AMAGER BAKKE | DHRUV UMRIGAR | 52 | ELE-IV (A.J&C) | IX-B | 2016-17

Dhruv Umrigar 17 August 2020

AMAGER BAKKE

Copenhill Power Plant

CopenHill, otherwise called Amager Bakke, waste-to-vitality plant finished off with a ski incline, climbing trail and climbing divider, exemplifying the idea of hedonistic sustainability. Amager Bakke is a 41,000m2 waste-to-vitality plant with an urban amusement community and ecological training centre point, transforming social framework into a design milestone.

Designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and landscape architecture firm SLA - Stig Lennart Andersson, the project has been conceived as a piece of public infrastructure with ‘intended social side-effects’. The possibility that would become Amager Bakke really goes back to 2002, preceding BIG, when Bjarke Ingels' firm passed by the name of PLOT. What they proposed was to embed an open urban space in the densest zone of Copenhagen, where land is generally constrained, by setting a ski-incline geology over the biggest industry establishment in the city. The thought didn't work out as expected, not-with-standing winning the opposition, however it was the primary seed of the thought for the Amager Bakke we see today. Quick forward very nearly 10 years, and it was reported in 2011 that BIG had won the universal structure rivalry for Copenhagen's waste-to-vitality plant with AKT, Topotek 1, Man Made Land, and Realities:United.