ADEPT

Nature Park Amager

Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

Nature Park Amager

ADEPT + LYTT

ARCHITECTS
ADEPT, LYTT

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
LYTT Architecture

COLLABORATORS
SYSTRA Denmark, BARK Radgivning, JAC studios

LEAD CONSULTANT
LYTT Architecture

CLIENTS
Municipalities of Copenhagen, Taarnby and Dragoer, The Danish Nature Agency, By & Havn

PROJECT TEAM
ADEPT, LYTT Architecture

PHOTOGRAPHS
orten Aagaard Krogh, LYTT Architecture

AREA
2024

YEAR
35000000 m²

LOCATION
København, Denmark

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Landscape Architecture, Park

Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

Text description provided by architect.

Just a short ride from Copenhagen City Hall Square, Amager Nature Park, a 35 km2 landscape park offers protected nature, open spaces, and an unhindered stretch of coastline.

Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

Completed over the past year, LYTT Architecture and ADEPT have rethought the park’s identity, including the completion of a series of visitor points that stage the overall experience of landscape, water, and biodiversity.

Concentrated in a series of easily accessible visitor points, a new design strategy makes Amager Nature Park - from the plains in the north to the south coast of Amager – more appealing to its users.

Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

With nature as its central focal point, the unique landscape habitat is reactivated through a homogeneous architectural vocabulary emphasizing the park's qualities, outdoor life, and social activities.

The design enhances the park’s DNA with a clear landscape narrative and an easily recognizable yet subtle architectural language.

The project elements draw upon existing landscape qualities by adding a layer of experience in a new framework for more diverse and inviting nature activities.

Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

One of the main design goals is to ensure that experience and protection supplement each other so that the untouched nature remains intact when existing and new users engage themselves in the visitor experience.

The completed visitor points are strategically located throughout the park to highlight the park's unique character, and to underline certain elements, views, or programs of the individual location by facilitating the meeting between man and nature, built and grown, building and landscape.

Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

The visitor points consist of both built volume and landscape elements. Each destination is tailored to its specific location, and each design emphasizes natural focal points and functions in the park with minimal interference from the protected landscape.

All destinations are placed in a transition zone from city to nature or from land to water to frame the contrast between the landscape and the surrounding city.

Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

Each visitor point creates unique opportunities for recreation, nature experiences, play, and learning by breaking down the large scale of the landscape into human-scale activities and narratives.

The individual building designs are founded in the same architectural vocabulary with visible wooden structures, distinctive roof shapes, and dark-burnt shingles that mark a place in the landscape without disturbing the experience of it.

Nature Park Amager
© LYTT Architecture
Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh

The buildings and visitor points are complemented by a system of 'tracks' or boardwalks that highlight routes in the landscape with a focus on accessibility and wayfinding in the park.


Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh
Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
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Nature Park Amager
© Morten Aagaard Krogh


Nature Park Amager
Elevation - Horisont Pavilion
Nature Park Amager
Elevation - Byskoven
Nature Park Amager
Elevation - Bird Tower
Nature Park Amager
Elevations - Slusen


Nature Park Amager
Section - Horisont Pavilion
Nature Park Amager
Section - Byskoven
Nature Park Amager
Section - Slusen


Nature Park Amager
Site Plan - Horisont Pavilion
Nature Park Amager
Site Plan - Byskoven
Nature Park Amager
Plans - Bird Tower
Nature Park Amager
Site Plan - Bird Tower
Nature Park Amager
Site Plan - Slusen


Nature Park Amager
Section - Bird Tower
Nature Park Amager
Site Plan
Nature Park Amager
Site Plan

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