Denmark - Copenhagen - Orestad - The Mountain 01
I was very really looking forward to photographing 'The Mountain', one of BIG Architects most iconic buildings in Orestad, Copenhagen. It didn't disappoint and although conditions weren't great with weak sunlight being filtered through a thin layer of cloud I got shots I'm really happy with. More to follow.
From Wikipedia : "Mountain Dwellings (Danish: Bjerget) is an award-winning building in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of apartments above a multi-storey car park. The building is designed by Danish architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group. The apartments are scaling the diagonally sloping roof of the parking garage, from street level to 11th floor, creating an artificial, southfacing 'mountainside'. Each apartment has a "backyard" on the roof of the in-front, lower-level apartment. The resulting courtyard penthouses are an attempt to balance "the splendours of the suburban backyard with the intensity of an urban lifestyle". Throughout the building, it plays on a mountain metaphor as well as the clash between the urban vibe of the interior parking space as well as the surroundings and the peaceful and organic hillside."
"The northern and western facades of the parking garage depict a 3,000 m² photorealistic mural of Himalyan peaks. The parking garage is protected from wind and rain by huge shiny aluminium plates, perforated to let in light and allow for natural ventilation. By controlling the size of the holes, the sheeting were transformed into the giant rasterized image of Mount Everest. The picture is based on a photo commissioned from a Japanese Himalaya photographer, though it had to be stretched to fit the proportions of the site."
If you're interested to learn more about this project click here : www.big.dk/projects/mtn/
Denmark - Copenhagen - Orestad - The Mountain 01
I was very really looking forward to photographing 'The Mountain', one of BIG Architects most iconic buildings in Orestad, Copenhagen. It didn't disappoint and although conditions weren't great with weak sunlight being filtered through a thin layer of cloud I got shots I'm really happy with. More to follow.
From Wikipedia : "Mountain Dwellings (Danish: Bjerget) is an award-winning building in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of apartments above a multi-storey car park. The building is designed by Danish architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group. The apartments are scaling the diagonally sloping roof of the parking garage, from street level to 11th floor, creating an artificial, southfacing 'mountainside'. Each apartment has a "backyard" on the roof of the in-front, lower-level apartment. The resulting courtyard penthouses are an attempt to balance "the splendours of the suburban backyard with the intensity of an urban lifestyle". Throughout the building, it plays on a mountain metaphor as well as the clash between the urban vibe of the interior parking space as well as the surroundings and the peaceful and organic hillside."
"The northern and western facades of the parking garage depict a 3,000 m² photorealistic mural of Himalyan peaks. The parking garage is protected from wind and rain by huge shiny aluminium plates, perforated to let in light and allow for natural ventilation. By controlling the size of the holes, the sheeting were transformed into the giant rasterized image of Mount Everest. The picture is based on a photo commissioned from a Japanese Himalaya photographer, though it had to be stretched to fit the proportions of the site."
If you're interested to learn more about this project click here : www.big.dk/projects/mtn/