MUTOPIA’s Vertical Village proposal for a new space effective and socially sustainable vertical neighborhood in Copenhagen made of stacked family houses is part of the exhibition Vertical Village in Taipei, Taiwan, by Dutch practice MVRDV.

Produced by The Why Factory, MVRDV’s research think tank based at TU Delft University, The Vertical Village analyzes the rapid urban transformation occurring in East Asia, and assesses the qualities of informal settlements as an alternative to the rapid and monotonous block urbanization of Asian cities from Taipei to Tokyo, Beijing to Bangkok.

The exhibition is the result of a three-year long research project, commissioned by the JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture, the cultural branch of the JUT Group, Taiwan’s leading luxury housing developer.

http://www.jut-arts.org.tw/theverticalvillage/

http://www.mvrdv.nl/#/undefined/verticalvillageexhibitionopensintaipei

The rapid expansion of the urban sprawl has many negative social and environmental impacts which call for new models for growth of these urban environments to achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Serban Cornea will deliver a lecture on densification strategies as a means of creating sustainable development and attractiveness in future suburbs at “Future suburbs”, a conference on potentials for transformation of Danish suburbs towards becoming sustainable living environments.

The event is organized by The Danish Society of Engineers (IDA), and will take place at Nordkraft, Aalborg the 7^th of February 2012.

http://ida.dk/Sider/Forside.aspx

http://www.nordkraft.dk/Vejviser.aspx?ID=7

OKS (Odense Comrades’ Sportsclub) have decided to commission MUTOPIA to develop a new concept for a public recreative space in central Odense – a sports park dubbed ‘Spark’.

The park will feature a double layered functionality, for sports, football, exercise and play, while also staging an informal open social space.

The lecture, followed by a panel discussion with C-Lab director and former AMO principal Jeffrey Inaba and Snøhetta founding partner Craig Dykers, and moderated by Carson Chan, took place during the Oslo Architecture Festival the 23rd of September 2011.

http://www.arkitektur.no/?nid=222091

MUTOPIA launches U_Build University, an internet-based platform to visualize and manage the moving of staff and functions during the process of re-building of universities.

U_Build University is a follow-up to U_Build, MUTOPIA’s web-based dialogue- and process management tool, designed to ensure more effective moving processes while minimizing their impact on the university staff. U_Build University is launched during summer 2011 at The University of Copenhagen – Southern Campus.

Academic and technical personnel at universities are facing a large number of moving processes in the upcoming years as a result of the new reform of the Danish research- and university sector. Due to rebuilding processes and the new mergers, large numbers of employees will shift to new working environments.

In the same time, the education of highly qualified workforce and the production of new knowledge within the university sector are significant for future Danish competitiveness worldwide.

U_Build University targets an improvement of the working environment by means of user involvement and technology support, aiming at reducing time consumption, expenses and stress caused by lack of overview and coordination of large scale moving process, thereby securing a greater and sharpened focus on research and education.

U_Build University is economically supported by University of Copenhagen and The Danish PWT Foundation – Investments in Public Welfare Technology (ABT-fonden) – The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs as a part of the program directed towards developing and improving public sector services through the implementation of labour-saving technologies and more efficient working processes.

MUTOPIA’s competition proposal for a high density urban block URBAN CROWN is on display at The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art along with the results of the A101 competition as part of the exhibition LIVING/Frontiers of architecture III-IV.

The A101 Urban Block competition aimed at introducing a Block Size Standard as an Open Source in architecture, in order to enable the development of adaptable and affordable architecture based on worldwide mass-production of readymade projects.

The Urban Block competition is based on the Block City concept, developed by Bart Goldhoorn and Alexander Sverdlov in the context of the International Biennale in Rotterdam in 2009.

http://www.louisiana.dk/dk/Service+Menu+Right/English

Kristina Adsersen will take part in a discussion panel on the potential of communication for stimulating an architecture which supports multiplicity in response to the increasing number of stakeholders, increased projects’ complexity and new development processes, together with Jeffrey Inaba and Craig Dykers.

The Architecture Day will open the Architecture Festival at Vulkan in Oslo the 23^rd of September as a part of the Year of Architecture, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Association of Norwegian Architects, focused on changes in society and how these alter the role of architecture.

