BIG architects: finger plan to loop city at venice architecture biennale

'1947-2047: from finger plan to loop city' by BIG architects at the 2010 venice architecture biennale danish pavilion
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as part of this year's venice architecture biennale, bjarke ingels group
has developed a film illustrating their proposal for a new metro loop
in the industrial, cross-border region of copenhagen's suburbs. under the question,
'how do we tie two countries together in one metropolitan loop?',
'1947-2047: from finger plan to loop city' looks at the famous urban
planning strategy from 1947 and aims to maximize connectivity in the metropolitan
region by stringing together a number of highly differentiated urban nodes.

presented at the official danish pavilion, the film was projected on a two-wall
corner of the room, utilizing the three-dimensional space to fully present
the scheme; a white, bridge-like structure on the floor acted as a volumetric
surface to project on, resulting in a series of diagrams that seemed to be constructed
and solid for the audience.

the new development model will connect the area around the øresund strait
in a sustainable spine of public transport, energy exchange and electric car
infrastructure. situated at the base of the original finger plan like a bracelet
on the hand, the loop will combine new programs with the metro stations,
becoming a vein of true urbanity running through the suburbs.



projection of the film at the danish pavilion
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(when the designboom team was down in venice for the event, we had
a chance to see the film. the following clip is a snippet of the project in
low quality--the speech bubbles are unreadable--as it was originally
taken for note-taking purposes. we will be posting the full, original clip
when BIG architects hopefully releases it soon!)



a part of '1947-2047: from finger plan to loop city'



diagrammatic overview of the plan
courtesy danish architecture centre



diagrams showing the planned light rail proposal
courtesy danish architecture centre



new plan linking the urban nodes
courtesy danish architecture centre


the videos below cover the history of the finger plan as well as
the aims and changes that the new metro loop will bring to the area.



part 1 of 'loop city' courtesy danish architecture centre



part 2 of 'loop city' courtesy danish architecture centre



showing the rendering of the upgraded light rail
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bjarke ingels at the danish pavilion
portrait © designboom


presentation movie credits:

movie: BIG, kollision, CAVI
collaborators: teis draiby, glessner group
model: arkitekturministeriet

danish pavilion credits:

commissioner: kent martinussen
curators: jan d. geipel and tine vindfeld
sponspored by: the danish ministry of culture, realdania,
the danish arts foundation, CPH city & port development,
carlsberg, copenhagen x
exhibition design: ali tabatabai, WEM3
production: ulrik bliss
graphic design: naja tolsing
editor copenhagen x: eva ørum
coordination in venice: troels bruun and daniela murgia