Construction: Mountain Dwellings by Bjarke Ingels Group

Construction · Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark · 2008

Photo: seier+seier · 2007-12-29 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3576×2800

the mountain: housing, parking, and office space, ørestaden, copenhagen 2005-2008. architects: project begun by PLOT, completed by jds architects and BIG. a radical reinterpretation of the courtyard or patio house as presented here in the so-called mountain dwellings by b.i.g. - bjarke ingels group. a single layer of stacked courtyard houses tops a parking house and architectural drama ensues. image 06 shows the great profile of this hybrid. the megastructures of the late sixties spring to mind. I need to check out reyner banham's definition of a megastructure from his "urban futures of the re

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