After seeing the houses in the Danish capital, I believe in fairy tales again

After suspending flights for nearly eight months, Scandinavian Airlines finally announced that it will resume direct flights from Copenhagen to Shanghai on September 29.

Why is Copenhagen the first stop for opening the door to Northern Europe?

 

△Direct flights from Copenhagen to Shanghai have resumed/Screenshot from Weibo

 

In terms of Internet celebrity index, it is not as good as Reykjavik in Iceland; in terms of nationality, it is not as good as Stockholm, a new spokesperson in Northern Europe.

 

However, this city, known as "Merchant's Port" in Danish, has been an important gateway to Northern Europe since the Viking Age.

 

In addition to its geographical advantage of being close to the European continent, Copenhagen itself is also extremely charming.

 

△Copenhagen street scenery/unsplash

 

Even Guo Moruo once wrote a poem "Now that I have seen all the Nordic scenery, Danjing has the most beautiful people", giving Copenhagen the title of "the most beautiful in Northern Europe".

 

But for an old artist, appreciating Goha from the perspective of its scenery and people’s sentiments really buries the city’s personality.

 

From being named the "Best Designed City in the World" in 2018 to being recently picked by the United Nations to become the "World Capital of Architecture in 2023", Copenhagen is definitely a class representative when it comes to bringing warmth out of cold urban elements.

How unique is Copenhagen’s architectural design?

 

△Architecture in Copenhagen/unsplash

 

Let's put it this way, even if the walls are of different colors, the windows are uneven, and the balconies are in disorder, the only thing that can make obsessive-compulsive disorder feel more comfortable is Geha's new building.

 

Rather than going to the moon, the old artist wanted to buy a plane ticket and go to Copenhagen to see more buildings.

 

buildings in Copenhagen

It's too romantic

 

In Denmark, known as the "Fairy Tale Kingdom", Copenhagen, as the capital, is naturally not immune to romance.

 

Whether it is the bronze statue of the Little Mermaid with melancholy eyebrows on the shallow sea, or Nyhavn, where Andersen once lived, with old houses lined with rainbows like Lego bricks, all of them have laid a Danish fairy tale style for this city. Fantasy background.

 

△The colorful houses in Copenhagen are full of dreamy colors/unsplash

 

The various palaces and castles you can encounter around the corner in the city center may be the same as those in other Central European countries, but the church in Copenhagen is built to look like a pipe organ.

 

This church, which was built in memory of the Danish theologian and hymn writer Glenn Tevey, was started in 1921 and took 19 years to complete. The front facade is made of small refractory yellow bricks, which are hand-stacked to form a high and low structure shaped like piano pipes. Pipe organ silhouette.

 

There is also a pipe organ inside the church, which is said to be the largest in Northern Europe. The décor is simplified and in an extremely asexual style, and borrows the shape of a pipe organ to output a symmetrical composition that is comparable to "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and is a healing Virgo.

 

△A church shaped like a pipe organ/wiki

 

The Mirror House, which had its exterior wall troubled by graffiti, was equipped with a mirror that turns into a magic mirror instantly; the CPH-Ø1 floating archipelago, a park-like island that can be reused and moves with the seasons... To this day, in addition to the church and the bell tower, in " The buildings in the center are basically less than six floors " In Copenhagen, you can still see the imagination and creativity comparable to fairy tales.

 

Copenhagen is bold when it comes to building houses.

 

Because winter and dark nights are too long, the buildings here will use larger areas of glass exterior walls for lighting. So near the Central Railway Station, you can see the Crystal Building, which is angular and whose exterior walls are all made of geometric glass. It looks like a clear crystal floating above the fountain in the square.

 

△Nykredit’s new headquarters——Crystal Building/wiki

 

Compared with the association of fragile glass, sloping high-rise buildings can make people more nervous. The Bella Sky Hotel, which is nearly 80 meters high, is composed of two towers that are tilted outward at 15 degrees, which is more tilted than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

 

This is the largest hotel in Scandinavia. It is located on the 17th floor of Building 2, the location with the best lighting in the building. It also has 20 women's rooms specially designed for women to book.

 

△TiltBella Sky Hotel/wiki

 

In Copenhagen, parks can be coloured.

