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Earlier this year, Darwin Otero Ingels, the son of Bjarke Ingels and Rut Otero, said his first word: agua, or “water” in his mother’s native Spanish. That he should have H2O on the brain is no surprise. For much of his existence, this intrepid toddler, now almost two, has dropped anchor in Copenhagen’s harbor, cohabitating on a houseboat with his two architect parents. Imagine, among your earliest experiences, the sight of ducks swimming past porthole windows, the thrill of friends arriving by kayak, and the constant, calming churn of the tides—that’s just an average day for young Darwin.
Bjarke Ingels, founder of the international architecture firm BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group, smiles through a skylight on the houseboat that he shares with his young family, Spanish architect Rut Otero and their son, Darwin.
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The converted Norwegian ferry ship, originally named Bukken-Bruse, or “billy goat gruff,” is docked in Copenhagen’s historic harbor; bench by Hay.
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Ingels and Otero pose on the stairs, which were painted a traditional nautical orange; the calligraphic work is by Tomoko Kawao,
and the Jamen Percy photograph shows The Orb, BIG’s 2018 installation at Burning Man.
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Ingels’s work, if at times hard to characterize by style, has long been defined by constraints—the preexisting conditions that steer his designs toward sophisticated, often shipshape solutions. “It is a boat, so it wants to be symmetrical,” he notes matter-of-factly. “Part of the project was restoring that symmetry along both axes.” At each end of the main deck (what was essentially an open driveway for cars) they installed sliding window walls, creating a loftlike living space with terraces painted the color of the water. On the upper level, meanwhile, they took their cues from the two large chimney stacks and navigation bridges, constructing a glass-enclosed pavilion for the main bedroom suite among the original structures. Above it, a rooftop terrace affords 360-degree views. And below deck, they transformed the hull into a futuristic playroom for all ages, stripping away additions to reveal streamlined curves, adding porthole windows and
a circular skylight, and treating the walls, floors, and ceiling as a kind of continuous white surface.
A brightly painted wet room below deck; sink by Duravit and fixtures by Vola.
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Their skylit, Hinoki-wood shower; fixtures by Vola.
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“We were given the gift of forms,” Ingels says, adding that he might never have come up with the design in isolation. “It’s a creative shift, shaped by different forces.” And while they took care to preserve the boat’s nautical quirks—among them the two captain’s cabins, with steering wheels for Darwin’s amusement—they have also incorporated mementos from their frequent peregrinations. (Travel is a major source of inspiration for both Ingels and Otero, whose namesake fashion line blends cultural references.) The couple’s bath, for instance, features a hinoki cypress soaking tub, sink, and shower that were inspired by their recent trip to Japan’s famous ryokans. And they found the playroom’s Technicolor beanbags and pillows (handwoven by South African artisans out of scraps of T-shirt fabric) during a 2017 visit to Cape Town for the opening of the Thomas Heatherwick–designed Zeitz MOCAA. These touches are joined by an array of Ingels’s own designs, from the living room’s KiBiSi sofas to the recurring Artemide lights.
In the open kitchen, oak cabinetry complements a copper-nickel island; the pendant lamps are BIG designs for Artemide, the dining table is by Luca Cipelletti, the fiberglass Eames chairs are by Vitra, and the stools are by Københavns Møbelsnedkeri. Copenhill, BIG’s waste-to-energy treatment center, appears in the distance.
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In ways big and small, the ship has been a chance for Ingels, who has long been a proponent of floating housing, to practice what he preaches. “It is the most resilient architecture,” he muses. “As sea levels rise, so will houseboats.” In addition to Urban Rigger, a system of standardized containers that helped address Copenhagen’s student-housing shortage, he has envisioned entire communities at sea. His Oceanix City concept proposes sustainable, modular structures for 10,000 people. On land, meanwhile, current projects such as The Big U (a protective coastal system for Lower Manhattan) and The Islais Hyper-Creek (a master plan for the southeast shoreline of San Francisco) address the realities of climate change.
Urban Rigger, BIG’s 2016 floating student-housing complex.
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