ONE OF TODAY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL ARCHITECTS: BJARKE INGELS
As T-COD Architecture, this week we would like to tell you about the architectural approach and structures of Bjarke Ingels, who is considered one of the most successful architects of today. Let's take a look at Bjarke Ingels archhitectural career and understanding of architecture.
WHO IS BJARKE INGELS, ONE OF THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?
Born in Denmark in 1974, Bjarke Ingels noticed his talent for drawing at a young age. Ingels said, ''I always wanted to be a comic book artist,'' and started attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts thanks to this dream. Over time, he realized that the comic book universe was created by cities, buildings and nature, and turned to architecture. Ingels, who followed technology closely and spent time in libraries, was inspired by the doyen architects. This curious life led him to work at Rem Koolhaas' studio OMA. Although he started out with his colleague from OMA, Julien de Smedt, in 2001, he decided to continue his production alone in 2006 after the VM Houses project.
WITH HIS ARCHITETURAL APPROACH: BJARKE INGELS
Bjarke Ingels designed buildings that he defined as utopian and pragatical, so that users could get maximum efficiency. Although his designs are called extreme in his country, Ingels emphasizes that creating the elements that define city architecture is possible by using the technology of our age and designing structures that provide maximum benefit. Stating that design is born from knowledge and shaped by good analysis, the architect serves as a professor at Rice University School of Architecture and Columbia University Institute of Architecture, Planning and Conservation.
VM HOUSES / COPENHAGEN_DENIMARK
Winner of the Best Building in Scandinavia at the Forum Award in 2006 and the Mies van der Rohe Honor Award the following year, VM Houses are designed to offer the best amount of light and the best visibility to the highest number of homeowners. Ingels, who designed it together with his partner at the time, Julien Smedt, later realized the projects he would build in this region under the roof of BIG, where he laid the foundations. Architects reinterpreted Le Corbusier's concept of social housing. In VM Houses, both blocks are positioned to embrace each other. The fact that M and V forms cover each other has rational reasons based on functionality rather than aesthetics.
MOUNTAIN DWELLINGS, TWO WORLD TRADE AND 8 HOUSE are among the other works of the famous architect.
