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Local Recycling Centre Nordhavn
Local Recycling Centre Nordhavn
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Local Recycling Centre Nordhavn
Copenhagen, Denmark
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
Effective waste sorting is the most important prerequisite for effective recycling. Therefore, it is relevant to make waste sorting more user friendly and instructive. At Local Recycling Centre Nordhavn, the waste handling is intuitive and at the same time an exhibition of the possibilities that recycling and reuse offer.
Nordhavn in Copenhagen is growing, and this means there was basis for a new local recycling centre in the Århusgade area. The ambitious project for the Nordhavn redevelopment needed a recycling centre that could meet these ambitions. The new local recycling centre is a social meeting place for the local society and a centre for recycling and exchange of ideas as well as experience regarding recycling. In the recycling centre, waste will be seen as a resource. In practice, this means that there are lectures, flea markets and workshops for repairing broken things.
"The material wall" is the curved wall that welcomes visitors to the recycling centre. Though it looks like an artwork built of waste, it also has a practical function showing visitors how to dispose of their waste correctly. The material wall is divided into the different fractions of materials that are recycled behind it - so if you have plastic to recycle, you just need to find the wall made of plastic and go through the opening. Got some old pains of worn jeans - just go to the wall made of textile, it is as easy as that. In this way, the material wall acts as a very low tech and intuitive way finding system for the visitors.
When the recycling centre is unmanned, it will still be open to the public. The containers will be locked, but there is still a hole in each material wall that you can throw your waste through, landing in a container behind.
"The swap shelf" is the flexible centre of the recycling centre. The shelves can be used by users of the centre to hand in things that are still functional or just need a bit of repair. The repairs take place in the workshop of the centre - on site refurbishment saves a lot of resources!
The swap allows for many different configurations that permit various activities at the centre. In the centre of the swap shelf there is a seating area, making it possible to hold lectures about recycling or teaching school classes about the processes that the waste goes through before it can become a valuable resource again.
Parts of the swap shelf are mounted with wheels and can be moved out onto the square in front of the recycling centre, thereby creating a more prominent interface to the local environment.
Denmark has an efficient recycling system, which saves the environment from being polluted from things that are not needed any longer. But for the system to work optimally, it is important that materials are sorted correctly to ensure a consistent quality of recycled materials. In Nordhavn the sorting of waste fractions now becomes an intuitive matter, since the spaces for each material are built of the materials themselves.
The aim of the local recycling centre in Nordhavn was to create a place where waste handling is as effective and easy as possible for the users, thus increasing the value of the material fractions generated here.
The new recycling centre is a natural hub for recycling related activities in Nordhavn. People can learn more about the environment, waste, upcycling etc. and within the manned opening hours it is possible to ask the staff about anything related to recycling. Since the walls of the recycling centre are made of waste the place itself will become a physical manifestation of how waste materials gathered at recycling centres can be transformed into new materials with a higher value.
The walls of the recycling centre are made of different waste fractions, and since these walls will be specially produced for this project, new jobs will be created in the process - as well as showing that there are viable possibilities in using waste as building material.
The workshops integrated into the centre will make it possible to repair broken things from people’s homes - not only saving the environment from a lot of unnecessary waste, but also allowing locals to meet each other and exchange knowledge about recycling, waste and repair.
CLIENT
Copenhagen Municipality
COLLABORATORS
Per Hagemann Consulting Engineers
Pelcon Material Testing
PHOTOS
Rasmus Hjortshøj
Nordhavn in Copenhagen is growing, and this means there was basis for a new local recycling centre in the Århusgade area. The ambitious project for the Nordhavn redevelopment needed a recycling centre that could meet these ambitions. The new local recycling centre is a social meeting place for the local society and a centre for recycling and exchange of ideas as well as experience regarding recycling. In the recycling centre, waste will be seen as a resource. In practice, this means that there are lectures, flea markets and workshops for repairing broken things.
"The material wall" is the curved wall that welcomes visitors to the recycling centre. Though it looks like an artwork built of waste, it also has a practical function showing visitors how to dispose of their waste correctly. The material wall is divided into the different fractions of materials that are recycled behind it - so if you have plastic to recycle, you just need to find the wall made of plastic and go through the opening. Got some old pains of worn jeans - just go to the wall made of textile, it is as easy as that. In this way, the material wall acts as a very low tech and intuitive way finding system for the visitors.
When the recycling centre is unmanned, it will still be open to the public. The containers will be locked, but there is still a hole in each material wall that you can throw your waste through, landing in a container behind.
"The swap shelf" is the flexible centre of the recycling centre. The shelves can be used by users of the centre to hand in things that are still functional or just need a bit of repair. The repairs take place in the workshop of the centre - on site refurbishment saves a lot of resources!
The swap allows for many different configurations that permit various activities at the centre. In the centre of the swap shelf there is a seating area, making it possible to hold lectures about recycling or teaching school classes about the processes that the waste goes through before it can become a valuable resource again.
Parts of the swap shelf are mounted with wheels and can be moved out onto the square in front of the recycling centre, thereby creating a more prominent interface to the local environment.
Denmark has an efficient recycling system, which saves the environment from being polluted from things that are not needed any longer. But for the system to work optimally, it is important that materials are sorted correctly to ensure a consistent quality of recycled materials. In Nordhavn the sorting of waste fractions now becomes an intuitive matter, since the spaces for each material are built of the materials themselves.
The aim of the local recycling centre in Nordhavn was to create a place where waste handling is as effective and easy as possible for the users, thus increasing the value of the material fractions generated here.
The new recycling centre is a natural hub for recycling related activities in Nordhavn. People can learn more about the environment, waste, upcycling etc. and within the manned opening hours it is possible to ask the staff about anything related to recycling. Since the walls of the recycling centre are made of waste the place itself will become a physical manifestation of how waste materials gathered at recycling centres can be transformed into new materials with a higher value.
The walls of the recycling centre are made of different waste fractions, and since these walls will be specially produced for this project, new jobs will be created in the process - as well as showing that there are viable possibilities in using waste as building material.
The workshops integrated into the centre will make it possible to repair broken things from people’s homes - not only saving the environment from a lot of unnecessary waste, but also allowing locals to meet each other and exchange knowledge about recycling, waste and repair.
CLIENT
Copenhagen Municipality
COLLABORATORS
Per Hagemann Consulting Engineers
Pelcon Material Testing
PHOTOS
Rasmus Hjortshøj
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