Bjarke ingels— founder & creative director, big the new center repositions the campus entry from the main quad, known as the beach, to charles street This shift not only opens the university to the adjacent charles village, but it also sets the stage for future development along this corridor. Big has grown organically over the last two decades from a founder, to a family, to a force of 700 Our latest transformation is the big leap Bjarke ingels group of landscape, engineering, architecture, planning and products. Bjarke ingels group of landscape, engineering, architecture, planning and products
From their exceptionally comprehensive response to our submission call and throughout the design process, big’s willingness to both listen to us and push us has conceived a project that celebrates our history and embodies the ambitious optimism that animates our academic mission.” Big’s aim was to amplify treehotel’s focus on sustainability and natural tourism, and create a resilient design in a region with strong seasonal climatic contrasts. Located in the town of gelephu in southern bhutan, the 1000+ km2 masterplan titled ‘mindfulness city’ by big, arup, and cistri is informed by bhutanese culture, the principles of gross national happiness index (gnh), and the country’s strong spiritual heritage. Designed by big landscape, the courtyard’s design is repeated in the office’s surrounding landscape, where green pockets for socializing are placed close to the entry area. Big’s scheme picks up on this logic by integrating similar, publicly accessible pathways within the structure itself The existing city block at the site was developed a century ago with a network of lanes and passages
