018.コペンハーゲン 03.BIG
018.Copenhagen 03.BIG

2023年2月15日

建築家BIGのつくる建築を雑誌で見ていると、プレゼンが冗談ぽく見え、粗悪で雑な建築を、プレゼンで底上げしているのかなと思っていました。その先入観は、コペンハーゲンで実作を見て、覆されました。

When I saw the architectural works designed by architect BIG in a magazine, the presentation seemed like a joke. I thought that he raised poor and sloppy architecture through presentation. My preconceived notion was overturned when I saw his actual works in Copenhagen.

8 talletの中庭とそれを囲むスロープと住戸を見る。スロープは８の字に回り込みながら、最上階まで続く。スロープの下は、オフィスや共有施設になっている。
See the courtyard and the ramps and dwelling units surrounding it. The slope goes around in a figure 8 and continues to the top floor. Below the ramps are offices and shared facilities.
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８の字型をした巨大な集合住宅８Talletは、８の字の中央が大きな中庭。その中庭に沿って、スロープが地上から最上階までつなぎます。住戸は、中庭側と外回りの２方に窓を持ち、中庭側は、スロープの間に小さな前庭を挟んで、大開口の窓でつながります。中庭には住戸の気配が伝わり、住戸には、中庭の様子が入り込みますが、プライバシーの緩衝帯となる前庭と、反対側の外に開いた窓の効果で、居心地はよさそう。閉じずに、他者を受け入れ、一緒に暮らして行く、寛容なコミュニティが現れていました。

端部が大きく切り取られた中庭は、光も大きく入り、圧迫感はありません。不定形のため、スロープを上るに連れ、次々と景色が変わり、四角形の集合住宅の廊下の単調さとは対照的。

今まで見た中で、もっともコミュニティが魅力的で、住んでみたいと思わせる集合住宅でした。

Moutain Dwellingsは、北欧の山や森につくられた、簡素な週末住居を上下に積み上げて、集合住宅にしたもの。東側、運河を挟んだ向こう側には、ほぼ平屋の住宅が低密度で埋立地に並び、週末住居の立つ郊外を彷彿させます。土地のかつての記憶を、この建築の出発点にしたようで見事。

一方、敷地の西側は、線路敷と人工的な建築の立て込んだ新興地区で、Moutain Dwellingsの西側は、駐車場を積層してエキスパンドメタルで覆っています。２つの異なる景観の境界という条件を、斬新に建築化していました。

移民地区ノアボロに、アーティスト集団のSuperflexとの協働でつくった、多文化をテーマにした公園Superkilenも楽しい。コンセプトの一つが、各国からストリートファニチュアを取り寄せることで、日本代表は、「前田環境美術」がつくった、たこ滑り台。

8 Tallet was a big housing complex with a large courtyard in the center of the figure-8 planning. A ramp around the courtyard connected all floors from the ground floor to the top floor. The dwelling units had windows on both the courtyard side and the outside. The window on the courtyard side conveyed the sense of interior to the courtyard, and the atmosphere of the courtyard came in the dwelling unit. By the effect of the front garden, which served as a buffer zone for privacy, and the window that opened to the other side, the dwelling unit looked comfortable. A tolerant community that accepted others and lived together without closing emerged.

The courtyard with its large cut end brought a lot of light and did not feel oppressive. Due to its irregular shape, the scenery changed one after another as they went up the ramp, in contrast to the monotony of the corridors in the rectangular housing complex.

It generated the most attractive community I've ever seen, and it was a housing complex that led me to want to live there.

Mountain Dwellings was the housing complex that vertically stacked simple weekend cottages built in the forests of Scandinavia. On a reclaimed land on the east side, low-density single-story houses were lined up beyond the canal, reminiscent of the suburbs where weekend cottages stood. It was splendid that the memory of the land became the starting point for this architecture.

On the other hand, on the west side of the site, a new district with railroad tracks and artificial architecture extended. This side of Mountain Dwellings was a parking lot covered with laminated expanded metal. BIG reflected the condition of the boundary between two different landscapes novelly on the architecture.

In the immigrant district of Nørrebros, he created a multicultural-themed park in collaboration with the artist group Superflex. It was also fun. One of the concepts was to order street furniture from various countries, and the Japanese representative was an octopus slide made by "Maeda Environmental Art Company"

8 tallet