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21 June - 20 July, 11am - 6pm
Pop-up Storefront London
1-5 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London, SW7 2HE
 
  
Pop-up Storefront London is part of a series of temporary outposts of Storefront for Art and Architecture, a New York-based gallery committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Having previously visited Los Angeles and Milan, Storefront will appear in London with the exhibition CPH Experiments.
CPH Experiments, an exhibition that inaugurated at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York in October 2007, presents a series of recent design projects and large-scale models by the Copenhagen-based architecture practice BIG/Bjarke Ingels Group. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a model of the Mountain Dwellings made out of 250,000 LEGO bricks.
BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. In their projects, BIG tests the effects of size and the balance of programmatic mixtures on the triple bottom line of the social, economical and ecological outcome. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, they create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, and shopping.
The exhibition showcases some built works and a number of large-scale models illustrating proposals for innovative residential typologies, all of which are situated in Copenhagen. Focusing on Kløverkarrén, BIG House, the LEGO project, Mountain Dwellings and VM Houses (both designed in conjunction with JDS Architects), the exhibition presents a broad spectrum of the research that has gone into varying housing solutions for different generational attitudes and economical backgrounds.
Each project’s effect and reception is presented differently, depending on how it operates in the public realm, ranging from images of life in the VM houses post-occupation, through the 250.000 piece LEGO model inhabited by 1000 LEGO people, to the excessive political debate about Kløverkarreen.
On July 4, Storefront will hold a day-long event hosted by Geoff Manaugh, founder of BLDGBLOG and senior editor of Dwell magazine, San Francisco.
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