The annual Forum AID awards ceremony took place February 3rd in Stockholm and once again honored the best in Nordic Architecture, interiors and design. Bjarke Ingels and his team were nominated in the Architecture category for their Copenhagen-based project called Mountain Dwellings. BIG competed against seventeen other entries from all of the Nordic countries.

Mountain Dwellings was realized in an effort to satisfy the wishes of two different clients: One requested a parking house to serve several of the apartment blocks of the area. The other requested a housing block.

The project, completed in August of 2008, consisted of a mountain of 20,000 square-meters of parking that acted as the escalating foundation for 10, 000 square-meters of terrace houses. The idea was to create “a mountainside of single-family homes resting upon the colorful foundation of contemporary car culture.” Mountain Dwellings combines the splendors of the suburban backyard with the social intensity of urban density.

For more information on the Forum Aid awards, click here.

Posted by Nicholas Van Kuren