Editors’ Choice

2020 Skyscraper Competition
Yifei Fan, Wenxuan Tang, Shuting Xu, Yinshan Wang

China

Nowadays, there still exist a large number of landmines which are undiscovered during wars in the last century, which brings a huge potential threat underground just like the invisible bombs. The landmines are menacing residents? safety anytime and anywhere. Cambodia is such a country, which is covered with about 73. 4 mines per square kilometer. As the war continued in the past century, the number of mines in Cambodia was also increasing. Due to the loss of maps in wars, nobody now knows the exact locations where the landmines buried in.
lt is a normal phenomenon in Cambodia that poor people who have a financial problem living in the landmine field because here is the only place where they can afford to. As time goes by, they have established their villages in the landmine field and farmed in this area. The landmines were often accidentally detonated by the people, which is a common problem for the residents. So they made a lot of red signs and drew the skull on them in order to warn people to mind their step. The cost of living in a safe zone and landmines are now seriously threatening people?s safety. In order to solve these problems, we are planning to build a compositive vertical community in the little safe zone to ensure people?s safety and convenience. Meanwhile, the specialists will enter into the old dwelling districts to clean the landmines and make...