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27 images Created 19 Nov 2019

CopenHill Urban Mountain

Danmark is characterized by its flat landscape and until now people had to travel abroad to go skiing.

With the opening of CopenHill, it is now possible to go skiing daily in Copenhagen and you do it on the top of its new waste-to-energy plant. While you ski, tons of garbage are being incinerated to produce clean energy and heat for 30.000 of households, which is in line with the aim of becoming the first carbon neutral capital by 2025.

Bjarke Ingels, the architect behind this idea, inaugurated the urban mountain in October 2019 after almost a decade in the making. Locals and tourists came to glide down the 400m green slope while enjoying a breath-taking view of Copenhagen skyline and across the see as far as to Sweden. Many onlookers also visited Copenhagen’s new landmark to see slalom competitions, freestyle, uphill cycling, etc.

CopenHill Urban Mountain also has a free access hiking trail and recently hosts the world highest urban climbing wall of 80m.

The pictures are part of the assignment for CopenHill in the framework of the opening of the site in October 2019.
For more detailed photographs of the building, you can have a look at the online archive of The Library of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
https://www.arkitekturbilleder.dk/bygning/amager-bakke/
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  • CopenHill located on the Amager Island in Copenhagen. Seen from Krudtløbsvej street.
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  • Official inauguration by the mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen, the Architect Bjarke Ingels among the official guests.
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  • Members of the Danish National Ski Team take their first ride down.
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  • Kristian Ghedina, former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy, attends the inauguration to test the ski slope.
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  • CopenHill architect Bjarke Ingels rises up using the T-Bar lift.
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  • Senior skier, Casper Dyrbye from the Danish National Alpin team and winner of the CopenHill slalom contest.
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  • Freestyle exhibition on the lower ski slope.
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  • View on the ski slope made of neveplast, a synthetic turf that is slippery like snow.
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  • A local skier glides down a slope through a huge smoke cloud proceeding from the waste to energy incinerator.
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  • A couple listen to their ski instructor on the lower ski slope.
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  • A ski instructor rises up using the T-Bar lift with Copenhagen harbour in the background.
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  • T-bar ski drag lift and stairs which link the upper and down part of the building.
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  • View at the top of CopenHill with the Øresund Bridge which links Denmark to Sweden in the background.
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  • Young people use the incinerator facade as seats to view a freestyle competition.
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  • A family walking on the hiking trail.
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  • A young girl stands on the stairway on the upper part of the urban mountain and views over Copenhagen skyline.
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  • View on the rooftop terrasse over the sea as far as to Sweden. Wind Turbines dot the waters.
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  • People walks on the upper trail of CopenHill with the incinerator chimney in the background.
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  • Detail of the architecture of CopenHill wall, designed by Bjarke Ingels, which measure up to 80m and will host the hightest artificial climbing wall in the world.
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