Name: 【TED】Bjarke Ingels: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future (Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels)
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that I have the same proportions as a LEGO man.

in making everybody believe that LEGO is from their home country.

So you can imagine my excitement when the LEGO family called me

and asked us to work with them to design the Home of the Brick.

This is the architectural model -- we built it out of LEGO, obviously.

a building that would be as interactive and as engaging and as playful

with these kind of interconnected playgrounds on the roofscape.

where the citizens of Billund can roam around freely without a ticket.

And it's probably one of the only museums in the world

where you're allowed to touch all the artifacts.

But the Danish word for design is "formgivning," which literally means

to give form to that which has not yet been given form.

In other words, to give form to the future.

And what I love about LEGO is that LEGO is not a toy.

It's a tool that empowers the child to build his or her own world,

and then to inhabit that world through play

and to invite her friends to join her in cohabiting and cocreating that world.

As human beings, we have the power to give form to our future.

we've built a social housing project in Copenhagen,

where we stacked blocks of wood next to each other.

Between them, they leave spaces with extra ceiling heights and balconies.

we can actually create curves or any organic form,

Because adaptability is probably one of the strongest drivers of architecture.

We were asked to look at the site where Granville bridge triforks

And we started, like, mapping the different constraints.

There's like a 100-foot setback from the bridge

that no one looks into the traffic on the bridge.

There's a park where we can't cast any shadows.

So finally, we're left with a tiny triangular footprint,

what if the 100-foot minimum distance is really about minimum distance --

once we get 100 feet up in the air, we can grow the building back out.

it's as if someone is pulling a curtain aback,

Or a like a weed growing through the cracks in the pavement

Underneath the bridge, we've worked with Rodney Graham

to create what we called the Sistine Chapel of street art,

that tries to turn the negative impact of the bridge into a positive.

So even if it looks like this kind of surreal architecture,

So if a bridge can become a museum, a museum can also serve as a bridge.

In Norway, we are building a museum that spans across a river

and allows people to sort of journey through the exhibitions

as they cross from one side of a sculpture park to the other.

An architecture sort of adapted to its landscape.

In China, we built a headquarters for an energy company

and we designed the facade like an Issey Miyake fabric.

It's rippled, so that facing the predominant direction of the sun,

facing away from the sun, it's all glass.

On average, it sort of transitions from solid to clear.

And this very simple idea without any moving parts

purely because of the geometry of the facade,

reduces the energy consumption on cooling by 30 percent.

So you can say what makes the building look elegant

It's an architecture that is adapted to its climate.

You can also adapt one culture to another,

like in Manhattan, we took the Copenhagen courtyard building

with a social space where people can hang out

in this kind of oasis in the middle of a city,

and we combined it with the density and the verticality

creating what we've called a "courtscraper."

we are right now finishing this waste-to-energy power plant.

It's going to be the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world,

there are no toxins coming out of the chimney.

An amazing marvel of engineering that is completely invisible.

And in Copenhagen we have snow, as you can see,

We have to go six hours by bus to get to Sweden,

So we thought, let's put an alpine ski slope

【TED】Bjarke Ingels: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future (Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels)

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