Video: LEGO MANIA
Danish architecture firm BIG took a small-scale modular building material (also known as the LEGO), and went big. Five weeks and 250,000 LEGOS later, at a scale of 1:50, their project is the tallest tower ever built from the toy blocks, and a commentary on development in Denmark. BIG built the model for the upcoming Storefront for Art and Architecture show, "CPH Experiments", which looks at architecture in Copenhagen, a city that has pioneered prefab building. In the statement on the Storefront website BIG says:
Denmark has become a country built from LEGO bricks. Rather than seeing the modular mania as a straightjacket, this project is a homage to Danish building industry. By turning the site in to a modular matrix of 12X12ft we created an elastic field of peaks and valleys. A thousand plateaus ascending and descending, separating and merging to form a fluid space of private and public plateaus. Combining the rigorous and the adventurous. The box and the blob.
From the time-lapse video, you can see how much manpower it took to build the towers. However, the secret to all of the busy-bee action is possibly that architects are an obsessive breed; but also that BIG concepted the model using LEGO Digital Designer. Every piece was pre-selected and accounted for. The building blocks of the model, like a prefab house, were delivered to the prepared site (in this case a pre-constructed table) as a kit of (many, many) parts, ready for assembly. So if you've got the time, the dime and the design, clearly LEGO can deliver.
The model, and the 1,000 LEGO people who inhabit it will be on display at the Storefront for Art and Architecture on 97 Kenmare Street in New York City from 2 Oct – 24 Nov.
Denmark has become a country built from LEGO bricks. Rather than seeing the modular mania as a straightjacket, this project is a homage to Danish building industry. By turning the site in to a modular matrix of 12X12ft we created an elastic field of peaks and valleys. A thousand plateaus ascending and descending, separating and merging to form a fluid space of private and public plateaus. Combining the rigorous and the adventurous. The box and the blob.
From the time-lapse video, you can see how much manpower it took to build the towers. However, the secret to all of the busy-bee action is possibly that architects are an obsessive breed; but also that BIG concepted the model using LEGO Digital Designer. Every piece was pre-selected and accounted for. The building blocks of the model, like a prefab house, were delivered to the prepared site (in this case a pre-constructed table) as a kit of (many, many) parts, ready for assembly. So if you've got the time, the dime and the design, clearly LEGO can deliver.
The model, and the 1,000 LEGO people who inhabit it will be on display at the Storefront for Art and Architecture on 97 Kenmare Street in New York City from 2 Oct – 24 Nov.
Posted by: Chelsea Holden Baker on Sep 22, 07 at 09:00 AM PDT
