The City of Copenhagens overall goal for the citys development
is that Copenhagen will become an international, outstanding
example of sustainable urban development. The same values
form the basis for the framework of the North Harbour Exhibition.
The sustainable container-pavilion has been developed by the
architect’s office MAPT in collaboration with the City of
Copenhagen.
This is not recycling; it is upcycling.
With its pavilion project in the North Harbour Exhibition, MAPT
has based its approach on the cradle-to-cradle principle,
consigning the use-and-throw-out approach to the graveyard. The
idea is simple: take a surplus product like an old, empty shipping
container and give it some value again. In this way you have
a supremely sustainable solution which can quickly be made
exclusive in spite of the materials’ original use.