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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. LOOP CITY PROJECT in Copenhagen & Malmo by BIG ArchitectFebruary 22nd, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
The industrial areas in the Copenhagen suburbs are next in line for urban development. A new light rail is planned to interconnect 20 development zones with a total area of 11 Km2, the size of the entire inner city. We are proposing to turn the light rail line into a spine of dense urbanity with a series of peaks at the stations. By combing the rail with strategies for energy exchange, waste management, water treatment and electric car stations, the infrastructure could become the base for a new sustainable ring of development around Copenhagen, and an artery of true urbanity pumping life into the heart of the suburbs. At certain points the rail becomes a building itself almost like a Roman aqueduct passing through the suburbs, at other points it forms small pockets of urbanity around the stations.
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We propose to upgrade the planned light rail by extending it to form a regional ring around Oresund connecting similar development areas, and creating a new 50 year development perspective for a cross border region between Sweden and Denmark. Where the Finger Plan from 1947 was about connectivity from suburb to center the Loop City is linking a string of highly differentiated urban nodes, universities and working spaces in a center-less metropolitan region around a blue void. This ring, comparable in size to the San Francisco Bay area, has enough development areas to contain the growth of the region the next 50 years, and could become a model for a both sustainable, dense and super recreational development of the region.  Brondby Brondby Stadion - THE SPORTS ACROPOLIS CREDITS BIG Partners in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok Pedersen Project Leader: Søren Martinussen Team: Daniel Kidd, Kuba Snopek, Daniel Selensky, Armor Gutiérrez Rivas, Riccardo Mariano, Ryohei Koike, Lucian Racovitan, Xing Xiong www.big.dk
 Gladsaxe Gladsaxe Erhvervskvarter - THE EDUCATION CITY TOM NIELSEN Tom Nielsen, Architect, Ph.D., Associate Professor Aarhus School of Architecture
 Herlev Herlev Hospital - THE HEALTH CENTER RED ASSOCIATES Partner in Charge: Christian Madsbjerg Project Manager: Pranav Yadav Team: Paula Castillo, Autumn Saunders Contributors: Martin Gronemann, Malene Glintborg Justesen, Mads Holme, Mark Kirby, Mikkel Krenchel, Diane Mehta, Eliot Salandy-Brown, Anders Søndergaard, Frederick Wiedemann www.redassociates.com
 Hvidovre Avedore Holme - THE INDUSTRIAL LEISURE PARK ARUP Project Director/Leader: Alejandro Gutierrez, Architect – Associate Director Project Manager: Camilla Bevilacqua, Building Engineer Team: Ramon Rodriguez, Engineer – Associate Director : Energy Specialist Xavier Garcia, Engineer – Consultant : Energy Specialist Camilla Bevilacqua, Building Engineer : Energy Specialist Andrew Dunwoody, Senior Environmental Scientist : Waste Specialist Phil Higgins, Civil Engineer – Associate: Water Specialist www.arup.com
 Ishoj og Vallensbaek Vejleaaen - THE RIVER DELTA REALDANIA Executive Director: Hans Peter Svendler Project Leader: Astrid Bruus Thomsen
 Loop City arial photo - ALL SITES
ADVISORY BOARD Gøsta Knudsen, City architect, Århus Municipality Gertrud Jørgensen, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Head of Department of Urban and Landscape Studies Svend Erik Rolandsen, Project director, Planning, development and traffic, COWI A/S
 LOOP CITY - 10 rings of the oresund region
RINGBY – LETBANESAMARBEJDET Chairman: Bo Rasmussen, Municipality director, Albertslund Municipality Project Leader: Marianne Bendixen Politicians and officials from the 10 municipalities
 Roedovre og Glostrup Vestforbraendingen og Ejby Erhvervskvarter - THE ENERGY PARK DONG ENERGY Charles Nielsen, Director R&D. B.Sc.M.Eng., B.Com
 THE LOOP AND THE HAND EXHIBITION AT VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2010 BIG KOLLISION CAVI TEIS DRAIBY (TEIS.NET) 3D: GLESSNER GROUP MODEL: ARKITEKTURMINISTERIET
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