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A Copenhagen park is helping make car infrastructure more human-centric

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28 Nov 2023
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A Copenhagen park is helping make car infrastructure more human-centric
  1. Danish architecture practice Cobe designed Opera Park, a public space adjacent to the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. - Francisco Tirado
  2. At the street level, the green space accommodates leisure and recreation while also providing parking for 300 cars in an underground parking garage below its surface. - Francisco Tirado
  3. With over 223 exotic and local species, there are 600 trees, 80,000 perennials and bushes and 40,000 bulb plants from all over the world, the variety of plant life helps bring biodiversity through different bird and insect species - Francisco Tirado
  4. . The park is in bloom all year round and vegetation was selected so that its appearance, scent, colour and density vary with the seasons. - Francisco Tirado
  5. Meandering paths and organically shaped flower beds determine the park’s wayfinding, which leads to a greenhouse and atrium at its centre. - Francisco Tirado
  6. This ensures that the site remains active for public use despite the season or the weather. - Francisco Tirado
  7. The greenhouse and café are situated in an organically shaped glass structure. - Francisco Tirado
  8. The greenhouse terrace extends down to the parking levels, weaving a vertical connection between the park and underground levels. - Francisco Tirado
  9. A covered walkway mimics the greenhouse’s architecture and feeds into the opera house’s entrance. - Francisco Tirado
  10. Cross-section of the greenhouse and underground parking garage/ - Cobe
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  1. Danish architecture practice Cobe designed Opera Park, a public space adjacent to the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. - Francisco Tirado
  2. At the street level, the green space accommodates leisure and recreation while also providing parking for 300 cars in an underground parking garage below its surface. - Francisco Tirado
  3. With over 223 exotic and local species, there are 600 trees, 80,000 perennials and bushes and 40,000 bulb plants from all over the world, the variety of plant life helps bring biodiversity through different bird and insect species - Francisco Tirado
  4. . The park is in bloom all year round and vegetation was selected so that its appearance, scent, colour and density vary with the seasons. - Francisco Tirado
  5. Meandering paths and organically shaped flower beds determine the park’s wayfinding, which leads to a greenhouse and atrium at its centre. - Francisco Tirado
  6. This ensures that the site remains active for public use despite the season or the weather. - Francisco Tirado
  7. The greenhouse and café are situated in an organically shaped glass structure. - Francisco Tirado
  8. The greenhouse terrace extends down to the parking levels, weaving a vertical connection between the park and underground levels. - Francisco Tirado
  9. A covered walkway mimics the greenhouse’s architecture and feeds into the opera house’s entrance. - Francisco Tirado
  10. Cross-section of the greenhouse and underground parking garage/ - Cobe
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Location
Map pointer Ekvipagemestervej 18, 1438 København K, Denmark
Architect, Landscape Architect
Cobe
Client
The Opera Park Foundation
Floor Area
21,500 sq-m

At street level, Opera Park is a public garden that seeks to introduce more usable green space to Copenhagen’s city centre. But it conceals a 300-car parking garage beneath its surface.

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