The most interesting part from the lecture this week to me is the concept of pragmatic utopia, which is brought by the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. According to his explanation, “this idea of a pragmatic utopia is about getting away from the idea that things can either be rational and boring, or sort of fantastic and expensive and impossible”. Therefore, It combines naive utopian fantasy, and rigid pragmatism, and practical utopian architecture is the creation of social, economic and environmental considerations.
A great example of practical utopia is Mountain Dwellings, which is also designed by Bjarke Ingels. Ingels created an artificial, south-facing "mountainside" on the building. Thus, each apartment can have a "backyard" on the roof of the property in front of it and below. So that households can enjoy the sun while at the same time ease the pressure city life brought.
No comments:
Post a Comment