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<\/a> Dan Mogenson presenting to the students.<\/p>\n<\/a> At the end of the road on which the council offices are situated is the Islands Brygge park which we visited after Dan’s presentation.<\/p>\n<\/a> It is designed using the remnants of the old industrial structures that were on the site previously and act as historic markers around which the park has been developed.<\/p>\n<\/a> These include some of the old goods wagons (colonised by Rachel and Jess recreating a scene from Titanic).<\/p>\n<\/a> Another view of Islands Brygge – left over timber structures reused as light fittings.<\/p>\n<\/a> Groups of Hawthorn and grids of benches form a counterpoint to the old industrial fabric.<\/p>\n<\/a> The main use for the park is as a bathing area – though in October it was a bit too cold and no one was in the water. Luckily the council provides mobile Saunas you can use instead.<\/p>\n<\/a> Crossing over the bridge to the northern side of the harbour we visited the Kalvebod B\u00f8lge, an extension of the waterfront at Kalvebod Brygge, an “undulating promenade rising to varying levels and jutting into the harbour will provide space for a range of water activities.”<\/p>\n<\/a> “The shape draws the promenade out into the sun, thereby ensuring that Kalvebod Brygge, which otherwise remains in the shade from noon onwards, benefits from the maximum possible hours of sunshine. Along the promenade there is a number of small recreational zones and pools for different purposes as well as a jetty for kayaks.”<\/p>\n<\/a> The undulating structures create a sense of play along an otherwise quite uninviting edge to the harbour.<\/p>\n<\/a> They include various structures and forms encouraging people to play, exercise, jump around and generally have a good time.<\/p>\n<\/a> Just behind Kalvebod Brygge is the wonderful landscape City Dune by SLA, forming the ground plane and setting for a new office development. The use of cast in-situ white concrete forms a facetted ground plane leading people through a ‘swedish forest landscape’, now intensively colonised by sketers.<\/p>\n<\/a> The leaves of the maple trees leave prints on the white concrete, a beautiful trace of the season.<\/p>\n<\/a> The landscape leads up 2-3 storeys from the surrounding roads to a raised walk through another office development. It is the opposite of the typical office development (an object building in an open space) as it is formed by a series of office towers scattered around a focal public space, with the ground levels of the landscape feeding into the buildings and forming a contoured floor for the buildings.<\/p>\n<\/a> From City Dune we then took the train to the North of Copenhagen to see the new Superkilen Park – an exciting development by a group called Superflex including artists, landscape architects and architects. It is split into 3 areas – a red area, a black area and a green area.<\/p>\n<\/a> The black area is tarmac with white stripes on it, both fun and oddly bleak at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/a> The park as a whole was filled with interesting objects, all of which were chosen by members of the local community. The community draw from over 100 different countries and everyone was asked to choose something from their own culture – from benches and bollards, to boxing rings and neon signs…<\/p>\n<\/a> … for example a bench from Portugal and…<\/p>\n<\/a> …each object has a small ID plate describing it in both Danish and the language of its country of origin.<\/p>\n<\/a> Danny testing the rings in the ‘green’park section.<\/p>\n