The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is behind the vast majority of recent terrain-inspired architectural concepts, including this stunner commissioned by a Taipei developer. The mixed-use complex of housing, restaurants, cafes, pedestrian walkways, gardens and more features unparalleled vertical accessibility with walkable green roofs.
Walkable Green Roofs on a Mountainous Mixed-Use Complex
These skyscrapers, homes and city concepts eschew typical architectural silhouettes, taking inspiration from cliffs, mountains and hills to create artificial landscape features of their own. Whether attempting to blend into the surrounding landscape or rising defiantly from the flattest of environments, they seek a sense of harmony with the natural world.
Chaoyang Park Plaza by MAD Architecture
Gleaming like polished black basalt, the towering structures that make up MAD Architects’ Chaoyang Park Plaza explore the relationship between architecture and the natural landscape. The silhouettes are an interpretation of mountains and other shapes in classical Chinese paintings.
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Fake Hills Apartment Complex by MAD Archtiecture
The flat landscape of Beihai, China gets some new curves in the form of ‘Fake Hills,’ a monolithic apartment complex featuring an undulating roofline. Large openings in the structure maintain sunlight and views for the neighborhood behind it.
Zira Island by BIG
Yet another concept by BIG takes the mountainous terrain inspiration even further with an entire island of artificial landscape forms. Zira Island was envisioned for the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, recreating the nation’s natural landscape in miniature with a series of entirely self-sufficient structures that create an ecosystem of their own using the latest in sustainable technologies. Read more http://weburbanist.com/2014/04/30/architecture-as-landscape-15-terrain-inspired-buildings/
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