In a previous post we wrote that Bjarke Ingels (1974), founder of the relatively young architectural practice BIG, is amongst the most prominent representatives of a generation of architects that tries and surpasses postmodern conventions, attitudes and strategies. Ingels’ approach to architecture is perhaps best described, in his own words, as Yes is More, or, more generally,.

Yes is More is the easily accessible but unremittingly radical manifesto of Copenhagen-based architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG.Unlike a typical architectural monograph, this book uses the comic book format to express its groundbreaking agenda for contemporary architecture. Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution. This thorough documentation of the work of trailblazing Danish firm BIG invites audiences into their processes, methods, and results via the most approachable and populist means of communication available - the cartoon. Canon printer service tool download. Published on the occassion of an exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen, 21 February - 31 May 2009.

Ingels, we wrote, seems to tap into the metamodern sensibility, appears to embody the metamodern attitude. For he most definitely oscillates between modern positions and postmodern ones, a certain out-of-this-worldness and a definite down-to-earthness, naivety and knowingness, idealism and the practical. The question remains, however, how Ingel’s rather contemporary approach to architecture translates into his designs for contemporary built space. BIG’s recent work has come to be associated with iconic motifs and ‘geological’ metaphors. Ramps and slopes and folded paths have become recurring and recognizable elements in a ‘BIG’ building, the driving force that sets it apart from other, aesthetically similar, solutions. Driven by a process of ‘pragmatic idealism’, BIG typically creates a synthesis between different programmatic elements that would not feature together ordinarily – and with unexpected results. The forms presented in the glossy magazines of the architectural press are ones of continuous surfaces that blur the boundaries between landscape and cityscape (nature and culture) and town and country (urb and suburb).

Let’s have a look at three different, yet related projects that surpass classic contradictions, as they grow increasingly complex, massive and fascinating. Completed in 2004, The Maritime Youth House in Copenhagen, (by the practice PLOT that would split to form BIG and JDS in 2006), was built for clients who had to share facilities but who had conflicting requirements. 3d map generator free download. Part social project with a youth space and outdoor space, the site was also required for the local junior sailing club to moor their boats.