The slope starts on top of the roof and circles around the building.
Building with ski slope on roof.
Copenhill s ski slope measures 400 metres and runs from the top of the 90 metre high building to its base with a 180 degree turn halfway down the piste.
Elevation model.
Certain measures however were taken to ensure that the ski slope and park could be accommodated above a building that remains highly hazardous and dangerous.
Access to the ski slope is provided by an elevator adjacent to the smoke stack.
View from the water.
The ski surface incidentally is an artificial plastic material not snow.
Due to the high temperatures and pressure levels reached in the boilers and scrubbers the biggest risk to the structure of waste to energy plants is to have the roof quite literally pop.
Amager bakke a first of its kind public utility topped with an artificial mountain resort is the danish capital s latest landmark.
The roof of the factory is turned into an artificial ski slope.
The office building would have replaced a plumber s merchants on stockmore street off the cowley road.
For this reason several roof slabs for example in the ski slope area were formed at a 25 angle.
Thus some storeys disappear below ground and provide the skiers with more space.
No other building in the world is using its roof for a slalom track he says.
We also had to allow for a higher live load factor on the roof for the ski slope which can accommodate 1 500 people.
Overall the new building situated on the hillside was designed so that it blends into the terrain.
We ramboll to accommodate the ski slope did have to stack the building higher to get the right slope for a 300 meter ski run.
The mevaflex slab formwork used was supported by eumax props.
A ski slope is built on the roof of the new waste management centre amager resource center in copenhagen niels christian vilmann ritzau scanpix afp via getty details of the power plant ski slope hybrid were first teased in 2010 and it reportedly cost 550m 600m.