Real LEGO House Being Built!
By Penny on Aug 25, 2014
Looking for a new home? The beginning stages of the much anticipated LEGO House, by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) finally started last week (you can't live there though...).
In accordance with all of BIG’s creative designs, LEGO House will be a 75-foot-tall structure built out of stacked rectangular volumes that look like giant… *wait for it*... LEGO bricks! Though this comes as no surprise, the renderings truly surpass our expectations. If you’re excited just looking at them, you may want to sit down before reading about the inside.
After breaking ground, six LEGO foundation bricks with the inscriptions, “imagination”, “creativity”, “fun”, “learning”, “carrying”, and “quality”- the company’s values - were ceremoniously laid down. The 130,000 square foot home is located at The LEGO Group’s birthplace in the Danish city of Billund and will be open to visitors from all around the world. Set for completion in 2016, it is estimated that some 250,000 people will visit the “experience centre” annually.
“For me the LEGO brick embodies the notion of systematic creativity - that the rigour and rationality of the LEGO brick allows children of all ages infinite possibilities to create their own worlds and to inhabit them through play,” said Bjarke Ingels, the Founding Partner of BIG. “We have been inspired by the modularity of the LEGO brick to create the LEGO House. It will appear like a cloud of interlocking LEGO bricks that form spaces for exploration and exhibition for its visitors within. On the outside the pile of bricks form the roof of a new covered square as well as a mountain of interconnected terraces and playgrounds.”
Visitors can enjoy this building not only visually, but are encouraged to discover the exhibits within and get acquainted with the many interactive displays and installations throughout. Aside from mind-blowing, hands-on exhibits, the LEGO House will offer its guests a cafe, accessible roof terraces from which visitors can pause and take photos of the beautiful Dutch background.
Indulge the inner child in you, visit the LEGO House in a couple years!
All images via designboom.com
