Country Garden Forest City, South East Asia Buildings, Architecture Competition, Images
Country Garden Forest City in Malaysia
Concept City Design in Malaysia – design by LAVA, architects
27 Jan 2017
Country Garden Forest City
Architects: LAVA
Location: Malaysia
LAVA has won 2nd prize in an international competition to design a new city in Malaysia – Country Garden Forest City

Chris Bosse, director of LAVA, explains: ?Skylines across the world look the same – usually a couple of iconic towers in the centre surrounded by lots of lesser quality buildings, which all resemble each other.?

?Here we have designed an inverse city skyline where the icon of the city is a public space, not an object/building. Our central space is a Rainforest Valley and demonstrates the equation: PEOPLE = CITY. From an object to a place.?
Forest City, by Chinese developer Country Garden, is a new 20 square kilometre green smart city in southern Malaysia. Located on reclaimed land between Malaysia and Singapore, it will house 700,000 people with office towers, parks, hotels, shopping malls and an international school.

The competition for a 24-hectare site within the development sought designs that improve the efficiency of land use, enhance the quality of space and environment, and include a landmark building embodying the notion of a forest city.

Future city notions are embedded into LAVA?s overall concept ? a ?public city?, a central public space surrounded by buildings...