The customer is the Danish company Amagerforbraending, which builds waste incineration plants operating on the CHP principle. Waste is incinerated in an environmentally friendly manner (combustion gases are purified until they can be safely released into the atmosphere and the remaining slag is sent by sea to storage in Norway), generating electricity and heating water to heat residential buildings.
The new plant will be located in an "intermediate" space - between the industrial zone and the residential area, between land and sea - in a place not popular among Copenhagen residents. Therefore, the architects decided to combine it with a sports attraction - a ski slope. To do this, they included the factory chimney in the total volume of the building, resulting in a flat slab of a large area (32,000 m2) - a transition from the chimney level to the ground level. There will be created an imitating natural landscape with three tracks with a total length of more than 1500 m.
Visitors can go upstairs by an elevator, the shaft of which will pass next to the pipe; its glazed openings will face the inside of the plant, which will allow observing the process of waste processing; also for these purposes there are two oval openings in the floors.
For even greater educational and educational efficiency of the plant, the architects equipped the chimney with a special system that releases a smoke ring as soon as another ton of slag comes out of the bowels of the plant - this will remind Copenhagen residents of the consequences of uncontrolled consumption. At night, the ring will be illuminated with a laser.
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