BIG Formgiving An Architectural Future History — Kolektif

Formgiving An Architectural Future History the new book by BIG Bjarke Ingels Group is a visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time The Danish word for design is formgivning which literally means to give form to that which has not yet taken shape In other words to give form to the future Using our power to give form rather than allowing the future to take shape is more important now than ever as humankind s impact on the planet continues to increase and pose ever greater challenges to all life forms Architecture plays a special role by proposing spaces for our lives that are fragments of the future in the making William Gibson s words embody architecture s role perfectly The future is already here it s just not evenly distributed With Formgiving BIG presents the third part of its TASCHEN trilogy which began with Yes is More one of the most successful architectural books of its generation and continued with Hot to Cold An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation The book is presented in a timeline stretching from the Big Bang into the most distant future Projects are structured around six strands of evolution Making Sensing Sustaining Thinking Healing and Moving the multimedia based interdisciplinary concepts encompassing the building industry Culture climate and landscape as well as all the energies derived from the elements the thermal mass of the ocean the dynamics of currents the energy and warmth of the sun the power of the wind are incorporated into these projects Throughout more than 700 pages Bjarke Ingels presents his personal selection of projects including the 12 000 square meter LEGO House in Denmark the human made ecosystems floating on oceans the redesign of a World War II bunker into a contemplative museum and the ski slope infused power plant celebrating Copenhagen s commitment to carbon neutrality Through architecture and design BIG gives shape to a sustainable and simultaneously colorful world Bjarke Ingels To feel that we have license to imagine a future different from today all we have to do is look back ten years a hundred years a thousand years to realize how radically different things were then than they are today The same will be true if we can look ahead with the same clarity of vision As we tackle the complexities of everyday life these six evolutionary trajectories allow us to place a firm gaze on the horizon of time to prevent us from being derailed by the random distractions of today Since we know from our past that our future is bound to be different from our present rather than waiting for it to take shape on its own we have the power to give it form Formgiving is also a companion volume to the exhibition of the same name which was conceived at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen and will travel to other venues worldwide More than 65 projects document BIG s global work through the eyes of their users from the drawing board to global construction sites and finished projects Throughout the book are insights into developments that reach five ten or fifty years into the future and evidence of BIG s intransigence to reach beyond the ordinary and beyond worlds to contribute to the future with each project Each step not only reveals a world that resembles our dreams but also already tries to realize these dreams pragmatically We have the power to create the world of tomorrow The book features previously unpublished essays by Bjarke Ingels award winning photography by Laurian Ghinitoiu Iwan Baan and Rasmus Hjortshøj among others planetary proposals for habitats on the Moon and research centers on Mars 20 LEGO master builder models of BIG s work a glimpse of Masterplanet BIG s ongoing work on a collective crowdsourced masterplan guide for sustaining our planet Tanıtım Bülteninden