In Denmark, You Can Ski On A 450 Meter Long Roof Of A Waste Incinerator

Modern architecture has many forms and the creativity of Scandinavian architects knows no bounds. The proof is a building called Amager Bakke, also known as Amager Slope or Copenhil in Copenhagen, which serves as a waste incinerator.

However, the public admires the building from the BIG Architects studio primarily thanks to the 450-meter slope with an artificial surface, which is located on the roof. It is currently the most modern and ecological incinerator in all of Denmark. Construction costs rose to approximately 620 million euros.

The building serves as a place where the whole family can spend their time. According to the architects' designs, it is built in the shape of a slope, and visitors can try various sports activities, including skiing on an artificial surface, climbing on an 85-meter-high wall, cycling or hiking on maintained trails.

The surface of the roof is specially prepared and grass and trees grow on it. With its height, the waste incinerator became one of the tallest buildings in Copenhagen. The Amager Bakke functional facade shell consists of a modular facade of the administrative part, where there are high demands on thermal and acoustic parameters, of a modular facade of the operational part of the tipping hall waterproof facade shell. The entire surface is covered by a second visible layer of aluminum cassettes.

You can get a better picture of this architectural gem thanks to the gallery by Filip Hucko from Beacon Architecture Studio, who found a second home in Copenhagen.