An Exploration of Bjarke Ingels
Will Johnson, Tai Kerzner, and I (Ellie) decided to study Bjarke Ingels for our pop-up book. We chose Bjarke since Will had seen an episode of Abstract on Bjarke and his work and had really enjoyed it. He told me and Tai about it, and we all agreed that his work fascinated us. We especially appreciated Ingels’ ability to reframe two seemingly mutually exclusive design elements into a beautiful coexistence. For example, converting topsoil pollution into a children’s playground or designing a ski slope on top of a powerplant. We admire his optimism and creativity. Speaking for myself, exploring Ingels’ work makes me want to pursue architecture (or space design) — I absolutely love how his work brings people together in unforeseen ways.
We decided to make our pop-up book on a simple powerpoint layout. Ingels’ work is often affordable and accessible, and we wanted our format to mirror this feature of his work. We also animated the reframes to give movement to Ingels’ ability to flip assumptions about architecture on its head.
We’re excited to continue following the Bjarke Ingels and his work. For me, he opened up a world and a career I haven’t given enough thought, even though I have always loved thinking about how design of spaces can bring us together.
Credits:
Learn More: https://big.dk/#projects (recommend sorting by “Status” — super interesting to see how many ideas and in progress works he has at a given time. Thank you for the opportunity to learn more about this topic, it only made us want to explore further.
(link to youtube coming)
