‘Copenhill is a blatant architectural expression of something that would otherwise have remained invisible: that it is the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world. As a power plant, Copenhill is so clean that we have been able to turn its building mass into the bedrock of the soc...
000 homes. The necessities of the power plant to complete this task, from ventilation shafts to air-intakes, help create the varied topography of a mountain; a man-made landscape created in the encounter
In the industrial neighborhood of Amager, CopenHill (known to locals as Amager Bakke) is the world's first combination re-usable energy power plant and fully functioning ski slope. Its boxy silver exterior, lean gray smoke-billowing towers, and blinking red lights are viewable from throughout Co...
The necessities of the power plant to complete this task, from ventilation shafts to air-intakes, help create the varied topography of a mountain; a man-made landscape created in the encounter between the needs from below and the desires from above. Ten floors of administrative space are ...
Designed by BIG, CopenHill is a 41,000m2 waste-to-energy plant with a 10,000m2 greenroof ski slope hiking trail with 7000 bushes & 300 trees.