Sandra Winn
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Cliff housing, a once-prominent form of shelter, may be long gone, but its architectural legacy has been brought back to life with ‘Mountain Dwellings,’ an apartment project by the BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group from Copenhagen, Denmark. It should be of no surprise that BIG won this year’s World Architecture Festival in the area of housing. Their collective architectural genius created ‘Mountain Dwellings’ apartments to save space, offer picturesque views of above and below and come complete with areas for roof gardening. Photo Credits: 6-7  The Mountain Dwellings appear as a suburban neighbourhood of garden homes, floating over a 10-storey building - suburban living with urban density. The roof gardens consist of a terrace and a garden with plants changing character according to the changing seasons. The building has a huge watering system which maintains the roof gardens. The only thing that separates the apartment and the garden is a glass façade with sliding doors to provide light and fresh air.
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