The green river

Kløvermarken is a big, unpolished gem in Copenhagen, and in our competition proposal the potentials of increasing the connection between the area and the rest of the city was central. The main concept is relatively simple. It redefines the extent of the existing Kløvermark area and establishes a new space that runs through the area like a riverbed, maintaining the significant qualities of the landscape: the sport and recreational facilities and the visual connection with the medieval city centre. This green river also creates a new attractive connection from the ramparts of Christianshavn to the Prøvesten Canal and the local centre of the new city district.

The intention behind the proposal was to weave into and build on the area’s multi-coloured mosaic of functions, scales and people with future-oriented focus on sport, movement and sustainability.