《As cities grow taller, are people actually growing closer?》
As cities grow taller, are people actually growing closer?
Exploring Community Connections in High-Density Cities
探索高密度都市下的社群連結
In today’s fast-developing urban landscape, high-rise buildings have become the standard for dense development.
But this raises an important question: does vertical growth bring people closer together, or push them further apart?
隨著都市向上成長的趨勢下，「高樓層」幾乎成了密集開發的標準配置。
然而，我們不禁想問：當建築越蓋越高，人與人之間的距離，是更近了，還是更遠了？
With limited land and rapidly growing populations, traditional ground-level communities are no longer enough.
While modern high-rises aim to house more people and provide better views and airflow, they often weaken the bonds between neighbors.
A person living on the 50th floor might never meet the one on the 49th.
在全球都市人口快速成長、土地資源有限的背景下，傳統的社區已難以負荷住房需求，與此同時，傳統的高樓設計，儘管旨在容納更多人口、提供更佳視野與通風，卻也無形中削弱了鄰里關係的連結。
住在50樓的住戶，可能連49樓的鄰居都未曾碰面。
《The Vertical Village》, MVRDV
To address this growing sense of urban isolation, architects are reimagining the way we live in cities.
The concept of the Vertical Village offers a new kind of high-rise living. It brings the density of a tower together with the social warmth and diversity of a village.
因此建築師們開始思考，如何在高密度都市中減少這種疏離感。
「垂直村落」（Vertical Village）便是對此挑戰的創新回應。這是一種高密度城市住宅概念，它嘗試將「村落」那種緊密、社區凝聚力以及多樣性的生活型態搬進高樓建築之中。
Metropolitan Tower, Chicago
Vertical villages are very different from the design logic of conventional high-rise buildings. Traditional high-rise buildings emphasize density and efficiency, with space and movement lines relatively closed off, and public space limited to first-floor lobbies or top-floor facilities, so residents' lives are almost cut off from each other.
They provide a “private, safe and isolated” urban life.
垂直村落與一般高樓層大樓的設計邏輯截然不同。傳統高樓建築多半強調密度與效率，空間和動線相對封閉，公共空間也多侷限於一樓大廳或頂層設施，居民彼此的生活幾乎是切割開來的。它們提供的是一種「私密、安全卻孤立」的都市生活。
In contrast, a vertical village includes layers of public life throughout the building.
Sky gardens, open corridors, and shared bridges allow people to meet, pause, and connect—no matter what floor they live on.
相形之下，垂直村落則嘗試打破這種封閉結構，透過橫向與垂直交錯的空間設計，將生活中不可或缺的公共空間、綠化環境和多樣化的功能垂直地植入建築之中。
你可以在10樓的空中花園遇見鄰居，或在樓間空橋上與朋友喝杯咖啡。它將原本屬於平面街區的鄰里關係，在高層空間中重新編織。
Kampung Admiralty, Singapore
The concept of vertical village makes the building no longer just a single-function residential space, but also introduces complex functions such as commerce, office, leisure, etc., so that the building is not just a container for life, but a three-dimensional and full of intersections of a small city.
垂直村落的概念讓建築不再只是單一功能的住宅空間，它導入了商業、辦公、休閒等複合機能，使建築不只是生活的容器，而是一座立體且充滿交集的小型城市。
This change is more like a “reorganization of urban life philosophy”, which makes us rethink: when there is no more large land in the city for expansion, can buildings become new village containers, carrying not only the life itself, but also the community culture of interaction, trust and coexistence?
The key lies not in the height of the floors, but in whether the design can give people the opportunity to “stop and meet”.
Because tall buildings don’t have to be cold or distant.
They can be soft. They can be kind.
這樣的轉變，更像是一種「都市生活哲學的重組」，讓我們重新思考：當城市不再有大片土地可以擴張時，建築是否能夠變成新的村落容器，承載不只是生活本身，更是互動、信任與共生的社群文化？
關鍵不在於樓層的高低，而在於設計是否能給予人們「停下來相遇」的機會。
高樓，不一定冷漠，它也可以是溫柔的。
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