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Founder of the architecture firrn
BIG Bjarke lngel Group
About Ingels
Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels born 2 October 1974) is a
Danish architect, founder and creative partner of
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

In Denmark, Ingels became well known after

designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM
Houses and Mountain Dwellings.

In 2006 he founded Bjarke Ingels Group, which grew

to a staff of 400 by 2015, with noted projects including
the 8 House housing complex, VIA 57 West in
Manhattan, the Google North Bayshore headquarters
(co-designed with Thomas Heatherwick), the
Superkilen park, and the Amager Resource Center
(ARC) waste-to-energy plant – the latter which
incorporates both a ski slope and climbing wall on the
building exterior.
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ROJECT M OUNTAIN
PROGRAM 80 RESI DEN CES, PARKING & RETAIL
CLIENT H0 PFNER , DANISH OIL
COMPANY COLLABORATORS JDS, MOE
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& BR0DSGAARD , SLA SIZE 33.000 M 2
COST €33. 5 MIL LION, $45 MILLION,
[NY 338 MILLION
LOCATION COPE NHAGE N, DK
STATUS COMPLETED 2008
PRIZES WAF HOUSING AWARD , MIPIM HOUSING A
NAR[ , FORUM AID ARCHITECTURE AWARD, ULI
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Mountain Dwellings are the 2nd generation of the VM Houses - same
client, same size and same street. The program, however, is 2/3 parking and
1/3 living.he 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 edge.
Rather than doing two separate buildings next to each other - a parking and a
housing block - They decided to merge the two functions into a symbiotic
relationship. The parking area needs to be connected to the street, and the
homes require sunlight, fresh air and views, thus all apartments have roof
gardens facing the sun, amazing views and parking on the 10th floor. The
Mountain Dwellings appear as a suburban neighbourhood of garden homes
flowing over a 10-storey building - suburban living with urban density.
 The roof gardens consist of a terrace and a garden with plants changing character
according to the changing seasons. The building has a huge watering system which
maintains the roof gardens. The only thing that separates the apartment and the
garden is a glass façade with sliding doors to provide light and fresh air.
ORIGINAL MASTERPLAN
The residents of the 80 apartments will be the first in Orestaden to have the possibility
of parking directly outside their homes. The gigantic parking area contains 480 parking
spots and a sloping elevator that moves along the mountain's inner walls. In some
places the ceiling height is up to 16 meters which gives the impression of a cathedral-
like space.

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plates, which let in air and light to the parking area. The holes in the
facade form a huge reproduction of Mount Everest. At day the holes
in the aluminium plates will appear black on the bright aluminium,
and the gigantic picture will resemble that of a rough rasterized
photo. At night time the facade will be lit from the inside and
appear as a photo negative in different colours as each floor in the
parking area has different colours.he Mountain Dwellings is located
in Orestad city and offer the best of two worlds: closeness to the
hectic city life in the centre of Copenhagen, and the tranquillity
characteristic of suburban life.
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PROJECT 8 HOUSE
PROGRAM 475 RESIDENCES , RETAIL & OFFICES
CLIENT ST. FREDR IKSLUND
COLLABORATORS MOE & BR0SGAARD , K LAR
SIZE 50 .000 M2
COST €80 MILLION, $107.3 MILLION, [ NY 807.8
MILLION
LOCATION COPENHAGEN, DK
STATUS COMPLETED SEPTEMBER 2010
PRIZES SCA NDINAVIA'S BEST GREEN ROOF 2010