The Year of Architecture is Norway’s biggest architectural event yet, and is organized by the National Association of Norwegian Architects. Contributors include the association’s professional communities, its member associations, architect firms, public and cultural institutions and business.

http://2011.arkitektur.no/arkitekturfestivalen

http://www.arkitektur.no/?nid=222331

The conference, organized by the Danish Association of Construction Clients, aims at uncovering potentials for optimizing the strategies of Danish construction clients in the early stages of a building project.

The Danish Association of Construction Clients (DACC) is an interest group representing professional construction clients in Denmark.

The conference will take place during the 9^th – 10^th of June at Toldboden, Nordre Toldbod 24, 1013 København K.

http://www.i2p.dk/arrangementer/20

http://www.bygherreforeningen.dk/

MUTOPIA launches Sports Village, a masterplan for a new sports and leisure area within Remiseparken, one of the largest park structures of Copenhagen.

The proposal merges sports fields and pitched roof houses to create an intriguing, amusing, challenging and inviting environment that promotes social gathering, playful interaction and a strengthened sense of community.

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The radical changes of the last decades in the proportions and life patterns of actively engaged sports population ask for new innovative solutions to meet the new cultural diversities.

The new sports field generation aims at providing new aesthetic and functional qualities to become a meeting point for the local communities and support new social and sports practices regardless age and interest.

The project will be developed in collaboration with sports fields’ producer Sportsconnect, playground and sport equipment producer Lars Laj, and The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities, who will support the development process, project implementation and prototype costs.

http://www.sportsconnect.dk/

http://www.larslaj.dk/

http://www.loa-fonden.dk/nyheder/nyhedsbreve/nyhedsbreve-2011/2011/nyhedsbrev-nr-8—april-2011

The event is organized by the Danish Architects’ Association, and will take place at Trapholt Museum, Kolding the 14^th of April.

http://www.arkitektforeningen.dk/Aktuelt/Kalender/SpeedMeet%3A%20Fremtiden%20i%20Forstaden

U_Build will provide support to orchestrate a highly intricate range of uncoordinated moves in order to ensure a more effective moving process by visualizing needs, agendas and time schedules for the 20.000 people large university campus.

U_Build University targets an improvement of the working environment by means of user involvement and technology support, aiming at reducing time consumption, expenses and stress caused by lack of overview and coordination of this large scale moving process.

The project is supported by The Danish PWT Foundation – Investments in Public Welfare Technology (ABT-fonden) – The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs as a part of the program directed towards developing and improving public sector services through the implementation of labour-saving technologies and more efficient working processes.

U_Build University is developed in collaboration with 3D facto and Smith Innovations.

www.abtfonden.dk

http://3dfacto.com/home.aspx

http://smithinnovation.dk/

The lecture aims at demonstrating how user involvement contributes to innovation of the built environment, while in the same time providing a sense of community, ownership and safety.

The Safe Borough is an initiative launched the 5th of May 2010 to unite representatives from various Danish boroughs, state authorities, stakeholders and knowledge brokers in order to develop untraditional, innovative and simple solutions to promote safety of Danish citizens and local communities.

The Safe Borough provides a platform to support exchange of knowledge and ideas, creation of networks and new projects based on creativity and initiatives from citizens and communities.

The Safe Borough collaborates with EIRM, The European Institute for Risk Management.

http://www.dentryggekommune.dk/Forside
http://www.eirm.com/

MUTOPIA’s competition proposal URBAN CROWN has been selected as a high-density urban block solution to be applied in the A101 masterplan, a project for a new city of 150.000 people and 13 million m2 of housing near Moscow and the largest development of the Masstab Company.

The Urban Block competition is based on the Block City concept, developed by Bart Goldhoorn and Alexander Sverdlov in the context of the International Biennale in Rotterdam in 2009. The Block City concept aims at combining the advantages of standard design with the qualities embedded in site-specific design by defining a standard for the plot size of the urban block, leading to interchangeable projects of the same size which can be re-used in new standard-sized plots in order to achieve better and cheaper housing.

The 154ha masterplan is designed in competition by MVRDV, Netherlands; KCAP/Next Architects, Netherlands;  Hilmer Sattler Albrecht, Germany and EDDAE, Spain.

MUTOPIA has been commissioned to develop a masterplan for the 1ha large Eastern part of the 3.5ha large Remiseparken, one of the most visited parks in Copenhagen.

Conceived as a strategy for the revitalization of the entire surrounding urban area with 5.000 residents, the project aims to respond to the needs of a growing group of users of various age for identity, sense of community and healthy lifestyle.