competition

SHoP’s design proposal for the World Business Center Busan (WBCB) complex begins by combining the traditional Korean courtyard type (Madang) with contemporary high-rise living to create a new urban ecology: the “vertical garden”. The parkscape surrounding the base for the WBCB is drawn up into the towers to produce vertical gardens of planted bamboo. These bamboo gardens will be used to modulate airflow and wind-loading on the towers, as well as, act as “green lungs” for the buildings and providing fresh air to the units. Each unit will have its own intimate connection with these gardens and at the same time share expansive views of the ocean, river and surrounding landscape.