Isle Go: Floating Islands Buoy Copenhagen Harbor

Isle Go: Floating Islands Buoy Copenhagen Harbor

Isle Go: Floating Islands Buoy Copenhagen Harbor

The Studio Fokstrot team has elaborated an expanded vision that goes beyond “Copenhagen Islands”. At press time they were hard at work on a range of other harbor projects such as a floating fish market and a floating cabin. The latter is a first step towards “re-imagining the relationship between cities and the sea in a time of rapid urban development and sea level rise.” That’s the good thing about floating islands – if the sea level should rise, they rise along with it.

Isle Go: Floating Islands Buoy Copenhagen Harbor

Although CPH-01 is an artificial floating island, its natural components have a limited lifespan due to their material make-up and the ever-changing environment of Copenhagen Harbor. Estimates from Studio Fokstrot indicate the island should last about a year before significant repairs and structural remediation may be necessary. Not that this is a bad thing… new islands are expected to replace old ones and the ongoing work will help support Copenhagen’s skilled craftspeople as time goes on.

Isle Go: Floating Islands Buoy Copenhagen Harbor

Giving credit where credit is due, we should state that the prototype CPH-01 floating island was constructed with the support of Konstfonden and Havnekultur 365. Additional assistance and contributions were provided by SITAS (Scandinavian Instant trees), Susens Bådbyggeri, and Syddjurs Savverk.