In Progress: 8 House / BIG
Last year, BIG completed Mountain Dwellings (winner of the Building of the Year 2009 Award under the Housing category), showing us new approaches to a complex typology.
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Along this line of innovation in housing, we now present you a sneak peek of the soon to be completed 8 House a 62,000sqm project located in Copenhagen with an interesting approach to mixed use. Over 540 units for different configurations (single or family, young and elders, growing or shrinking families) are placed around a bow in the shape of an 8, mixed with commerce and community facilities, which Bjarke Ingels explain on the above video with a simplicity that has become BIG’s signature when it comes to project presentation.
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The Tower is not that close to the whole complex
whatever
it rocks
i like BIG
love the way the community space wrapping around, up and down. Very sophisticated!
This project is very interesting and multi-layered. My concern about projects like this however are that marvels of current architecture (such as this one) are built using alluminium panels, plastic window frames etc. which at the very best have an expiry date of 30-50 years.
By that time all those buildings will be gone, as in practice there is no money for a real facade maintanance in such a long timeline.
I’m afraid that because of the material use – good architecture of our times will simply self-disassemble and we will sadly see more and more stories like Nakagin Tower or the MVRDV dutch pavillion from 2000.
Nothing is made for eternity. And older building materials like wooden window frames or plaster also need regular maintenance and/or replacement. I don´t see your point. Maintenance is important and costly, but it is impossible to make an maintenance-free building.
Probably nothing for eternety, but contemporany building have short life compare even with gothic, romanic, all ancient civilization. And that’s whay we are now just simple consumers, after a wile, we will foget about our age architectural marvel.
R Goldschmidt is dead on. it’s just another object of consumption that will probably be demolished in fifty years or repurposed into a low-income ghetto.
With all respect to BIG, this is big monster….with all unoccupied land in Denmark i do not see any point of building something like that…well, if you plan a ghetto, then this is the solution…
This is what happens when you actually THINK.
ARCHITECTURE happens!
This is not just an 8 on steroids… everything’s got a purpose.
That’s why IT WORKS!
Well done BIG.
& LOL at the soundtrack :)
The presentation is flawless!! Way to go BIG…
Great project!
one day i’m gonna go to copenhagen only to work with these guys. this is architecture! BIG, keep up your quality please!
I hope the staff is happy there is is being treated and paid fairly!
“I hope the staff is happy there is is being treated and paid fairly!”
Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case.
care to elaborate??
They work a lot at BIG, but they are treated nicely and paid fairly.
do they have projects in the middle east?
That presentation is just WOW! How did they do all the animation stuff without using a green screen or something?
I do not like the project too much, but the way of presenting and communicating the project is very convincing…
amazing project! like the others big’s projects.
this guy is the future of architecture.
oh, please dont say that
これカッコいい。 http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/
ビャルケ・インゲルス RT @kentarozu: これカッコいい。 http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/
http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/
This is NOT Architecture.
you mean HOT architecture!?
So You’re not architect.
You can say without brain. Bravo
Very interesting video. I do not believe that the goal here is to say what is and is not Architecture, I think that BIG purposely obfuscates that line between the developer and architect. I didn’t realize that the whole strip is not yet built – as it stands in the aerial photography, it does seem like it needs its some surrounding urban fabric! But this is a good thing! Lots of architecture seems to want those OUT-standing qualities, as if to reject the city. This project seems to want it (as in stand-IN). Is the campanile not going to be built – It isn’t in the photographs. Further, the tower seems to be a completely different project here, definitely not as responsive as the super-block to the demands of the site, program and sun. For me, this is undeniably Architecture. The question is, is it good Architecture? I think that will only be proven when the rest of the master plan is filled out and the city has had a chance to operate as a city in this building.
So where’s the twisted tower?
Is the red man BOLT? he’s must be very healthy to run through the building, climb up and down 10 floors using staircase. :)
i like presentation
Reading: "In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily"( http://twitthis.com/rnz5vi )
BIG is really a design oriented company which have more pride in being great salesmen, than making something which can be seen as great architecture. How this thing interacts with absolutely everything around it, the city, landscape etc – just awful. But I guess it does make more sense sitting on a table – like in the presentation;-)
incredible presentation, convincing building. Love the work they produce, topped with outstandingly clear and direct graphics.
I think I tend to criticize the developer more than the design itself. Attempting to create a master plan in an area like that seems like an incredibly risky move, however, I don’t see it as bad design at all. It is definitely unorthodox, but all the design moves make perfect sense. To me, saying that the presentation is great yet the building is awful is not a claim you can actually make without visiting the completed structure and having a first-hand experience.
