As part of today’s collaboration with CAMP, VDF is showing this lecture in which Danish architecture studio COBE explains how it helped make Copenhagen one of the most liveable cities in the world.
COBE, which was founded in 2006, primarily works in three fields: urbanism, architecture and public space, the studio’s project director Thomas Krarup explained in this talk from CAMP in May 2018.
“We don’t work like normal architects – drawing up plans which others execute – we use Lego as a metaphor to for our collective approach to creating architecture, working with landscape architects, urbanists, constructing architects, architects and also with clients and stakeholders in the neighbourhoods we build in,” Krarup said.
The studio has six principles that it applies to its work, including “From infrastructure to public space.”
Its 2018 book “Our Urban Living Room” tried to explain how Copenhagen went from a poor city on the verge of bankruptcy, to top the lists of the most liveable cities in the world.
COBE works extensively in Copenhagen and recently redesigned the Nørreport station, the most congested place in the city, using the way people moved in the urban area to guide its design.
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