Songdo International Business District
Songdo City, New Songdo City, or also called Songdo New City, is a planned city as part of the metropolis of Incheon in South Korea. The area is located about 40 kilometers southwest from the center of the capital, Seoul.
Plan City on artificial land
On a southern Incheon Yeonsu -gu district of the Wadden Sea reclaimed polder area of 6 square kilometers will be built in three phases from 2003 to about 2020, the Songdu International Business District ( Songdo IBD). The urbanization is designed for a population of 70,000 people. In June 2012, 22,000 residents lived in Songdo. The project is integrated into the launched by the city of Incheon on the way free trade zone Incheon Free Economic Zone ( IFEZ ) belong to the still parts of the seaport of Incheon and Incheon International Airport. The IFEZ is to create jobs for 340,000 people and is estimated at a total of 40 billion U.S. dollars. The urbanization is a cooperative project of the Korean company POSCO and the American real estate developer Gale International, based in New York City. The master plan is derived from the group of architects Kohn Pedersen Fox ( KPF ). Intended Works: living area of approximately 3.2 million square meters and approximately 4.7 million square feet of office, commercial and public spaces will be created. The total produced here building mass should correspond to that of Boston City.
The overall project is designed for three phases from 2003 to 2020: Phase 1-2009, 2-2014 phase, Phase 3 by 2020.
For a larger city plan, the plant could be found no suitable land in the entire metropolitan Seoul, practically every major buildable area is already occupied. The regional planners and their private investors had the intention to build a new city " of a piece", which combines the following advantages:
- Global convenient location in East Asia, in 3.5 -hour flight will reach 34 % of world population
- Short distance to the Incheon International Airport
- Concentration of financial center, business space and technology center
- Living, working and leisure time in a sustainability-oriented community
- Internationally recognized, certified environmental standards in the construction and operation of the planned city
- Priority to environmentally friendly private and public transport
- Educational, cultural, and shopping, as well as health services on site
- 40 percent of the areas as parks, green spaces and recreational areas
- To produce an urban flair, the streets are bordered with medium high houses.
As a major issues for Songdo City to specify: International Business Complex, Industrial knowledge and information complex, high-tech Bio Complex, Songdo residential city and central city, high-tech industrial area and a complex for port operations and port services ( new port logistics, air logistics, etc.).
Architectural history and planning status
After approval of the Master Plan 2003, located about 8 km from the center of Incheon's artificial surfaces were created. The Watt polder with approximately 14 kilometer long dikes have been filled with about 4 million cubic meters of soil and mechanically compacted, which has been criticized by environmentalists and animal welfare. Because of the silt -containing subsoil most buildings must be protected with deep pile foundations. After completion of the supply infrastructure, the first buildings were erected in 2004. The urban center in Songdo City is the Convention Center Convensia in harmony with the 305 meter high Northeast Asia Trade Tower and lying at the foot shopping center Riverstone Retail Mall. The architecture of the Sydney Opera House, inspired conference center with 144 meters wide, fully support non- halls was begun in 2005 and opened in October 2008.
In August 2009, the 40 -acre Central Park was opened. He has a seewassergefülltem channel with a water taxi service.
In September 2009, the University of Incheon moved into its new campus for nearly 13,000 students in the development area. In September 2010, the Chadwick International School opened for 2,100 students. The Yonsei University opened the so-called International Campus in 2010, which provoked criticism.
Also in 2010, the exterior golf course with a few hundred built villas plots of land, 25 kilometers of bike paths and the central Northeast Asia Trade Tower was finished. In addition to this there are 9 other skyscrapers skyscrapers 170-235 meters. In the residential buildings that are built to a large extent as a high-rise apartments, several quarters were already completed.
A hospital of international standard is to be opened in late 2015. Also based on the architecture of the Sydney Opera House - - On cultural institutions a coast near theater and a museum are planned in Central Park.
A special feature is the pneumatic waste collection network dar. Similarly, the pneumatic tube, the waste from each throw point out in special containers with compressed air in a power plant are transported to the biogas production.
Transport links
The most important argument for the good marketability of the city plan is its in Seoul area fast connection to the Incheon International Airport. Since 26 October 2009, the Incheon Bridge is opened on the airport island Yeongjong. For trips from Songdo City to the terminal are needed barely 20 minutes. Also for trips from Seoul and most cities of the agglomeration, the new bridge a more than one-hour reduction compared to the previous northern bridge to the Airport Expressway.
Private transport gets a wide road network, but is possible disappear in underground car parks, vehicles with low emissions receive priority Einstellplätze. For electric vehicles charging stations will be offered sufficient.
Public transport is operated via an extension of the Line 1 of the subway Incheon, first to the south ( university) and then moves to the west ( Central Park ) applies. This line is connected via Incheon center with the metro Seoul; However, the journey to the northern center of Seoul is time consuming with about 40 stops. For the dispersion from the metro stations in Songdo City buses make.