AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
KEYWORDS
urban mobility, sustainability, bicycles
COUNTRY
Denmark
DESIGNED BY
Client: Municipality of Copenhagen
Architect: DISSING+WEITLING architecture
Engineer: Rambøll (DK)
Contractor: MT Højgaard (DK)
Light Design: lightconstructor (DK)
WEBSITE
http://dw.dk/cykelslangen/
The Cycle Snake / Cykelslangen
Cycle Snake is an elevated bike lane seamlessly connecting the highway and the harbour
The project went from a ramp to an elevated bicycle route. It winds its way and by doing so it makes the bikers inadvertently slow down. A bike route above land and water. And it barely touches either resting on slim columns with a distance of 17 – 20 m. It epitomizes the image of Copenhagen as a bicycle City. The pure joy of cycling. It is orange. Orange so that it may hold its own elevated place amidst the surroundings. Orange to provide a sense of sensuous luxury. Orange to give it warmth in daytime and at night lit up from the LED strips in the glimmering stainless steel handrails.
Cykelslangen is not an elevated bicycle route. It is not an attempt to establish elevated bicycle routes as such, to separate cyclist from the ground level. Bicycles should not be isolated from but rather be an integrated part of city life, street life. Cykelslangen is a specific answer to a specific problem in Copenhagen