1. BJARKE INGELS GROUPS
- B I G
YES IS MORE
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2. INTRODUCTION
• Bjarke Ingels (born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect.
• He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) which he
founded in 2006.
• In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi.
• Hoping to become a cartoonist, he began to study architecture in 1993 at
the Royal Academy as he thought it would help him to improve his
drawing skills. He continued his studies at the Technica Superior de
Arquitectura in Barcelona, and returned to Copenhagen to receive his
diploma in 1999.
• Alongside his architectural practice, Ingels has been active as a Visiting
Professor at the Rice University School of Architecture, the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, the Columbia University Graduate School
of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and mostly recently, the
Yale School of Architecture.
• From 1998 to 2001, Ingels worked for Rem Koolhaas at the Office for
Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam.
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3. • BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating
within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development …
• BIG constantly evolving challenges of contemporary life seeks to free architectural imagination from
habitual thinking and standard typologies in order to deal with the.
• Our research-based approach and study to local conditions and concerns in an effort to realize their
global aspirations.
DESIGN APPROACH
As designers of the built environment we test the effects of scale and the
balance of programmatic mixtures on the social, economical and ecological outcome
of a given site. Like a form of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by
mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, recreation, working, parking and
shopping to realize imaginative and responsible solutions.
Our philosophy recognizes the added value to be brought to each building site
and our recipe of programmatic alchemy allows for the development of constructible
and economical designs.
ABOUT BIG
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4. D E S I G N P H I L O S O P H I E S
• Known for his innovative and ambitious designs and projects, many of his buildings defy traditional
architectural conventions and dimensions, and are often highly PHOTOGENIC , DAIGRAM ranging
from representations of mountains to snowflakes.
• He often incorporates sustainable development ideas and sociological concepts into his designs, but often
tries to achieve a balance between the playful and practical approaches to architecture.
• “BIG “ has abandoned 20th-century Danish modernism to explore the more fertile world of bigness and
baroque eccentricity.
• BIG draws on the Nordic sense of landscape, democracy and metaphor... BIG's world is also an optimistic
vision of the future where art, architecture, urbanism and nature magically find a new kind of balance.
• He explains: "Buildings should respond to the local environment and climate in a sort of conversation to
make it habitable for human life" drawing, in particular, on the resources of the local climate which could
provide "a way of massively enriching the vocabulary of architecture.“
• Luke Butcher notes that Ingels taps into metamodern sensibility, adopting a metamodern attitude; but he
"seems to oscillate between modern positions and postmodern ones, a certain out-of-this- worldness and a
definite down-to-earthiness, naivety and knowingness, idealism and the practical.
• Ingels has stated that he thinks of himself as "a midwife that assembles existing ideas in new ways to create
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5. • Idea of Inclusive approach to architecture.
• Revolutionaries say no.
• Evolutionaries say yes.
• Cities and buildings are result of ongoing evolution of environment, cities and
architecture.
• Cities and buildings should fit the way we want to live our lives.
YES IS MORE
WORKS
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6. The park to the west and the channels to the east. to
maximize a sense of community for the future inhabitants, the
architecture weaves the shared facilities throughout the whole building
from ground level to roof. a system of gardens, trees and paths provide
a branch of access points to these programs, ending at the 11 storey-
high roof op where you can enjoy a view of the Copenhagen Canal.
Rather than a traditional block, the 8 House stacks all ingredients of a
lively urban neighborhood into horizontal layers of typologies connected
by a continuous promenade and cycling path up to the 10th floor creating
a three-dimensional urban neighborhood where suburban life merges
with the energy of a big city, where business and housing co-exist.
THE 8 HOUSE
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PROGRAM- 80 residences. Parking & retail
SIZE -33.000 SQ.M

7. THE AIM
To build a “three-dimensional community even though the building is in the middle of
nowhere,” says Ingels. The “nowhere” is about 7 miles from the city center at the southern tip of Orestad, a
still somewhat barren district rising along a branch of Copenhagen’s new metro line.
(BIG’s) two earlier residential projects — the 221 unit VM Houses, named after the
shape of the complex when seen from the air, and the Mountain, which features
80 apartments that terrace down over a parking garage are located not far away
in the same developing quarter
SITE CONTEXT
Rather than a traditional block, the 8 House stacks all ingredients
of a lively urban neighbourhood into horizontal layers of typologies
connected by a continuous promenade and cycling path up to the 10th
floor creating a three-dimensional urban neighbourhood where
suburban life merges with the energy of a big city, where business and
housing co-exist.
THE 8 HOUSE
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8. FORM PROGRESSION
Concept/ Ideology
THE 8 HOUSE
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9. FORM PROGRESSION
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10. A continuous public path stretches from street level to
the penthouses and allows people to bike all the way from the
ground floor to the top, moving alongside townhouses with
gardens, winding through an urbTwo sloping green roofs totaling
strategically placed to reduce the urban heat island effect an
perimeter block.
as well as providing the visual identity to the project
and tying it back to the adjacent farmlands towards the south.
The 8 House uses size to its advantage by creating immense
differences in height thereby creating a unique sense of
community with small gardens and pathways
T h e 8 House creates two intimate interior courtyards, separated by the center of the cross
which houses of communal facilities available for all residents.
At the very same spot, the building is penetrated by wide passage that allows people
to easily move from the park area on its western edge to the water filled canals to the east.
