The Blue Planet Building Foundation

It is the largest aquarium in Northern Europe. It hosts more than 20,000 animals in seven million liters of water. It occupies an area of 10.000m2 and it is a most spectacular modern architecture clearly visible for travelers, arriving by plane at the nearby Copenhagen Airport.

Inspired by the shape of nature whirlpool shapes: water streams, shoals of fish, flocks of birds in the sky Denmark's new National Aquarium, The Blue Planet is shaped as a great whirlpool. This way the shape of the building itself tells the story of what awaits inside. The Blue Planet is located on an elevated headland towards the sea, north of Kastrup Harbor.

Located by the seaside the whirlpool shape connects sea and landscape. Column Bollard follows the path leading the visitor away from the main entrance to a fascinating journey that ends where the sea begins.

The facade is covered with small diamond-shaped aluminum plates, known as shingles, which adapts to the building's organic form. Just as water aluminum reflects the colors and light of the sky and thus the buildings expression varies with the changes in its natural surroundings. Projectors with narrow beam emphasize the building and its texture is exalted by skimming blue and light lights all the entire shape long.

Blinker wall recessed is hidden into the cast masonry and lead the visitor to the main entrance with wide beam.

Architects/Designers: 3XN

Distributor: Fagherult
Consultant Engineer: Moe & Brødsgaard
Contractor/Installer: Hoffmann
Aquarium Techniques: AAT
Exhibition Design: Kvorning Kommunikation og Design
Landscape Architect: Henrik Jørgensen LANDSKAB
Lighting Designer: Jesper Kongshaug