Unsightly Incinerator Makes A Great Ski Slope In Copenhagen

This article titled “Bjarke Ingels designs incinerator that doubles as ski slope in Copenhagen” was written by Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen, for The Guardian on Sunday 3rd July 2011 17.54 UTC

How do you turn a 100-metre-tall incinerator in the heart of Copenhagen into a social and cultural hub? By building a ski slope on the roof, of course.

The unlikely combination of green energy and alpine sport was the winning bid in a competition to design a new waste-to-energy plant which aims to be one of the cleanest in the world when it opens in 2016. For the winning architect, Bjarke Ingels, it made perfect sense to inject a bit of fun into the proceedings.

“When you spend 3.5bn kroner [£424m] creating an energy plant in the middle of Copenhagen you make sure it doesn’t become an ugly box that the neighbours will protest against and clutters the cityscape,” he said.

“You have to make sure it becomes a public park, an attraction. And when the kids come to go skiing on top of the plant they will probably be curious to find out what’s going on inside the mountain.”

Ingels grew up wanting to become a graphic novelist, but the 36-year-old Dane is now hailed as one of the most exciting architects of his generation.

For the 2010 Shanghai Expo he gave visitors a sense of sustainable life in Copenhagen by moving the city’s most famous landmark, the Little Mermaid statue, to China, complete with her own pool of water from the city’s harbour. Visitors on bikes viewed it from spiralling cycle lanes inside the Danish pavilion.

“I work with the idea of hedonistic sustainability, which is sustainability that improves the quality of life and human enjoyment,” said Ingels. “The fact that Copenhagen is so clean you can actually jump in the harbour [water] in the city centre is almost a miracle. The city is sustainable but doesn’t become synonymous with making lots of sacrifices.

“People are willing to make sacrifices from time to time but they are not going to stop driving their kids to football. People don’t drive cars because they want to pollute; they drive cars because they want to visit their friends. It’s not about changing our behaviour – it’s about designing our society in a smarter way. For example instead of dumping our waste we start to see it is a resource – one tonne of waste almost equates to two barrels of oil.

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