Thursday, June 17, 2010

Bjarke Ingels: Going to Extraordinary Measures

Scala Tower in Copenhagen, Denmark


This tower was made for the cause of a competition a few years back. Inside of it, there is a cinema, stores, library, hotel, conference lobby, restaurants, offices, apartments, and a spa. From the outside, the building looks like the tower and the base are morphed together in a spiral-shaped cascade of stairs. As you're calmly reading a book in the library and you look up, you can see people climbing up the stairs to get to the rooftop. Haven't you ever felt like Spiderman and wanted to climb up a building from the outside?

Mountain Dwellings


This building consists of 80 apartments that are arranged on a sloping hillside above the car park that has space for 480 cars. 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 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.

8 comments:

  1. That is a very cool place. Where does he get the inspiration?

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  2. The tower would be so cool to live in and have all those cool places around you and the apartments look so cool they look like a hole bunch of gardens.

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  3. what type of materials did he use

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  4. This is quite an unique structure. I wonder where he got the inspiration for the design though.

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  5. Where is the Mountain Dwellings located?

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  6. Why did he make these buildings did he have an inspiration

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  7. I like the first pic it seems like a night sensation

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  8. What are common materials used in the buildings?

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