The 8 House is located in Orestad , Copenhagen . As the last

block in the new neighborhood it sits on the outer edge of
the city, overlooking the vast pleins of kalvebod Common .
30 urbanism rather than a traditional block , the 8 House
stacks all ingredients of a lively urban neighborhood into
horizontal layers of typologies living and working connected
by a continuous promenade and cycling path up to the 10th
floor penthou se .
 The bowtie-shaped 61,000 sqm mixed-use building of three different
types of residential housing and 10,000 sqm of retail and offices
comprises Denmark’s largest private development ever undertaken.
TRADITIONAL PARTITIONING Commissioned by St. Frederikslund and Per Hopfner in 2006, the 8
House sits on the outer edge of the city as the southern most outpost of
Orestad. Rather than a traditional block, the 8 House stacks all
ingredients of a lively urban neighborhood into horizontal layers of
PROPOSED PARTITIONING 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 city, where business and
housing co-exist. A continuous public path stretches from street level to
REDUCING SCALE
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 urban perimeter block. Two sloping green roofs totaling 1,700
sqm are strategically placed to reduce the urban heat island effect as
well as providing the visual identity to the project and tying it back to the
HEIGHT VARIATION FOR VIEWS adjacent farmlands towards the south.
BIG designed 8 House as a long, coherent
building with variation in height, the bow- shaped
building creates two distinct spaces, separated
by the center of the bow which hosts the
communal facilities. Beneath this space a 9m
wide passage connects the two surrounding city
spaces: the park area to the West and the channel
area to the East. The various functions have been
spread out horizontally. The apartments are
placed at the top while the commercial is located
at the base of the building. As a result, the
different horizontal layers have achieved a quality
of their own: the apartments benefit from the view,
sunlight and fresh air, while the office leases merge
with Iife on the street.
Stacking of different functions, like a urban layer
cake...

The apparent variety of Nyhavn's buildings-the All the dwellingsare place on top of the commercial The top two floors are
architect designing all the houses and different functions because they love sunshine but hate ground floor pent row houses with
architects designthe facades, creating a lake location where people can look straightInto the apartment. both front and roof
difference. gardens .

Shops and offices prefer direct contact with the
customers al street level and interconnected floors.
They like daylight but hate direct sunlight Therefore,
the commercial part Is place al the botlom of the
building.
Shops and offices expand because they On lop of the rowhouses. a layer of
have deeper floors than housing, this traditional apartments are placed, where the
allows for the rowhouses to have roor lowest one is located on the 3rd or 4th
gardens. level.

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The Danish Pavilion, World
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PROJECT WELFAIRYTALES
PROGRAM DANISH PAVILION, SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO 2010
CLIENT DANISH ENTERPRISE & CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY, EXPO
2010
COLLABORATORS ARUP SHA NGH AI, ARUP AGU, TONGJI, 2+1
ARTISTS JEPPE HEIN, MARTIN DE THURAH, PETER FUNCH
SIZE 2.800 M2
COST €134 MILLION, $18.1 MILLION, CNY135 .3 MILLION
LOCATION SHANGHAI, CN
STATUS COMPETITION 7sr PRIZE, COMPLETED 2010

The Danish Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo 2010

is conceived as a real fragment of De nmark , rather
than state propaganda full of empty words and
superficial
im a gery. Through int eract ion, the visitor can e xperience
real Copenhagen ele ment s: ride a city bike and s wim in
the harbor bath. As a symbol of our commitment to the rea
l deal we
will move the Little Mermaid to Shanghai for the duration of
the Expo. In her absence a contemporary Chinese artist will
reinterpret the statue in her original locat ion.
 The project, designed by BIG with ARUP and 2+1, was interesting not only from an
architectural and structural point of view, but also for the danish spirit it represents.
'. Basically, the pavilion is a big loop on which visitors ride around on one of the 1,500
bikes available at the entrance, a chance to experience the Danish urban way. At the
center of the pavilion there’s a big pool with fresh water from Copenhagen’s harbor (one
of the most clean in the world), on which visitors can even swim.

At the center of the pool you will find The Little Mermaid, a statue that has become a
symbol for Denmark. And this time, it will be moved temporarily to China. In Bjarke
Ingels words “it is considerably more resource efficient moving The Little Mermaid to
China, than moving 1.3 billion Chinese to Copenhagen”.

The pavilion is a monolithic structure in white painted steel which keeps it cool during
the Shanghai summer sun due to its heat-reflecting characteristics. The roof is covered
with a light blue surfacing texture, known from Danish cycle paths. Inside, the floor is
covered with light epoxy and also features the blue cycle path where the bikes pass
through the building. The steel of the facade is perforated in a pattern that reflects the
actual structural stresses that the pavilion is experiencing making it a 1:1 stress test.

With the Danish Pavilion we have attempted to consolidate a handful of real

experiences of how a sustainable city - such as Copenhagen - can in fact increase the
quality of life",

- Bjarke Ingels
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NISHITH V JAIN
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