WINNER - WE ARE THE WORLD entry code [UN045]
Team: Tanja Jordan, Kristoffer Nejsum, Sanne Lovén Damgaard
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RUNNER-UP - SENSES BY THE SEA entry code [OY333]
Team: Mai Hammer, Rikke Gry Rasmussen, Stine Henckel Schultz, Louise Grønlund
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HONORABLE MENTION - CONTAINERS entry code [XC387]
Team: Monica Sanchez Gomez
Contributor: Carlos Ortega Martinez
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HONORABLE MENTION - NORDHAVN FRONT(S) entry code [NE017]
Team: Nanda Eskes
Contributors: Fabiana Araujo, Ranata Bolliger, Funny Mantz, Marie Nemesin, Sergio Raposo
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Over the next few decades, the Nordhavnen area will undergo an enormous transformation that will give Copenhagen a completely new urban district in which the water and the harbour will be essential elements.

Entrants in the competition are requested to present a design strategy that deals with the relationship between the water and the water’s edge as part of the future city district in various contexts. This strategy should be visualised in relation to a specific area close to the Nordhavn Basin, which should feature activities oriented towards the water.  

City: Copenhagen/Nordhavnen
Population: 500.000/40.000
Study Site: 60 ha
Site of project: 0.5 ha
Category: Urban/architectural

SITE VISIT REPORT

DATE
On March 19th participants could visit the site of Copenhagen and meet with representatives from By & Havn/Copenhagen City and Port Authority

download report from the site visit here

Why the City of Copenhagen and CPH City and Port Development are taking part in Europan 10

In their respective capacities as planning authority and one of the largest developers in Copenhagen, the City of Copenhagen and CPH City and Port Development have a shared interest in creating vivacious city districts that are attractive to live and work in, districts in which a good environment, diversity and identity provide opportunities for people to unfold.   

The continued development of Copenhagen involves projects of very different scales and different natures. Competitions provide us with a wide range of illustrations of possible responses and ensure high architectural quality. A competition such as Europan also gives young and less experienced architects an opportunity to make their mark on the city’s development in the form of new ideas and new approaches to given assignments. 
 
Both the City of Copenhagen and CPH City and Port Development make a targeted effort to ensure that the city’s unique location at the water – ranging from the open Sound to the large urban spaces in the main harbour basin and the narrower and more intimate canals – is utilised to create both small and large, formal and informal communal urban spaces. 

We have more than forty kilometres of quays along the waterfront in Copenhagen. Activating these areas is a job that calls for imagination, enthusiasm and cheekiness. That is why we expect a great deal from our participation in Europan 10 where we sponsor a project focusing on ‘the edge’, ie the relationship between land and water.

- Rita Justesen, Head of Planning, CPH City and Port Development and Jan Christiansen, City architect, municipality of Copenhagen

>> Read more about Europan and register at Europan Europe’s web-site europan-europe.com