By inserting these new hills in and around the current cities, a sincere Chinese mountain range appears. Blending individuality with collective responsibilities, connecting architecture with urbanism and turning urbanism into landscape architecture.
Saturday the 28th will see the launch of the catchingly titled ‘Green Projects II, three dimensional city: future China’ at Beijing Centre for the Arts. The central piece in this exhibition is ‘China Hills’ by Dutch architects MVRDV, which presents an innovative solution to potential urbanization problems in China.
The architects call it ‘a dream for future cities’, and as the image above goes some way to showing, it is a series of artificial mountains that mix housing, retail, agriculture, and energy production, with the potential to accommodate 100,000 people.
China has experienced massive growth and urbanization in the last twenty years, and in 2008 they became a predominantly urban country for the first time. If this trend continues, ‘China Hills’ could become a reality.
