3XN Interview: Shaping the New IOC
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- How do you transform values into a building? We met with Danish architect and founder of the renowned studio 3XN, Kim Herforth Nielsen, to talk about their design for Olympic House - the spectacular new headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, which has been heralded as one of the most sustainable buildings in the world.
The IOC headquarters is formed around five key objectives, which echo the Olympic movement’s core principles: movement, transparency, flexibility, sustainability and collaboration. The dynamic, undulating glass façade emulates the movements of an athlete, just as the building is made to enhance the team-building of the organization, which is also an essential part of sports. The building brings together 500 employees who have hitherto worked in disparate offices throughout the city, and 3XN have worked with the symbol of the organization - the five rings - by making five staircases, which are organized in a way that makes it necessary to visit all the different floors when ascending: “That way you meet more people from the organization.” Designing with the employees in mind, is also apparent in the interior shape of the building, which adheres to the aim of having a flatter organization and consequently more equality: “Architecture shapes behaviour.” Moreover, the entire roof of the building is shaped as another symbol for IOC - the dove: “Because peace is very important, IOC is a peaceful organization.” Finally, Nielsen argues that he considers the building a sculpture or an installation that you can work in: “It becomes a big sculpture, monument if you want, telling the story about IOC placed in a park.”
Kim Herforth Nielsen (b. 1954) is the Founder and Creative Director at 3XN Architects. The studio was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 1986 by architects Kim Herforth Nielsen, Lars Frank Nielsen and Hans Peter Svendler Nielsen. The practice had its international breakthrough in the late 1990s with the Danish Embassy in Berlin and the Muziekgebouw Concert Hall in Amsterdam. Among other high profiled projects are Segerstedthuset in Uppsala, Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, Odenplan Station in Stockholm as well as Royal Arena, Ørestad College and The Blue Planet, all in Copenhagen. 3XN have won several prestigious awards including LEAF Award (2006), RIBA European Award (2005 and 2011) and RIBA International Award (2009). For more see: 3xn.com
Kim Herforth Nielsen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland in June 2019. With friendly support from 3XN (stills) and the International Olympic Committee (animations and parts of the footage).
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2019
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beautiful building
interesting program .. I also like the sinuous curves of the facade, the bermed? section
he talked about the slats/fins in the exterior facade obviating cooling costs .. then the roof -- I was surprised he did not mention the photovoltaics
Those stairs 🙌 !! Really nice an quality content👌
What does the IOC do? Like why do they exist other than to choose the cities to host and take that city’s money?
According to their website, the organization supports athletes (and sports in general?) around the world to the tune of about USD 3.4 million per day. While there are many many reasons why hosting the Olympics in their current format is not sustainable for non-authoritarian countries, the guiding principle of the organization is to promote sports as a means to achieving peace between people. By playing a common sport, and following established rules that both sides have agreed to, the competition field becomes the international stage. Opposing teams can appreciate the effort their adversaries put into training for the match. By extension, they can see how similar their struggles are to those of their opponents and identify their shared humanity. (NB: systematic advantages of more developed countries are particularly visible these days in team sports which could be used to argue that sports cannot be fair when some countries have far fewer training resources than their well-off opponents...)
Transparency? Peace?
Ableist?
Ismiss laav azzeka i Messi!?
Здание для компании для которой понты дороже денег. А так там на месте этих колец пропадает много квадратных метров, куда можно напихать шавух, салонов с чехлами для телефонов и прочего говна)))
Every single new building looks exactly the same. It is terribly boring.