A new indoor ski area has been proposed for the city of Randers in Denmark which would be the world's biggest yet and boast a futuristic design.
The structure would be made up of three overlapping arcs containing the slopes. From above they resemble the six lines of a typeface snowflake.
Ski Dome Denmark (skidomedenmark.dk) would be 110m high and 700m in diameter with an indoor ski area of 64,000 square metres – nearly double the total of the current world's largest indoor snow area at SnowWorld Landgraaf in the Netherlands. It would be able to accommodate up to 3000 skiers and boarders at any one time and has already its own piste map. Indoor temperatures would be maintained at -1C
There will be six indoor runs, two easy blues, two steeper reds and two blacks – totalling just over 3km of runs. All indoor runs will be 740m long and 32m wide, the easy runs covering 42m of vertical, the moderate runs 67m of vertical and the steepest runs 92m of vertical. There'll be six indoor and two outdoor lifts and a travelator. The longest indoor run at present, around 600m in length, is the Amneville Ski Hall in France.
In a similar move to the recently opened indoor/outdoor ski slope in Lithuania, there would also be two outdoor black runs, 48m long and 800m long.
Other facilities will include a terrain park with quarter pipe, rails and kickers and off slope there would be shops, changing and bathing facilities, a hotel and restaurants including one offering spectacular views from the top of the structure.
An online movie of the project is viewable at:
The company behind Ski Dome Denmark, DanSki (danski.dk) and a Danish ski travel agency. They say they are working in partnership with skiwear brand SOS and the French ski resort Alpe d'Huez. The trail names have Alpe d'Huez associations like 'Mini Sarenne.'
Other planned slopes longer and larger than the current existing biggest buildings include proposed 1km long slopes in China from the company that runs the Beijing snowdome, a proposed 2km long slope in the United Arab Emirates and a 700m long slope proposed for Moscow. None of those were built.