bjarke ingels group, BIG / JDS / PLOT, mountain dwellings, copenhagen 2005-2008
mountain dwellings: housing, parking and office space, ørestad, copenhagen 2005-2008.
architects: project begun by PLOT, completed by jds architects and BIG.
there is no limit to the awfulness of the town planning behind copenhagen's new ørestad neighbourhood. you name a textbook mistake, they've made it...
it is only in this negative context that BIG's oddly selfcontained but intense pieces of urbanism in ørestad can be fully understood: there are no streets to add anything to, no legible urban spaces, no lessons learnt from the mistakes of modernism or the virtues of central copenhagen.
and so the yellow strip of light we are looking at in the centre of the image represents nothing short of a miracle along the lines of the little green plant in pixar's wall-e: it's a street-level café, a very nice one even, in the middle of nowhere. residents seem to have embraced the place and small wonder: their only choice used to be fast food at the local mall.
it could only have happened in one of bjarke ingels' buildings out there, designed as they are to be exceptions, exceptions to the trivial context where other architects have managed to fit in a little too well.
other BIG projects.
bjarke ingels group, BIG / JDS / PLOT, mountain dwellings, copenhagen 2005-2008
mountain dwellings: housing, parking and office space, ørestad, copenhagen 2005-2008.
architects: project begun by PLOT, completed by jds architects and BIG.
there is no limit to the awfulness of the town planning behind copenhagen's new ørestad neighbourhood. you name a textbook mistake, they've made it...
it is only in this negative context that BIG's oddly selfcontained but intense pieces of urbanism in ørestad can be fully understood: there are no streets to add anything to, no legible urban spaces, no lessons learnt from the mistakes of modernism or the virtues of central copenhagen.
and so the yellow strip of light we are looking at in the centre of the image represents nothing short of a miracle along the lines of the little green plant in pixar's wall-e: it's a street-level café, a very nice one even, in the middle of nowhere. residents seem to have embraced the place and small wonder: their only choice used to be fast food at the local mall.
it could only have happened in one of bjarke ingels' buildings out there, designed as they are to be exceptions, exceptions to the trivial context where other architects have managed to fit in a little too well.
other BIG projects.