I seem to relate to the work of Bjarke Ingels the most. This 21st century architect is young, bold and in your face. He is very much for a sustainable living, energy and cost saving designs, but he doesn’t believe for a single second that such a design and living has to be austere, plain, uninteresting, drab and ugly. He founded the architectural group BIG in Copenhagen, Denmark to counter just that. His motto, “Yes is More” is a testament to solving modern living problems headlong with genuine inspiration, ingenuity, and a deep sense of functional beauty. For example, his housing project Mountain Dwellings in a flat area Copenhagen takes that bold inspiration and created a beautiful set of urban apartments as if they were constructed at the slope of a mountain. Not only the setting and view act as exciting to the dwellers of this apartment complex, they can enjoy green living through green house-like terraces which are private and semi-public with a walk-out to roof gardens whose plants change with seasons.
His idea of “Hedonistic Sustainability” gave rise to the amazing design of waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen, on the roof of which people will be able to ski with different levels of skills. This is going to be the biggest structure in Copenhagen producing electricity to 140,000 homes and at the same time, enjoyment to thousands of skiers. Also, the specially constructed “chimney” at the top of the plant will let out 440 lbs of carbon di-oxide in a smoke ring, which Ingels says, would turn “the symbol of pollution into something playful, as well as reminding the residents a clear sign of the pollution they are causing.
To know more about his works in details, please visit:
http://www.archi-ninja.com/interview-with-bjarke-ingels/
http://www.big.dk/
http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_3_warp_speed_architecture_tales.html
http://www.dwell.com/articles/bjarke-ingels-of-big.html
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/bjarke-ingels-talks-hedonism-sustainability.php
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