Billund car park covered with roads from Lego play sets
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has designed the facades of a car park for Lego in Billund, Denmark, which features a road layout based on the toy company's City road plates.
The facades, created by CEBRA, cover a five-storey car park designed by architecture studio Ravn Arkitektur, which will be used by people working in the Lego offices and visiting the nearby Legoland.
The design used across the facades is directly based on Lego's City road plates, which were originally created in 1977 and are still being sold by the company.
CEBRA chose to base the design on the city plates after discussions with Kirkbi ? Lego's holding company ? to find a visual identity that tied into a Lego product.
"We had a really good and open design process with the client, and we suggested nearly 40 different ideas to discuss," explained CEBRA founding partner Mikkel Frost. "All the ideas revolved around the LEGO bricks or products. The scope was to somehow reflect the company, their identity and their amazing inventions," he told Dezeen.
The entire facade is clad in aluminium panels that are directly upscaled from the original road plates. The patterns across the facades are made up from nine different section types.
"First of all, they are clearly a LEGO product while at the same time they have to do with traffic and driving," said Frost.
"But they also turn out to be extremely flexible in terms of designing a versatile and interesting facade pa...
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