 

The red square covered with red rubber-colored blocks has become a good place for open-air movies, selling stalls and holding large-scale sports due to its open and flat terrain. The black square composed of black asphalt roads and irregular lines is equipped with various shapes. Different benches and undulating ramps are like a corner of the urban living room, where you can relax or sweat.

 

△Superkilen Park area planning map/wiki

 

The green square adjacent to the school, composed of hills full of green plants, is contracted by student parties and child walkers. After all, in the cold Northern Europe, there is nothing happier than picnicking and basking in the sunshine on the grass. It's over.

The use of different colors for functional zoning resolves the dispute between the square dancing aunt and the basketball boy competing for the venue from the source. Geha’s design wisdom is evident.

 

This super linear park (Superkilen), which is made up of red, black and green colors, is located in the Norrebrohall district, which is home to residents from more than 60 countries and has the highest ethnic diversity in Goha. The park is also decorated with man-made landscapes such as British trash cans, American neon signs, and Armenian picnic tables. It can be said that the World Expo is brought to your doorstep.

 

△Superkilen Park in Copenhagen/unsplash

 

However, what Copenhagen lacks most is childlike innocence.

 

The large round bridge is made up of five circles of different sizes connected. It looks like Mickey Mouse's ears when viewed up close. The staggered arrangement of metal traction columns makes the bridge look like it is docked on the Christian City Canal from a distance. The small boat; the luminous rings on the pillars look like bubbles spit out by a school of fish when viewed in the night.

 

△A large round bridge made of five circles connected/unsplash

 

From different angles, see different beauty. Even something as unattractive as burning garbage will be played out in Copenhagen.

 

As we all know, there are no mountains in Copenhagen. Even though it snows nearly half of the year, residents of Copenhagen still have to drive several hours to Sweden if they want to ski. Thus, CopenHill came into being.

 

△Copen Mountain, a waste-to-energy plant, ski resort and rock climbing wall/big.dk

 

It’s a waste-to-energy plant, ski slope and climbing wall all rolled into one. Inside the building is an ultra-high temperature incinerator used to burn garbage to generate electricity; outside the longest facade is an 85-meter-high artificial climbing wall made of stainless steel fiberglass.

 

The most amazing thing is that the slope on the top floor of this giant building has been transformed into a ski resort with an area of ​​over 10,000 square meters, a length of about 1,500 meters, and a maximum slope of 33 degrees.

 

The entire ski resort is covered with green plastic carpets made of recycled garbage. This special design can reduce friction. Even in the season without snow, people can experience the speed and passion of skateboarding y1>.

 

Creativity, livability comes first

We are also playing with reinforced concrete, so why is Copenhagen so good?

 

This has to mention the Goha design gene that has continued since the days of John Utzon. The master architect who created the Sydney Opera House once said this:

 

"What we need is a healthy lifestyle. To know how to stand, sit and lie comfortably, to enjoy the sun, the shadows, the water on your body, the land and all the feelings that are difficult to clearly define."

 

△Copenhagen’s buildings are designed with people’s needs as the starting point/unsplash

 

In Copenhagen, architectural design never serves a frivolous idea, but Adapt to the environment, root in the soil, put people first, and observe reality Tear off its creative exterior and you will find that green, livable and sustainable are almost written into every brick and tile of Goha’s architecture.

 

Bjarke Ingels, the architect who created Copenhagen, proposed a concept: Hedonic sustainability In his opinion, to promote sustainable living, we must first make sustainability a happy thing.

 

Under the guidance of this belief, his architectural firm BIG has successively launched three excellent designs of mountain-shaped apartments, VM houses and 8-shaped houses, which can be called "dream homes".

 

△VM house/wiki with a very special appearance

 

Two-thirds of the space is used for parking, and one-third of the space is used for residential mountain-shaped apartments. Through the staggered stacking of stairs and split-level design, each apartment has an open door to the garage and a window to the garden. villa facilities;

 

The balcony filled with green plants wraps the entire apartment into a green gable, making up for the lack of mountains in Copenhagen in terms of urban landscape.

 

In Copenhagen, what is more scarce than green is sunlight . VM house is famous for its two buildings that look like a V and an M from the air. But at the beginning of construction, this project was not optimistic.

