In Køge, south of Copenhagen, a new station is being built in a cooperation between Banedanmark, Køge Municipality and DSB. The station will be a new green gateway to Copenhagen for more than 100.000 people passing through every day. The station will be a new hot spot for the entire Copenhagen region and will provide commuters access to integrated transportation systems, where commuters can change transportation modes to bus, rail, car or bicycle.

The station will feature a 225-meter-long pedestrian bridge with an eggplant design, a light superstructure and solar cells will be placed on the roofs in the surrounding park and ride facility. The pedestrian bridge will combine Denmark’s most trafficked freeway with the local Copenhagen S-train line, and the new electrified high speed railway-line.
Køge Nord Station will contribute significantly to meeting future transport requirements by improving the timetable with more frequents departures and reducing travel time.

The interior of the pedestrian bridge consists of warm and inviting materials. Padded with wooden lamellae, the inside of the pedestrian bridge becomes a warm and welcoming area, giving commuters a tactile experience in an otherwise streamlined weekday. From the outside the pedestrian bridge is covered with perforated electroplated sinus steel plates, adding depth to the expression of the façade while also matching the materials from the surrounding infrastructural system.

“Køge North Station is a very unique project, both in terms of architecture and engineering. The station will be part of many people’s everyday life. In our work we have focused on the flow across the freeway - from west to east and east to west. The difference between the open side in the north and the closed side in the south. Vista and intimacy. Movement and repose. The experience, atmosphere and joy of traveling,”explains Steen Savery Trojaborg, Partner and CEO at DISSING+WEITLING. 

See the video of the Køge Nord Station design here: