14 June | CONTEMPORARY ARCHI: The Infinite Happiness

Film: Infinite Happiness

2010, Dir. Louise Lemoine, Ila Bêka, 85 mins, English.

Conceived as a personal video diary, The Infinite happiness is an architectural experience. The film takes us to the heart of one of the contemporary housing development considered to be a new model of success.

Inhabiting the giant “8 House” built by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine recount their subjective experience of living inside this experiment of vertical village, elected in 2011 « World best residential building ».

As a Lego game, the film builds up a collection of life stories all interconnected by their personal relation to the building. The film draws the lines of a human map which allows the viewer to discover the building throu-gh an inner and intimate point of view and questions the architecture’s ability to create collective happiness showing the surprising results of this new type of social model of the 21rst century.

Print and image courtesy of Bêka & Lemoine

Trailer HERE

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Guest Speaker: Qianyi Lim

Qianyi is a Co-director of SIBLING, a multidisciplinary design studio that is passionate about engaging society with good architecture and design through the production of new and unexpected spatial outcomes.

Within the studio, Qianyi is working on a series of adaptive reuse projects within Kuala Lumpur; and the landscape and playgrounds for a bilingual early learning centre in Sydney. Locally in Melbourne, her focus is on the development of student and public space projects for Monash University and RMIT; where she is also a tutor in architectural design.

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Booking

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