Is this project an amusement park? Resources are many and Bjarke Ingels has prepared a promotional film with the team of Squint / Opera that presents its design proposal for Europa City, a leisure and commercial recreation center which plans to begin construction in 2017, and has scheduled for completion in 2020.

The Europa City project is presented, in the first video, by Bjarke Ingels, explaining his ideas for a project scheme, whose plan basically consists of radial streets connected by a central loop pathway and adjacent areas or quarters with designated spaces for a water park, an international exhibition hall, sports, music venues, small shops, restaurants, and hotels, all under the platform of a large UFO. In a way, Europa City resembles the snail-like layout of the Parisian arrondissements.

The second video takes a journey through each of Europa City's quarters through the use of photorealistic 3D and 2D graphics and stills.

Squint/Opera worked with Bjarke Ingels to create a film using a green screen to explain each quarter of Europa City, a new destination to the north of Paris. The project is expected to open in 2020.

Combining a water park, exhibitions, sports, music venues, shops, restaurants, hotels and more, Europa City is proposed as a visionary leisure and culture hub outside Paris. The project, with views across the French capital, is designed by architect Bjarke Ingels of BIG. The developer is Alliages. The collaboration by Squint/Opera, included creating a film tour of the whole place combining photoreal 3D and 2D graphics, plus a series of stills to capture the excitement and energy of this centre.

 

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Bjarke Ingels (born in Copenhagen, 1974) studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ​​obtaining his degree as an architect in 1998. He is the founder of the BIG architecture studio - (Bjarke Ingels Group), studio founded in 2005, after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 with his former partner Julien de Smedt, whom he met while working at the prestigious OMA studio in Rotterdam.

Bjarke has designed and completed award-winning buildings worldwide, and currently his studio is based with venues in Copenhagen and New York. His projects include The Mountain, a residential complex in Copenhagen, and the innovative Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore.

With the PLOT study, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and with BIG he has received numerous awards such as the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. Other prizes are the Culture Prize of the Crown Prince of Denmark in 2011; and Along with his architectural practice, Bjarke has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen.

In 2018, Bjarke received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog granted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. He is a frequent public speaker and continues to give lectures at places such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street or the World Economic Forum. In 2018, Bjarke was appointed Chief Architectural Advisor by WeWork to advise and develop the design vision and language of the company for buildings, campuses and neighborhoods around the world.

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