Superkilen

Superkilen is a park about diversity, conceived by BIG and Topotek1 in Nørrebro, Denmark. The project is intended to celebrate the neighborhood’s diversity that reaches all corners of the world and bring everyone together into one global neighborhood. The primary concept is to fill the park space with objects and plantings from all around the world so you could theoretically sit on a Turkish bench under a Japanese cherry tree while looking at a Moroccan fountain. The designers even want the help of the community to pick out items from their country. Will this look like a mixture of things that don’t fit or will it all fit together in harmony and work with its differences?

The park will posess all that typically makes up a modern park with trails for pedestrian and bike, connections to local transport and outdoor recreation spaces along with a market space, areas for games and a community gathering plaza. The space also focuses on increasing the green, adding plenty of vegetation broken down into groups of species from various regions of the world and flowering times.

In the Green Park, the area would be primarily used for sporting events where people from all parts of the world could play games together. Games are something that seems to disolve borders, bringing people together into a common set of understood rules for a time of fun, no matter where you come from or what language you speak. Anyone can learn to play the game.

The red area is seen as the cultural center of the project, the Red Square, and is viewed as an outdoor extension of the new Nørrebro Hall, a cultural and sporting center. Some sort of red paving material would flow from the foyer of the hall to the outdoor space. The area could also offer an urban market with the hopes of drawing visitors out from Copenhangen to explore the outer areas.

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