位于哥本哈根的垃圾回收中心隐藏在一个人造小山里，它不仅仅是一个实用的基础设施，设计者更把它打造成一处公共空间。BIG的当前方案试图通过创建一个充满活力、有吸引力的城市空间来改变目前废物处理中心混凝土盒子的建筑类型。

丹麦的垃圾回收率达42%，只有6%左右是通过垃圾填埋处理的。垃圾回收站点是生活垃圾回收再利用的关键一环，在这里，一般民众和专门人员可以免费倾倒可回收垃圾，清除城市产生的剩饭剩菜。

这个“8”字形设施被设置在地平面以下，从盆地的边缘上，市民可以看到垃圾回收广场以及内壁上可回收材料的生动图示说明。周围还提供有健身设施、跑道和野餐区。

As a society, our investment in waste management often ends up as utilitarian facilities of concrete
boxes that constitute gray areas on our city maps. What if they could become attractive and lively
urban spaces in the neighborhoods they form part of?
In Denmark 42% of the waste is recycled. Only 6% ends in a landfill. At the core of the effort to
enhance the resource extraction from household waste are the recycling stations, where people and
professionals can drop off their recyclable waste for free—and scavenge the leftovers of their fellow
citizens.
Sydhavns Recycling Center is merely conceived as a public space rather than a piece of infrastructure.
The man-made hill holds facilities for fitness, viewpoints, running tracks, and picnic areas. From the
ridge of the crater, curious citizens can look into the recycling square and learn about the journey of
recycled materials graphically illustrated on the inside of the crater wall.
In its simplest form the recycling station is a way to start thinking of our cities as integrated manmade
ecosystems, where we don’t distinguish between the front and back of house. But rather
orchestrate all aspects of daily life, from consumption to recycling, from infrastructure to education,
from the practical to the playful into a single integrated urban landscape of work and play.