Vertical Cities

New design concepts for an ageing community

‘Everybody Ages’ was the theme of the second Vertical Cities Asia, a design competition organized by the National University of Singapore. Twenty teams from Asian, American and European universities rose to the challenge and redesigned one square kilometre of land in the centre of Seoul, South Korea. Victory went to Delft, with both teams from the Faculty of Architecture winning joint first prize. Katerina Salonikidi, Maria Stamati, Stef Bogaerds and Jan Maarten Mulder were part of the winning teams. A great achievement, but they have not let it go to their heads: ‘The most important thing was doing a good job’, Maria Stamati says.

Read the article (pdf) published in TU Delft highlights 2012