BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group TED Talk: My Architectural Philosophy? Bring the Community Into the Process / Alejandro Aravena “If there is any power in design, that’s the power of synthesis.” In this TED Talk Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, the founder of ELEMENTAL, speaks about some of the design challenges he has faced in Chile and his innovative approaches to solving them. Emphasizing the need for simplicity in design, Aravena talks about three of his projects: the Quinta Monroy social housing project, through which he developed the “half-finished home” typology for governments to provide quality homes at incredibly low-prices; his “inside-out” design for the Pontifical Catholic University’s Innovation Center UC – Anacelto Angelini, which reduced energy costs by two-thirds; and lastly his masterplan for rebuilding a resilient coastline in Constitución Chile after the city was hit by the 2010 earthquake. Aravena also emphasized the importance of community participation in his projects, saying: “We won’t ever solve the problem unless we use people’s own capacity to build.”
Next travel stop: Indonesia's slums | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features JAKARTA - Gridlocked traffic, filthy rivers, air that tastes of diesel -- there is much that keeps Indonesia's capital Jakarta off the global tourist map. But for broke filmmaker Ronny Poluan, there is plenty of interest amid the squalor of a city of up to 12 million people, where nearly half the population lives in slums jammed between shopping malls and luxury homes. Poluan's "Jakarta Hidden Tours," running more or less regularly since 2008, take small paying groups of foreigners to the city's warrens, river banks and rail lines to meet those whom he calls "the real people". Wizened 53-year-old Sana is one of them. Standing near a shack built on the edge of the tracks, she tells a group of half a dozen Australians about the local slum dweller's weekly dance with the authorities. Friday to Sunday, Sana said, the rows of shacks that spread off into the horizon are home. "If we don't hurry they take our things," she said. But this cash-in-hand approach has plenty of critics.
Bjarke Ingels La genesi di una cosa buffa e brillante è molto simile a quella di una proposta innovativa e capace di modificare i paradigmi. Spesso nel nostro studio il processo di brainstorming comincia con un’analisi arida e poi, una volta esaminati i fatti, cerchiamo gli elementi buffi o surreali, perché se qualcosa riesce a sorprendere te potrebbe sorprendere anche il mondo intero... / The genesis of something funny and something brilliant or innovative or paradigm changing are very similar. Quite often the brainstorming process in our office starts with a dry analysis and then once we look at the facts we search for things that are surreal or funny, because if there is something surprising to you, it might also be surprising to the world... Bjarke Ingels (Klat #04). Da non perdere Yes is More, bellissimo volume monografico dedicato a Bjarke Ingels Group, in versione digitale per iPad.
Jakarta Hidden Tours BIG beach & howe tower . vancouver 2semesters 150entradas 150posts 2semestres Beach & Howe Tower . Vancouver Beach and Howe will be part of a new phase in Vancouver’s very short but extremely successful history of urban policy. It will announce the entry point into downtown Vancouver from Granville Bridge, forming a gateway to the city. collaborators: Dialog, Cobalt, Buro Happold, G-S, P-F-S, James Cheng, Bunt & Assoc partner in charge: Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen project leader: Agustin Perez-Torres team: David Brown . BIG natural history museum . copenhagen How do you approach an existing built heritage without ending up with a classic dichotomy between the old versus the new? Rather than trying to add new buildings to existing structures, we propose to add a man-made landscape of stones to the existing buildings in the Botanical Garden. The new Natural History Museum’s architecture will not compete with the existing built heritage. We propose a Natural History Museum as a man-made mineral landscape that naturally adapts to the historic buildings and their stone pavings and the organic forms of the Botanical Garden - a Geological Garden of building and landscape. partner in charge: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Pedersen project leader:Jakob Henke team: Frederik Lyng . collaborators: AKT II, Wissenberg, Vogt Landscape, Space Syntax London, Kvorning Design og Kommunikation, Davis Langdon (AECOM), LUXIGON
BIG . eni headquarters exploration and production . san donato milanese ENI Headquarters Exploration and Production . San Donato Milanese BIG . Sanprogetto Since the methane molecule inspired Primo Palazzo Uffici in the 1950’s, each decade has added a perfect structure to the ENI campus making it an accumulation of office icons of almost molecular organizational clarity. As Methanopolis begins to merge with San Donato it is commencing a gradual transformation from office park to urban neighborhood. Finalist at the international restricted competition Team: BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group - Design Leader Sanprogetto - Architecture Studio Pession Associato - Architecture Ardea - Landscape Onleco - Sustainability systems Tre Erre Ingegneria - Structures Si.ME.TE. - Structures Impro Engineering - Mechanical and Plumbing Systems EL Engineering - Electrical Systems ENI has a history of constructing office buildings out of universal organizational principles.
BIG big Located on the edge of Gärdet, a treasured national park, Kullen makes conscious decisions to provide a sensitive, respectful form while allowing the same choices to simultaneously manifest as exceptional residences with spectacular views. In direct response to the context, the northwest and southeast corners take the heights of their immediate neighbors; while the northeast corner, farthest from the park and nominally with the worst view, is pulled upwards to grant it the most spectacular views of park and port. partnerincharge: Bjarke Ingels, Jakob Lange projectleader: Cat Huang design team: Terrence Chew . BIG - kimball art center . park city . ut Kimball Art Center . Park City . UT In approaching the design for the new Kimball Art Center, we found great inspiration in the urban development of Park City, the Kimball site, and the city’s mining heritage. We feel the form of the new Kimball Art Center emerges where these rich stories overlap. We were particularly moved when a long-time resident of Park City spoke nostalgically about the former Coalition Building, which once stood just south of the Kimball site. Historically, timber was the primary construction material of the first miner settlers in Park City.