 

△VM house has good lighting/wiki

 

The land is remote and funds are limited, so we can only make full use of the space, reduce costs, and attract customers with limited purchasing power. Therefore, the parts of the apartment that could not achieve a square pattern were divided into "irregular trapezoids, rhombuses and even triangles ".

 

The need for living space varies based on income,but everyone is equal when it comes to enjoying the sun. As a result, the balcony was transformed into a zigzag shape that extends outward like shark teeth to ensure that each household can enjoy an independent sunbathing space in a limited space.

 

△The balcony of VM house looks like shark’s teeth/wiki

 

The figure-8 house is a building based on the concept of Möbius strip. This eight-shaped building is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, integrating shopping malls, office buildings and residential buildings. The hollow patio provides nearly a thousand square meters of public activity space;

 

The sloping roof is filled with green plants, which is a smart way to alleviate the urban heat island effect; and the circular passage connecting the inside and outside of the building allows bicycles to be ridden from the first floor to the top floor, which is a great option for Copenhageners who love to ride bicycles. , can be regarded as a life-saving existence.

 

△An 8-shaped house that combines green, livable and sustainable properties/wiki

 

Copenhagen not only has “other people’s houses”, but also many “other people’s dormitories”. Tietgen Kollegiet, a dormitory at the University of Copenhagen that was inspired by Fujian earth buildings, solves the pain point of insufficient sunlight with its well-proportioned and uneven floor-to-ceiling windows.

 

The relatively cold first floor is designed into functional public spaces such as a laundry room and a gym.

 

If you cannot afford the high cost of student dormitories, Urban Rigger, a container apartment floating in Copenhagen Harbor, may also be an option. The containers are arranged in a circle and staggered on two floors. In this way, 9 containers become 12 single apartments.

 

△Inspired by the student dormitories of Fujian Tulou/wiki

 

The top platform is equipped with solar panels and lounge chairs for sunbathing. The patio in the middle is a public activity area, which can be regarded as a small but well-equipped space.

Environmentally friendly Goha

It is worth copying the work from all countries

Located in Northern Europe, where man and nature are highly integrated, Copenhagen is good at bringing out the old and bringing forth the new, and it is even better at renovating old things. In this city with slow population growth and emphasis on old city maintenance, large-scale demolition and construction has never been the inevitable rhythm of evolution.

 

Gemini Residences, a silo-style residential building transformed from a warehouse for storing seeds, Portland Towers, transformed from a silo for storing cement, and even a 1981 brewery can be transformed into a modern minimalist law firm .

 

△A silo-style residential building converted from a warehouse storing seeds/wiki

 

Even institutions that are not short of money, such as the Royal Library and the National Gallery, prefer to achieve reasonable expansion by adding twin buildings on the basis of the original building cluster rather than choosing a new location.

But the strange-shaped buildings are just the tip of the iceberg of Goha’s urban construction wisdom.

From the initial focus on nuclear energy, to being restricted by energy imports and having to focus on clean energy such as wind and solar energy; from being dominated by cars to more than 62% of residents commuting by bicycle... In terms of building an environmentally friendly city, Copenhagen said Second, I am afraid that no country will dare to be number one.

 

△In Copenhagen, people are more willing to travel by bicycle/unsplash

In 2016, the number of bicycles in Copenhagen exceeded that of cars . All municipal plans have not forgotten their good friend - the bicycle. In Copenhagen, bicycles can not only go upstairs, but can also be driven into shopping malls, ships and even train carriages.

The "Finger Planning" plan, born in 1947, has already set the tone for Copenhagen's urban construction.

 

△In Copenhagen, there is a flyover specially designed for bicycles/unsplash

 

The palm of the hand is the core urban area, satellite cities extend outward from the palm in the shape of fingers, and the wedge-shaped green space between the fingers is the green wedge. As the city expands outward, the area of ​​the green wedge will continue to expand.

 

However, the plan stipulates that no matter how much the city expands, these precious green wedges cannot be used to build buildings and become urban land, but can only be used for the construction of non-urban outdoor projects such as agriculture, parks, and greenways.

 

△Copenhagen will still use many green wedges to build parks and greenways/unsplash

 

As the world's first metropolis to achieve carbon neutrality in 2025, the Copenhagen Road may be the only shortcut for mankind to save itself.