Superkilen - collage and architecture

Above: Plan + Figure/Field Study
Below: Plan of Green Space with Entries
Bottom: Abstract Plan of Urban Living Space
Urban Living Room
Exercise and Games
SUPERKILEN URBAN PARK
Big - 2012
Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Landscape
Afternoon . 25 May 2013
Adam Anzivino, Julia Badorrek, Josh Kieb
SUPERKILEN MASTERPLAN :: BJARKE INGELS :: 2012
Client: Copenhagen Municipality Realdania
Collaborators: Topotek1, Superflex, Help Communication, Lemming
& Eriksson
Size: 3.3 Ha
Location: Copenhagen, DK
Designed for 60 cultures, the surrounding, ethnically
diverse neighborhood, and thousands of visitors,
Superkilen is an active, urban park, peppered with
signs, symbols and objects from around the globe.
The project breaks Scandinavian homogeny to
include a range of interactive activities reflective of
different cultures.
“This project would have to become a vehicle
for integration, rather than an aesthetic exercise
in Danish design. We decided to approach this
project as an exercise in extreme public participation.”
–Bjarke Ingels
Integrated public participation was a driving
force from the start of the project. Listening to and
reading what the local neighborhood wanted gave
the firm working material to appropriately design
what became one of the most cohesive and truest
cultural samples of the real Copenhagen.
The project is not only a formal exercise,
but also one of functional design. Benches, palm
trees, manhole covers, and sewage drains were all
appropriated the same amount of thoughtfulness,
and each reflects the diverse culture and the firm’s
philosophy.
“BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful
analysis of how contemporary life constantly
evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence
from multicultural exchange, global economical
flows and communication technologies that
all together require new ways of architectural and
urban organization.”
The park is divided into three zones of exercise and
games, an urban living room, and a rolling green
space.
1 Unique Sectional Condition
2 BIG - Supporting Diagram Series
3 BIG - Supporting Diagram Series
4 Site Section
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