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User‐Focused Public Space(M)UTOPIA in Denmark
Author(s) -
Cornea Serban
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.614
Subject(s) - utopia , public space , danish , space (punctuation) , sociology , private space , architectural engineering , identity (music) , media studies , aesthetics , law , political science , computer science , engineering , art , philosophy , linguistics , operating system
The Danish practice MUTOPIA brings to public space a strong sense of delight and playfulness, while demonstrating an overriding concern with the end user. As Serban Cornea of MUTOPIA explains, a temporary plaza for the extensive development of Orestad Nord in Copenhagen aims ‘to speed up the process of creating the area's own identity’, while the practice's housing for Lyngby‐Taarb'k, Hovedstaden, audaciously puts the ‘garden’ back into the ‘garden suburb’ by relocating the transport infrastructure to the rooftops. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.