Social side-effects

Due to its loca­tion on the indus­trial water­front of Amager, where raw indus­trial faci­li­ties have become the site for extreme sports from wake­boar­ding to go-kart racing, the new power plant adds skiing, hiking and rock clim­bing to thrill seekers’ wish lists.

Walking on waste

Mean­while, the 10,000m² green roof addresses the chal­len­ging micro-climate of an 85m high park, rewil­ding a biodi­verse land­scape while absor­bing heat, remo­ving air parti­cu­lates and mini­mi­zing storm­water runoff.

Après-ski at the waste-to-energy plant

Rather than consider ARC as an isolated archi­tec­tural object, the buil­ding enve­lope is conceived as an oppor­tu­nity for the local context while forming a desti­na­tion and a reflec­tion on the progres­sive vision of the company.

CopenHill’s conti­nuous façade comprises 1.2m tall and 3.3m wide aluminum bricks stacked like gigantic bricks over­lap­ping with each other. In-between, glazed windows allow daylight to reach deep inside the faci­lity, while larger openings on the southwest façade illu­mi­nate work­sta­tions on the admi­nis­tra­tive floors.

On the longest vertical façade, an 85m clim­bing wall is installed to be the tallest arti­fi­cial clim­bing wall in the world for new world records to be broken with views inside the factory. At the bottom of the ski slope, a 600m² après-ski bar welcomes locals and visi­tors to wind down once the boots are off. Form­erly a piece of infra­struc­ture in an indus­trial zone, CopenHill becomes the new desti­na­tion for fami­lies, friends and cele­bra­tion, one that is econo­mic­ally, envi­ron­men­tally and soci­ally profi­table.