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private backyards. The terrace houses are based on on based are houses terrace The backyards. private “Mom, who’s that?” She replied: “that’s Elvis”. (fig.02) Elvis”. “that’s replied: She that?” who’s “Mom, the transforming façade, the on compositions complex in M-house the of zigzagging the corridors, end dead of

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houses with generous patios and views out towards the the towards out views and patios generous with houses from far away: a lo-res image of Per Høpfner and Axel Axel and Høpfner Per of image lo-res a away: far from intricate sloping, stepping, zigzagging, the of result a As suburb existing the towards floors 4 to kneels and west,

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over the top. Rather than stacking flats on top of one one of top on flats stacking than Rather top. the over 10x10cm, in 10 different colors, and create a pixelated pixelated a create and colors, different 10 in 10x10cm, (fig.01) ft. blocks. the between vis-à-vis the eliminate as well as

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SIZE PARTNER-IN-CHARGE 2.15 MILLION FT2 BJARKE INGELS LOCATION PROJECT LEADER COPENHAGEN, DK ANDREAS KLOK PEDERSEN Klm STATUS ARCHITECTS The big Copenhagen LOCAL PLANNING PROCESS JAKOB CHRISTENSEN CLIENT JULIE SCHMIDT-NIELSEN BATTLEFIELD BIG PROACTION BO BENZON ARCHITECT STEFAN MYLLEAGER FREDERIKSEN BIG DAVID ZAHLE Experiment OLE SCHRØDER 5 NEW ARCHITECTURAL SPECIES FROM THE DANISH WELFARE STATE As architects our role is often reduced to the beautification Copenhagen’s old airfield from 1920 has been converted they launched a campaign against the project. Their main of predetermined programs. A client calls us up on the into a sports field for the community life of the unions argument: a claim that half the football fields were going phone, after having determined all issues of a project, and local groups of citizens. A windswept oasis in the to get shot down. They started collecting signatures and asks us to ‘make it nice’. Architects only get involved centre of the city surrounded by allotment gardens or against the project. The traditional image of the radical architect is the angry young man midwifes of the continuous birth of architectural species shaped by when the decision to build has been made, when the site industry and populated by footballers complaining about rebelling against the establishment. The avant-garde is defined more the countless criteria of multiple interests. The whole world insists has been found and when the size and content of the the bumpy fields and the lack of shelter. To propose to We responded by launching a website kloverkarreen.dk from what it is against than what it is for. This leads to an oedipal on conflict. The media craves conflict, and the politicians craving program have been decided. Thus architects, and therefore build on it would be political suicide! But if we could buy informing about the facts, potential problems and succession of contradictions where each generation says the opposite media presence need to engage in conflict to get there. Currently the architecture, rarely have any decisive influence on how a narrow strip of land 30 meters wide along the edge, possibilities of the idea. And gave supportive citizens the physical structures of society evolve. The role of we would get a 3km long building site. A mega perimeter a chance to sign up FOR the project. The media raved: of the previous. And if your agenda is dependant on being the opposite biggest conflict in Danish politics is that the social democrats and the architecture is often reduced to cosmetics. block! (fig.12) Apparently the first time someone collected signatures of someone else’s you are simply a follower in reverse. Rather than liberals (left and right) promote identical political programs which in for something. Traditionally the public was only ever being radical by saying fuck the context, - the establishment, - the any other context would be the very definition of harmony! In politics: Architecture is human society’s physical manifestation on By making huge gates we could ensure visual and physical agitated by fury, never excitement. neighbors, - the budget or - gravity, we want to try to turn pleasing it’s the opposite. the crust of the earth - an artificial part of the planet’s access. By varying the height we could respect the geography. It is where we all live. Architecture is “the neighbors and ensure views of the surrounding skyline The campaigners responded by launching their own in to a radical agenda. stuff that surrounds us”. And as architects constantly of historical spires. Three places we proposed to lower website: bigstop.dk (named after you know who!?!) An What if design could be the opposite of politics? Not by ignoring conflict, working in and with the city, you would think that we the block to kiss the ground allowing people to access onslaught of articles in all national newspapers and The Danish welfare state is the culture of consensus. The socially but by feeding from it. A way to incorporate and integrate differences, would be at the frontier of envisioning our urban future. the linear roof park forming a residential version of the local magazines and tv stations began. Traditionally most egalitarian country in the world, it is ruled by the good principles not through compromise or by choosing sides, but by tying conflicting However while we sit at home waiting for the phone to Great Wall of China. We calculated that we can create architecture is always dealt with in the cultural section ring or someone to announce a competition, the future 2000 homes, 3 kindergartens and a public school without of the newspaper: soft issues like art or entertainment. that everybody has the same rights, every point of view the same interests in to a Gordian knot of new ideas. An inclusive rather than is being decided by politicians, bureaucrats, developers, sacrificing as much as a single football field! Rather than In this case however, most of the more than 300 articles value. Through the last 50 years that has led towards a gray goo of exclusive architecture. An architecture unburdened by the conceptual lawyers, accountants: suits. choosing between football or affordable homes, we could appeared in the first section along with politics and sameness, where all attempts to stick out have been beaten down to monogamy of commitment to a single interest or idea. An architecture have both! (fig.13) economy. Architecture was now more than just a tired 12 the same non-offensive generic box, and all libido invested in polishing where you don’t have to choose between public or private, dense or At BIG we have largely followed the same paths as our contradiction about ugly or beautiful: it was the solution colleagues through generations, attempting to inject We submitted the project to a newspaper. Some weeks of an otherwise irresolvable political conflict. and perfecting the ever finer details. The sum of all the little concerns open, urban or suburban, affordable flats or football fields…. unexpected innovations in to commissions, or discover later we received the newly elected mayor at the seems to have blocked the view of the big picture. unexplored possibilities in competition briefs. But no office. With 2000 apartments almost half of her vision In September 2006 a public opinion survey declared that An architectural form of bigamy, where you can have both. A pragmatic matter how clever we attempt to be, we always respond would be complete in one major move of almost Marxist 64% of the Copenhageners thought it was a good idea to What if trying to make everybody happy did not have to lead to utopian architecture that takes on the creation of socially, economically to someone else’s questions. monumentality. She loved it. She asked us to talk to build affordable homes around the football fields. A few compromise or the lowest common denominator? It could be a way to and environmentally perfect places as a practical objective. 13 the footballers and the p-patch gardeners. The football weeks later a broad political spectrum consisting of the Or that’s how it was until the fall of 2005, when players (9 clubs out of 10) liked the project. They were Social Democrats, the Radical Left, the Socialist Peoples find the ever elusive summersault that twists and turns in order to Copenhagen was having municipal elections. One major tired of their current accommodation in barracks left Party and the Left decided to go ahead with the idea. FULFILL every desire and avoid stepping on anyone’s toes. Rather than The following projects are all specific urban experiments conducted in issue was that the real estate prices had skyrocketed behind by German fugitives after the 2nd world war. The revolution we are more interested in evolution. Like Darwin describes Copenhagen since January 2001 by Bjarke Ingels Group (VM completed propelling poor people out of town. The situation was new development would contain clubhouses and dressing A year later the local planning process has been initiated, so bad, that normal income people such as nurses and rooms at the ground floor, and the linear block would a public participation process is under way, but it is creation as a process of excess and selection, we propose to let the by PLOT/Bjarke Ingels & Julien De Smedt 2001-2005). At different cops could not afford to live there. The City hospital provide shelter from the strong winds. Finally they could still the subject of ongoing public debate and political forces of society, the multiple interests of everyone, decide which of stages of realization they portray a new breed of urban life forms, 14 had more than 50 vacant positions for nurses, leaving look forward to having at least 2500 spectators for discussion. To be continued….. our ideas can live, and which must die. Surviving ideas evolve through both locally specific and generally applicable, introducing residential patients without care. The social democratic mayor got every game! (fig.14) mutation and crossbreeding in to an entirely new species of architecture. diversity, programmatic alchemy, urban ascension, modular mania and elected on a promise to solve the situation by making To find out more visit: 5000 homes for 5000kr/month in 5 years…. But where? The p-patch people were less happy. In a mix of Viewed in this way we architects don’t have to remain misunderstood political pro-action into the architectural species of the Danish welfare We decided to help... arguments spanning from intolerance (NIMBYISM) to racism www.kloverkarreen.dk geniuses, frustrated by the lack of understanding, appreciation or state. (affordable = immigrant) to general suspicion of the new, www.bigstop.dk funding. We wont even be the creators of architecture but rather the

