Building With Ski Slope On Roof

Elevation model.

Building with ski slope on roof.

Overall the new building situated on the hillside was designed so that it blends into the terrain. Amager bakke a first of its kind public utility topped with an artificial mountain resort is the danish capital s latest landmark. The ski surface incidentally is an artificial plastic material not snow. Thus some storeys disappear below ground and provide the skiers with more space.

Access to the ski slope is provided by an elevator adjacent to the smoke stack. We ramboll to accommodate the ski slope did have to stack the building higher to get the right slope for a 300 meter ski run. A ski slope on the roof copenhagen denmark the new waste to energy power plant created on the island of amager officially opened in october 2019 is an example of copenhagen s sustainability based urban policies environmental focus and war on climate change that culminate in its aim to become the first zero carbon city in the world by 2025. Copenhill s ski slope measures 400 metres and runs from the top of the 90 metre high building to its base with a 180 degree turn halfway down the piste.

A ski slope is built on the roof of the new waste management centre amager resource center in copenhagen niels christian vilmann ritzau scanpix afp via getty details of the power plant ski slope hybrid were first teased in 2010 and it reportedly cost 550m 600m. A ski slope roofed office will not be built because it would overshadow neighbouring houses. The office building would have replaced a plumber s merchants on stockmore street off the cowley road. The slope starts on top of the roof and circles around the building.

The slopes are green at copenhagen s first ski hill. Due to the high temperatures and pressure levels reached in the boilers and scrubbers the biggest risk to the structure of waste to energy plants is to have the roof quite literally pop. We also had to allow for a higher live load factor on the roof for the ski slope which can accommodate 1 500 people. The roof of the factory is turned into an artificial ski slope.

For this reason several roof slabs for example in the ski slope area were formed at a 25 angle. The mevaflex slab formwork used was supported by eumax props.