STATUS
IDEA
CLIENT
Bach Group
TYPOLOGY
Work, Residential
SIZE M2/FT2
124.000 / 1,334,724
SHARE
The Battery, a 124,000 m2 architectural interpretation of an Alpine landscape in the center of Copenhagen, seeks to weave together the three currently disparate neighborhoods into one overlapping urban activity center, offering apartments, offices, shopping, child care provision, sports facilities, cultural institutions, a hotel and a mosque.
The Battery consists of four interconnected spaces, interpreting known landscape motives: the view, the park, the promenade, and the garden. At the same time the site is connecting to the adjacent neighborhoods through the green bike route throughout the area – a diverse and open program that makes it possible to meet future needs.
The Battery’s fusion of architecture and landscape makes up a unique complex that welcomes activity and involvement across age, ethnicity and social status. The development is characterized by a terraced plinth that can be divided into two activities: the plinth either opens towards the streets through large public foyers inviting the pedestrians to wander into and through a bazaar like retail experience or the plinth’s landscaped terraces offer pedestrians to walk over and across the site to connect the diverse neighborhoods surround The Battery. A large promenade along the southern edge of the site offers public functions, retail shops, benches, and landscaping.
“This project is all about integration - the functional integration of all aspects of city life into a unified environment, the urban integration of the three neighborhoods, the cultural integration of Islamic and Danish culture, by incorporating the first mosque ever built in Denmark and finally the integration of landscape and architecture.”
Bjarke Ingels Jakob Lange Brian Yang Catherine Huang Nanna Gyldholm Møller João Albuquerque
COLLABORATORS
Grontmij Carl Bro
PK3
Hasløv & Kjærsgaard
