Among the participants are the Dutch MVRDV, the Dane Julien De Schmedt, the Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Toshiko Mori, the Spaniard Fernando Menis, as well as 10 Taiwanese architects.
Construction of Next-Gene20 residential complex will begin in July 2008 and finish at the end of 2009.
The villa, designed by Kengo Kuma, is called Aimai, which means mysterious. This name also defines the idea of the project: this word means in Japanese an unclear, indefinite state or business. The building does not have a clear boundary between the external space and the interior, natural and artificial: the building and the natural environment gradually flow into one another. Kuma used complex topography to make the building almost disappear into thin air.
Julien De Schmedt (JDS) connected his villa with the landscape through a special organization of the interior space: the rooms in his building are like artificial waves that turn into rooms with panoramic views. According to him, he created architecture from nature, his construction uses the environment without adding anything to the landscape: this is an example of a kind of symbiosis. The villa faces beautiful views of the surroundings, but protects itself from outside views.
