The fashion architect on Earth already imagines life on Mars

The fashion architect on Earth already imagines life on Mars

What really excites Bjarke Ingels, one of the most famous and influential architects at the moment, is to play. Play in the purest sense of the word, as children do, turning the game into an adventure, an object of invention and a meaning that gives direction to life. Thus, with this innovative and curious spirit, he faces his projects: "Of course there is a type of child component in all this," he said in an interview about his work for the Web SSense. When you're a child you don't dream of becoming an architect, your dream is to become an astronaut. But I also like this idea that architecture is inventing how to make the planet more livable for human life. Not only do we have to climb a tree or find a cave. We can build our own tree or our own cave. So, what kind of tree would we like to climb? "

The New English study project is a city that will be built in the middle of the desert simulating being on Mars. In this way, he will unite that childish dream of traveling to space with a profession, architecture, which he defines as "the art and science of converting fiction into reality." As a reality they are already some of the most emblematic buildings of the current urbanism (the seat of Lego in Denmark, or the future of Google in California), left of the imagination of this Dane considered by many the architectural genius of the XXI century. Its philosophy always at the forefront, is exhibited on the website of BIG (Bjarne Ingels Group), the study to which it gives name: "Historically, architecture has been dominated by two opposite ends: an avant-garde full of crazy ideas, which has originated from Philosophy to mysticism, and the well-organized corporate consultants that build high-quality, predictable and boring boxes. Architecture seems entrenched: naively utopian or pragmatic petrificantemente. We believe that there is a third way between these diametric opposites: a pragmatic-utopian architecture that creates perfect places socially, economically and environmentally as a practical objective. In BIG we are dedicated to investing in the coincidence between the radical and the reality. In all our actions we try to move the focus of the small details to the big (big) image. "

This great image will come out, according to the magazine Rolling Stone, of the head of Ingels, whom it described as "the man who builds the future". Part of that future goes through the expansion of our species to other planets and, in particular, to Mars, a possibility that ever seems closer. And what will our first cities be like there? The Danish response appears far from the metal lengthy we have seen in sci-fi movies: "Of course, people don't want to live in a canned can, he says. So if we're going to Mars we should try to create an environment that we can enjoy. We want to have access to plants, parks, sunlight, breathable air, to an acceptable temperature range. " Mars Science City, the city that has projected to be built in the United Arab Emirates, responds to this concern: it is a number of inflatable and ultralight plastic domes, which will cover buildings raised on the ground and constructions Underground. The idea of Ingels is that, on our arrival in Mars, instead of moving materials-which would be very expensive-we are able to take advantage of those that already exist on the planet to build through 3d printing and aided by robotics. Mars Science City, which has an initial funding of 150 million dollars from the Emirates, is an original and risky proposal. The only possible way if, as Ingels assures, we dare to truly innovate: "We are not recreating something that has always been there. We are shaping a future that has never existed. "