photo:Dissing+Weitling

Copenhagen's new cycle bridge The Bicycle Snake will complete the journey over the Bryggebro Bridge, offering Copenhagen's cyclists a fun ride along the harbour and past its tower blocks at first-floor level. As part of Copenhagen's strategy to be one of the best cycling cities in the world, the new cycle bridge will guarantee cyclists improved accessibility and connection to the city.

While Copenhagen's cyclists are delighted with the Bryggebro Bridge, they are also annoyed with the poor cycle transit at the Dybbølsbro Bridge. But that situation will soon be remedied, when the new Bicycle Snake (Cykelslangen in danish) cycle bridge raises cyclists safely from the Dybbølsbro Bridge to the Bryggebro Bridge. When the connection between Vesterbro and Islandsbrygge is completed with a shortcut across Copenhagen Harbour, cyclists will no longer have to lug their bikes up and down a set of steps north of the Fisketorvet Shopping Centre.

photo:Rasmus Hjortshoj-COAST Studio

Urban aesthetic at first-floor level

This slender bridge will wind its elegant way from the Fisketorvet Shopping Centre, out over the harbour basin, and in between the blocks at Kalvebod Brygge, thus creating an elegant contrast to the rest of the area's massive concrete residential buildings. In order to give the cyclist both an aesthetic and a dynamic experience, The Bicycle Snake has been designed so that parts of it will extend out on to the water. The new cycle bridge will meander six-seven meters above the surface of the water and in between Hotel Copenhagen Island, Aller Huset and Atrium above the pedestrian traffic on Vesterbrogade, all at first-floor level.

photo:Rasmus Hjortshoj-COAST Studio

Slender steel snake

Architects from the Dissing + Weitling architecture firm are responsible for the design of The Bicycle Snake. The Bridge will be 4 metres wide with a 190-metre bridge and a 30-metre ramp. It will be built in steel to create a light, slender design, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2013. To create space for the pillars, which bear the bridge, the harbour swimming bath (link to CPH X) will also be moved a little further out into the water.

Copenhagen - best cycling city in the world in 2015

photo:Rasmus Hjortshoj-COAST Studio

photo:Rasmus Hjortshoj-COAST Studio

photo:Dissing+Weitling

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