In Copenhagen harbor, a tiny wooden ‘island’ becomes floating public space

Copenhagen harbor’s newest addition isn’t some fancy houseboat or floating food truck—it’s a tiny man-made island. Created by duo Marshall Blecher and Magnus Maarbjerg of the Danish design studio Fokstrot, the five-sided wooden platform measures just 215 square feet, apparently enough room for a living linden tree and a few stranded friends. It’s also a possible peek at the future of Copenhagen’s public space.

CPH-Ø1, as the island is called, is just the first hand-built prototype for an entire connected ecosystem of public floating platforms as part of the Copenhagen Islands project. Blecher and Maarbjerg hope to create a new kind of public park in Copenhagen—a “Parkipelago” made of many such islands of varying size installed throughout the city’s inner harbor. They envision an island with a sauna, a performance venue, one with a garden, another with a mussel farm and sail-in cafe.

“It was developed to ​introduce life and activity to Copenhagen’s rapidly developing harbour and to ​bring back some of the whimsy that has been lost in ​its development,” Blecher told Dezeen.

“The prototype island has been used as a resting place for kayakers and swimmers, for sunbathing, fishing and for small events...later this month it will host a lecture series about the future of harbor cities.”

Photo by Christian Emdal via Dezeen

Via: Dezeen