Instead of dividing the different functions of the building – for both habitation and trade – into
separate blocks, the various functions have been spread out horizontally.
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11. MTN
How can you combine the splendors of the suburban backyard with the
social intensity of urban density?
We have breathed new life into the average parking garage
known for its Cramped height by Creating a car parking Cathedral and
allowing it to serve as the foundation for 10.000 Sq.m of housing.
A terraced green mountainside of single family homes resting
on the colorful foundation of contemporary car culture.
MOUNTAI N
The programme is 2/3 parking
and 1/3 living. What if the parking area
became the base upon which to place
terraced housing – like a concrete hillside
covered by a thin layer of housing,
cascading from the 11th floor to the street
A parking and a housing block decided
to merge the two functions into a
symbiotic relationship. KEDHEESWARAN K - M.Arch , Asst.Prof

12. • The roof gardens consist of a terrace and a garden with plants
changing character according to the changing seasons.
• The building has a massive irrigation system which maintains the
roof gardens.
• The only thing that separates the apartments and the gardens is
a glass façade with sliding doors to provide light and fresh air
MTN
Daytime, the holes in the aluminum plates will appear black on the
bright canvas, and the gigantic picture will resemble that of a rough
rasterized photo.
At night, the façade will be lit
from the inside and appear as
a photo negative in different
colours as each floor in the
parking area is divided by a
different, bright colors
The best of two worlds: closeness to the hectic city
life in the centre of Copenhagen, and the tranquillity
characteristic of suburban life
M O U N TA I N
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13. The stratified horizontal organisation and the Voronoi
framework of the urban block create an architecture of parallel
realities, where a multitude of different activities can occur
simultaneously without limiting one another.
The chasms and fissures provide generous views between
different programs as well as at times necessary separation.
THEME OF THE PROJECT
WAR
WARSAW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
The combination of urban unity and spatial fragmentation
creates an architectural experience capable of bridging the
memory gap between the historical city center to
contemporary Warsaw
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14. The building envelope is fractured vertically.
In addition, a clear horizontal programmatic
stratification is created, to allow public life, urban flows and
views of art to permeate the building through a network of
cracks, gaps and fissures.
By deploying the Voronoi framework, a structure
that combines a logical and efficient organisation in terms of
programmatic adjacencies, with an organic experience,
intuitive orientation and exciting spatial relationships is
possible.
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At the ground
level the Voronoi
framework creates a
landscape of boulder like
fragments symbolising urban
tissue with irregular streets,
passages and alleys creating
shortcuts between street,
plaza and park
The Voronoi framework
prioritises the human scale
and slyly introduces an urban
irregularity into the formal
master plan.
Vertically, daylight flows through the linear skylights between the art galleries, into the foyer
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15. • The public level provides a 360 degree panorama of the
surrounding city as well as sight lines to the retail gallerias
below and selected artworks above.
Spaces are fractured into a cluster of 8 exhibition galleries.
• Two sculpture gardens and a restaurant are wedged in to provide areas of
contemplation.
• The rooftop constitutes an archipelago of green islands floating in the sea of the city.
The roof gardens offer space for
sculpture gardens, outdoor cafes, events, opening
night galas, and performances.
Individual islands can be made
accessible or isolated by adding or Subtracting
bridge connections
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 R e c o g n i z e s t h e a d d e d v a l u e t o b e b r o u g h t t o e a c h b u i l d i n g s i t e a n d o u r re c i p e o f
p ro g r a m m a t i c a l c h e m y a l l o w s f o r t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f c o n s t r u c t i b l e a n d e c o n o m i c a l
d e s i g n s .
 T h e t r a n q u i l i t y o f s u b u r b a n l i f e g o e s h a n d i n h a n d w i t h t h e s u s t a i n a b l e a n d re n e w a b l e
e n e r g y c o n c e p t s o f a b i g c i t y , b u s i n e s s a n d h o u s i n g c o - e x i s t i . e . f ro m m i c ro t o m a c ro
l e v e l s
 I n c o r p o r a t e s a r a n g e o f n e i g h b o r h o o d f u n c t i o n s a n d a s a r e s u l t o ff e r s m u l t i p l e d e s i g n
o p p o r t u n i t i e s , f o s t e r i n g l o c a l c o m m e rc i a l , re c re a t i o n a l , a n d c u l t u r a l a c t i v i t i e s . I . e . t o
b o u n d h a n d w i t h S o c i a l c o h e s i o n .
 R e s p o n s i b l e d e s i g n d o e s n o t h a v e t o b e b o r i n g . H o w B . I . G a n d h i s t e a m t r a n s f o r m
s e e m i n g l y c o n t r a d i c t o r y re q u i re m e n t s i n t o c l e v e r d e s i g n s
 f o r w a r d i d e a s r e g a r d i n g f u t u r e s c e n a r i o s a n d p r o p o s e d d i ff e r e n t c o n c e p t s t o m e e t t h e
n e e d s o f u n f o l d i n g a r c h i t e c t u r a l i s s u e s a n d e n t i t l e d t h e e ff o r t s a s “ t u r n i n g t h e s u r r e a l
d r e a m s i n t o i n h a b i t a b l e s p a c e . ”
 R a t h e r t h a n R e v o l u t i o n B I G a r e m o r e i n t e r e s t e d i n E v o l u t i o n … …
CONCLUSION