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project by artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl. - 7.30P JULIA DEUTSCH technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and THEO DOULAMIS The project replaced the existing faÁade with a series M KATIE GLUCKSELIG of twelve panels that pivot vertically or horizontally urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s CAROLINA GUZMAN to open the entire length of the gallery directly onto challenges architecture can profitably move into a field being to a large PEARL KANG the street. The project blurs the boundary between 12A JESS RUSSELL extent unexplored a pragmatic utopian architecture that steer clear Y interior and exterior and, by placing the panels in different CAMILLA LANCASTER of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian SEAN OH configurations, creates a multitude of different possible DIMITRYI PANTELE facades. Now regarded as a contemporary architectural ideas of digital formalism. RACHEL POSER landmark, Storefrontís facade is visited by artists, PREEYA SAIKIA architects and students from around the world. MARTY SCHAPIRO In our projects we test the effects of size and the balance of For more information about upcoming programs and programmatic mixtures on the triple bottom line of the social, economical

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LOCATED AT Freeman, Susan Hakkarainen, Lauren Kogod, Laura Kurgan, architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our TUESDA 97 KENMARE STREET, Lindy Roy, Linda Pollak, Michael Manfredi, William Menking, BETWEEN MULBERRY AND Planet, to better fit contemporary life forms. In all our actions we try LAFAYETTE STREET Artur Walther Board of Advisors Kyong Park (Founder), Kent Barwick, Peter Cook, Chris Dercon, Elizabeth Diller, to move the focus from the little details to the BIG picture. TRAINS Claudia Gould, Dan Graham, Richard Haas, Brooke Hodge, 6 TO SPRING; N/R TO Steven Holl, Steven Johnson, Toyo Ito, Mary Jane Jacob, PRINCE; B/D/F/V TO BER 2007

Mary Miss, Shirin Neshat, Lucio Pozzi, Frederieke Taylor, M BROADWAY LAFAYETTE James Wines. E V Bjarke Ingels Group Storefront’s programs are made possible with support Nørrebrogade 66 D 2200 Copenhagen N Denmark from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state T +45 7221 7227 F +45 3512 7227 agency, New York City Department for Cultural Affairs, [email protected] www.big.dk Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Kaye Scholer LLP and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown. Support is also provided by Storefront’s Board of Directors, members and our sponsors individuals. 2 OCTOBER - 24 NO the big copenhagen EXPERIMENT ©2007 The LEGO Group the big copenhagen 5 NEW ARCHITECTURAL SPECIES FROM THE DANISH WELFARE STATE experiment BY BJARKE INGELS GROUP 2 OCTOBER - 24 NOVEMBER 2007 TUESDAY - SATURDAY 12AM - 7.30PM