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From Turbines to Reefs: How Ørsted''s Coral Projects

More than 500 million people worldwide rely on coral reefs for employment opportunities, food, and protection from coastal threats. The ridges

Biosphere | Bjarke Ingels Group

Bjarke Ingels - Founder & creative director, BIG “We designed our addition to the Treehotel - the Biosphere - to create a unique experience for hotel guests, which takes inspiration from the qualities

Aeroleaf

The solar petal is designed to be elegant and calculated to increase a little bit the speed of wind (Venturi effect) and permits a best production of energy from the

Careers | Bjarke Ingels Group

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Coral reef

As the island and ocean floor subside, coral growth builds a fringing reef, often including a shallow lagoon between the land and the main reef. As the

People | Bjarke Ingels Group

Meet the team at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Explore our partners, architects, and specialists shaping the future of architecture and design.

WeGrow NYC | Bjarke Ingels Group

WeGrow''s facilitates a transformative and holistic approach to learning that''s less prescriptive and more intuitive. A field of super-elliptic objects forms a 10,000 sq ft learning landscape that''s dense and

BIG HQ | Bjarke Ingels Group

BIG HQ — The stacking of large concrete elements creates a 3D pattern of transparent and opaque façade partitions, that enable a spatially complex and connected office space - a BIG LEAP project,

Hydrodynamics of Coral Reef Systems | Springer Nature Link

Unlike most coasts systems, the spectrum of significant topographic complexity in reefs appears almost continuous from scales of hundreds of meters down to millimeters.

The Heights School | Bjarke Ingels Group

The Heights building is situated within a compact urban site bounded by roads on three sides and a portion of Rosslyn Highlands Park. Conceived as a stack of five rectangular floorplates that rotate

The Wind Tree silently generates electricity from gentle

A small gust of wind propels the leaves into motion and – voilà – the Wind Tree begins providing an environmentally friendly form of energy. The

CityWave | Bjarke Ingels Group

CityWave''s two office buildings are connected by a new public park and a sweeping 140-m-long roof clad entirely in photovoltaic tiles – one of the largest

Coralline Algae: The Unsung Architects of Coral Reefs

These crusts grow slowly—often just 0.4 to 1.2 inches (10 to 30 mm) per year—and depend on grazing fish to clear them of rapidly growing fleshy seaweeds, which

Two-dimensional modelling of wave dynamics and wave forces on

In the present study, local wind-wave generation on the reef is ignored, and the two-dimensional wave model is solely forced by incoming swell waves at its boundaries.

Efficient Electricity Generator Inspired by Leaf

When the leaves sway in the wind, the small strips release an electrical charge. Although the leaves are small, together they generate a sizeable amount of energy.

Coral Fan – Minecraft Wiki

Coral fans and dead coral fans‌ [Bedrock Edition only] naturally generate in coral reef structures. When bone meal is used in warm ocean biomes, it has a chance

Google Bay View | Bjarke Ingels Group

Google Bay View is Google''s first-ever ground-up campus with the mission to operate on carbon-free energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week by 2030. The buildi

The Plus | Bjarke Ingels Group

Designed for furniture manufacturer Vestre, The Plus is a factory, visitor center, and 300-acre park located in Magnor, Norway near Vestre’s HQ and steel