Amager Bakke is almost finished the energy waste conversion plant in Copenhagen designed by BIG. The deck was designed as an artificial ski slope. The images show the preparations and the first tests of this artificial ski slope.
The consequences of climate change being more evident each year, does this kind of references and constructions make sense? A ski slope in the Persian Gulf is as absurd as a ski slope at sea level of Denmark.

The ecological footprint that will produce the maintenance of this infrastructure, blurs the good intentions and cutting-edge technology applied to the recycling of waste that is made in the recycling center.

Architecture, not only must be sustainable in the construction of buildings, it is architecture, and not only construction, because it must be able to be shown as an example. Climate change has stopped accepting jokes or easy jokes, "we need that in addition to being sustainable we look like it", and this absurd icon is not.
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Bjarke Ingels (born in Copenhagen, in 1974) studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ​​obtaining his degree as an architect in 1998. He is the founder of the BIG architecture studio - (Bjarke Ingels Group), a studio founded in 2005, after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 with his former partner Julien de Smedt, whom he met while working at the prestigious OMA studio in Rotterdam.

Bjarke has designed and completed award-winning buildings worldwide, and currently, his studio is based with venues in Copenhagen and New York. His projects include The Mountain, a residential complex in Copenhagen, and the innovative Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore.

With the PLOT study, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and with BIG he has received numerous awards such as the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. Other prizes are the Culture Prize of the Crown Prince of Denmark in 2011; Along with his architectural practice, Bjarke has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen.

In 2018, Bjarke received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog granted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. He is a frequent public speaker and continues to give lectures at places such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street or the World Economic Forum. In 2018, Bjarke was appointed Chief Architectural Advisor by WeWork to advise and develop the design vision and language of the company for buildings, campuses and neighborhoods around the world.

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Published on: March 16, 2019
Cite: "Why a ski slope on the roof of Amager Bakke building? by BIG" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/why-a-ski-slope-roof-amager-bakke-building-big> ISSN 1139-6415
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