HySociety proposal, Copenhagen, Denmark

Related people

PLOT (was created by)
PLOT (architect)

Date

2004

Description

"HySociety" was part of the Danish Pavilion exhibition at the 9th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy, 2004. The exhibition was titled "Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks," which refers to "Seven Pragmatic Utopias," architecture installations meant to make the world a better place to live for the majority. Rules for these pragmatic utopias are: solve a global problem, be economically profitable, show social responsibility, be a sustainable solution. Installations were created by the Danish architect studios PLOT, Kontrpunkt, NORD, Arkitema, SRL Arkitekter and Bruce Mau Design. Each installation is a proposition that takes architecture beyond the realm of buildings and into other areas of life that we have the capacity to design; from clean water and agricultural reform to energy use and social engineering. The "HySociety" proposal (or "Hydrogen Society") may look like utopia on a large scale, but may be realized in a miniature Denmark. PLOT located a 100,000-square-meter site in a new development area called Oerestaden in Copenhagen for their proposal. PLOT was founded in 2001 by architects Bjarke Ingels and Julien De Smedt. Keywords: Denmark, Kobenhavn, Copenhagen, Oerestaden, Biennale, complexes, model. Submitted by Bjarke Ingels for PLOT for the KSA Lecture Series, Winter 2006.

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