The presentation itself presents the work as a series of diagrams, which naturally give the project a sense of heavy-handedness which perhaps offends designers that prefer a more subtle and delicate style. However, that is not to say that subtlety has not been built in at the smaller scale. It seems fruitless to say that it is bad architecture without actually providing concrete reasons backing up that argument.
In Progress: 8 House / BIG http://bit.ly/cDuQO9
No projects from BIG in year 2010 – strange and sad
RT @archdaily: In Progress: 8 House / BIG http://archdai.ly/da9owQ #architecture
デザインはともかく、プレゼンはうまいな～http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/
Perfect…. i didnt say no more …..
In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily http://bit.ly/9PdxXJ
In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily http://bit.ly/9PdxXJ
What sort of software would they have used to create this video? In particular, what sort of 3D animation software?
wondering if this is the future of interview presentations for architects? http://bit.ly/dbvd4O
Before I visited Ørestad I completely loved BIG and all their projects. But I see now that BIG are really good at presenting architecture, but they’re not particularily good at creating the architecture.
They often seem to forget to consider the human scale, the city life and the ageing of buildings. Ørestad feels like one of the loneliest places on earth, and Bjerget looks exactly like other Copenhagen suburbs (Farum Midtpunkt, for example) must have looked like thirty years ago.
But in some way they still manage to stay among the worlds most inspiring architects. Weird.
what is that thing in the grass behind the building? is it a boat?
i dont what the zebra skin os for?
and yes, the building is to much “it self” it takes care of the sun, but what about the rest?
This is intelligent design….wonderfully articulated and cleverly conceived. BRAVO!
Housing hates ground floor- right…so why they make a walkway on penthouse level ? Housing hates tight atriums where people can see what their neigbours are cooking for dinner.
9:14 PM Jul 13th
http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/ mt legal
10:06 PM Jul 13th
RT @Giuliapanno: http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/ mt legal
9:54 PM Jul 20th
Reading: "In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily the best of Architecture"( http://twitthis.com/rnz5vi )
9:26 PM Jul 21st
Bjarke Ingels (BIG)는 이런 방법까지 사용하는구나. 우리의 프리젠테이션 스킬은 어디쯤 있나요? http://bit.ly/cuga0P 작년 쯤 그가 우리 사무실에 방문했을 때 잠시 세미나를 갖은 적이 있었다. 재미있는 친구다 #시크_
9:24 AM Aug 5th
Incredible visualization of process thinking in architecture http://tinyurl.com/2dy7s2f
12:44 PM Aug 26th
@fajartwork fajar fajaaar gue dpt link nya ! hahaha http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/ . enjoy it ; )
8:16 AM Sep 5th
The best architectural presentation I have seen…#8House by #BIG…so cool! http://bit.ly/9FWmLz
2:11 PM Sep 13th
In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily http://t.co/SUG8ObK via @archdaily
2:54 PM Nov 9th
pa skaisto…..pat skatoties/klausoties nevalodā…..BIG—> http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/
9:00 PM Dec 1st
@leitanelinda@matissgr…….http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/ …gan jau redzēts, bet tomēr….lai veicās!….:)
9:04 PM Dec 1st
@leitanelinda @matissgr…….http://www.archdaily.com/63464/in-progress-8-house-big/ …gan jau redzēts, bet tomēr….lai veicās!….:)
5:04 PM Dec 10th
In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily http://t.co/pbJW7N4 via @archdaily
10:23 PM Mar 31st
Amazing architectonic idea in Copenhagen: http://bit.ly/cuga0P
11:18 AM Apr 6th
Watching: "In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily -> @reytia, ayo rahangnya dipegang biar ga lepas… X8-)"( http://twitthis.com/f5eskm )
11:18 AM Apr 6th
Watching: "In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily -> @reytia, ayo rahangnya dipegang biar ga lepas… X8-)"( http://twitthis.com/f5eskm )
11:18 AM Apr 6th
Watching: "In Progress: 8 House / BIG | ArchDaily -> @reytia, ayo rahangnya dipegang biar ga lepas… X8-)"( http://twitthis.com/f5eskm )
7:55 PM Aug 4th
Modern day Streets in the Sky aka a posh Park Hill (in Denmark) http://t.co/9gjKIEH via @archdaily
4:43 AM Nov 5th
Well worth watching:
http://t.co/3cs9h86t