Sky Forests: Giant Balcony Trend Shakes the Rules of Chinese Architecture

There was a time when 'incorporating the balcony into the kitchen' was quite the rage in our country. It even got to the point where balconies ceased to be built altogether. However, as square meter prices skyrocket in modern metropolises, traditional home designs are undergoing a radical transformation. The long-standing 'small living room, functional space' concept in Asian architecture has given way to a groundbreaking new trend. Nowadays, urban dwellers, tired of being boxed in between concrete blocks, are seeking luxury not in the expansiveness of their living rooms, but in the freedom of outdoor spaces that open up to the sky.

In China, recent '4th Generation Housing' projects have sparked a global trend with their towering vertical forest skyscrapers, where balconies are designed to be even larger than the traditional living rooms of the apartments. These luxurious sky terraces, which have gained considerable attention on social media, are completely redefining the concept of comfort in modern urbanism.