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Copenhill TURNING A POWER PLANT INTO THE BEDROCK FOR SOCIAL LIFE
Size: Waste-to-energy plant: 41,000m2 Ski slope: 9,000m2 Green roof: 10,000m2 Nature Park: 3,000m2 Completed: 2019 Name: Copenhill / Amager Bakke Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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he iconic waste-to-energy plant ‘Copenhill’ has officially opened to the public in Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by BIG Bjarke Ingels Group and landscape architecture firm SLA, the project – also known as ‘Amager Bakke’ – is a waste-to-energy plant with an urban recreation centre comprising a lush nature park, ski slope, hiking trail, the world’s tallest climbing wall as well as an environmental education hub. Copenhill is a 41,000m2 waste-to-energy plant that turns social infrastructure into an architectural landmark with new nature activities and high biodiversity. BIG won the international competition in 2010, broke ground in 2013, and has been developed in collaboration with SLA, AKT, Dr. Lüchinger+Mayer, Man Made Land, MOE, Rambøll, Realities:United and Topotek 1. "We are very proud to have built the most energy efficient waste-to-energy plant in the world. At the same time the plant delivers the best environmental performance with hardly any environmental emissions enameling us to have neighbours only 200 metres away and to be located less than two kilometres from the Queen's residence. Last but not least, we have succeeded in building the safest waste-to-energy plant so that local citizens and guests from all over the world can ski on the roof," says Jacob Simonsen, managing director of ARC.
Photography by Rasmus Hjortshøj
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Copenhill is conceived as a public infrastructure with intended social side-effects from day one. Replacing the adjacent 50-year-old Amager Ressourcecenter (ARC), Copenhill’s new waste incinerating facilities integrate the latest
