Film: The Infinite Happiness | Architecture Now [Video]

As part of the Documentary Edge International Film Festival, The Infinite Happiness focuses on the giant 8 House, built by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in the suburbs of Copenhagen, which was selected in 2011 as the World’s Best Residential Building. The film takes us to the heart of one of the contemporary housing developments considered to be a new model of success.

As in a Lego game, the film builds up a collection of life stories all interconnected by people’s personal relationships to the building. Conceived as a personal video diary, the film draws the lines of a human map which allows the viewer to discover the building through an inner and intimate point of view. It questions architecture’s ability to create collective happiness, while showing the surprising results of this new type of social model of the 21st century.