BENA designs, produces, and installs a complete building ‘skeleton’ using the highest quality concrete in the construction industry. VISION: BENA will become the UAE’s premier supplier of Precast Aerated Concrete structures, through not only high quality product, but through elevated standards of service, support, and community involvement. BENA will become the standard by which similar companies in the industry are judged. By building a highly-specialized staff, maintaining cutting-edge product development, and providing top-notch service.
BIG-designed buildings were recreated in LEGO bricks by AFoL (Adult Fans of LEGO) master builders from all over the world. Each model was paired with the building’s three-dimensional digital information model that embodies all technical aspects of the project – from the functional layouts, structure and circulation to the mechanical services and materials – into a single digital twin of the built reality. With these two data points – the ‘low-res’ physical abstractions of the LEGO models and the ‘high-res’ digital specifications – visitors could see the complexity behind the playful simplicity.
BIG proposes to turn the light rail line into a spine of dense urbanity with a series of peaks at the stations. By combing the rail with strategies for energy exchange, waste management, water treatment and electric car stations, the infrastructure could become the base for a new sustainable ring of development around Copenhagen, and an artery of true urbanity pumping life into the heart of the suburbs. At certain points the rail becomes a building itself almost like a Roman aqueduct passing through the suburbs, at other points it forms small pockets of urbanity around the stations.
The site is laid out as a grid of , x , meter squares, creating one continuous pixelated surface. As a topographic map the surface is morphed to form a terraced landscape of towers, accommodating . m housing, hotel, offices and shops. The project becomes an accumulation of individual niches and outdoor spaces forming a collective organic architecture a Scandinavian high rise typology incorporating the human scale, the rationality and flexibility of Danish building tradition.
With hard-sound reflecting surfaces and an open ceiling, the dry docks acoustics are perfect for dance performances and concerts, but also suitable for other outdoor activities, exhibitions, and events turning the Maritime Museum into a center for cultural life in Helsingor. Through minimal means, BIGs design created maximum functionality and architectural resonance.