The City of Copenhagen’s overall goal for the city’s 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.
Containers are a good example of overproduction which can be used for many other purposes than freight. Throughout the world, for example in the USA, you will come across huge, man-made mountains of containers. It is frequently uneconomic to ship containers back again to where they came from, so they are simply left to pile up.
