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are 80 unique types of apartments in the complexes, and they are
adaptable to individual needs. In January 2006, after closing PLOT,
Ingels established the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), which grew to four
hundred employees by 2016. The mountain dwellings were the first
project for BIG, and they are located in the same site across the street
from the VM House that he completed in 2005. Since Denmark is a flat
landscape, he designed the building like a mountain which combined
110,000 sq ft of housing and 220,000 sq ft of parking space.
Ingels published his first book, Yes Is More: An Archicomic on
Architecture Evolution, which included thirty-five projects from his
practice between 1999 and 2010. It is designed in the form of a comic
book talking about how he came up with designs, how they relate to his
theories, and what he learned through his projects. After several years,
his second book, Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation,
was published. It contains fifty-five case studies of his practices,
including well-known projects such as West 57, the 8 House, Powder
Plant (Copenhill), and so on. He also spoke at TED events a couple
times and presented his vision and mission, including Pragmatic
Utopianism and Hedonistic Sustainability. Throughout those dynamic
and challenging years, Ingels won many competitions and completed
projects domestically and internationally and started becoming a well-
known architect in the world.