8 Tallet

Name: 8 Tallet (aka: 8 House, Big House)

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Architect: Bjarke Ingles

Date of Construction: 2002010
 Funtion: to have living spaces, retail stores, and businesses co-exist as one community.

Floor Plan: The layout shows the path through the first floor as well as how you might experience the continuous path throughout the entire building. On the bottom left sketch it shows how a person on the walkway might pass by a person renting an apartment with a garden on the balcony.

Section: The southwest corner of the building slants downward  producing different size ceilings and is a unique section compared to the general shape of the building. The computer drawing allows for more details to be shown and for regions to be color coded compared to a regular pen and pencil sketch.

The void on the side of the building acts as a relief from the interior and is visually appealing since it encourages pedestrians to look out into the river and the sunset. From this angel the building invites people walking by to experience the wonders that take place within those walls.
From the top angel you can closely follow the path that a pedestrian can take to tour around the building. This non-stop path starts and finishes in the exact same place -- the south west corner. It takes you from the very bottom floor all the way to the penthouses on the 4th floor.

In the middle of this passage the author mentions that the building has a gap in the overlap of the figure 8 which connects the two interior courtyard. This is a brilliant idea because it facilitates the movement of people to come and go through the north and south sides of the building without any obstacle.

In this journal the author helps describe to the reader that BIG architects created the relief on the southwest corner not only for sunlight, but for cool wind to circulate through the entire building.The northeast side is slightly lowered and the northwest side is raises a floor up so that both sides get a great view towards the river.

In my drawing I used pencil to draw a perspective view looking out through the southwest corner. I believe that from this specific angel the view outside the building is much more important that the actual structure; because of this I left the building roughly sketched and water-colored the sky and grass to emphasize the importance of the view.

The interior of the building is quite accurate to the exterior of the building. The modern furniture and overall environment closely relates to the new and modern building. Both factors play an important role in persuading the potential inhabitant to buy an apartment or penthouse in this location. 

From this angel you get a better sense of the environment surrounding the building and house everything is planned. The iconic southwest corner of this building was very strategically placed near the lake because that is one of the more pleasant views when deciding which corner to expose.

 

At minute 4:00 in this video Bjarke does a great job explaining why he laid out the building the way he did. He says that he put the retail store and businesses on the first floor so they can interact with the movement of people passing by. He decided to put the apartments on the second and third floor so the residence can have a little more privacy and silence without the distractions of tourist and pedestrians. Lastly, Bjarke placed the penthouses on the top floor so the buyers will get a great view and their own personal garden with absolutely privacy.

I really like this flicker photo because it shows a great amount of rhythm from section to section. The human mind tends to have comfort with rhythm and makes things much more aesthetically pleasing.

I agree with what this blogger posted concerning the 8 House. The sentence that made me think was when he said people take this kind of lifestyle for granted. So many people, places and things are at our finger tips but we just act like its no big deal. I think the BIG did a great job in trying the make people realize the advantages of having everything so close. This is a very unique building that should not be taken for granted.

Towards the middle of this interview in 2012 Bjarke Ingels explains the overall philosophy and purpose to building his design and he think of concerning his building.

In this online magazine Bjarke and his coworkers for BIG talk about the building. Three things I got from this article were that the whole design team is extremely proud of the work they produced, the design team thought about not only people walking but as well as cyclist who would want to go through the path around the building, and that the whole team combined many different programs (residential and commercial) to produce what they call architectural alchemy. Overall, this is a great piece of architecture.

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