Aviapolis Frame Plan Starting Point and Objectives City Planning Board 18 August 2014
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Aviapolis Frame Plan Starting Point and Objectives City Planning Board 18 August 2014 Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives 1 Published by The City of Vantaa City Planning Aviapolis Work Group: Director of City Planning Tarja Laine Head of Master Planning Mari Siivola Architect Merja Häsänen Landscape Architect Anne Mäkynen Town Planner Joni Heikkola Town Planner Sakari Jäppinen Communications Planner Ritva-Leena Kujala ([email protected]) 2 Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives Contents Vision 4 Introduction 5 Frame Plan Area 6 Starting Points for the Frame Plan Work 7 The Helsinki Region Will Evolve from a Major City into a Metropolis 8 Aviapolis Will Be Located at the Junction of Traffic Flows 9 The Area Will Offer Best Possible Accessibility 10 Large and Spacious City Structure, Full of Possibility 11 Finding Gems amongst Halls and Warehouses 12 Vast Asphalt Surfaces and Lack of Parks, the Cause of City Flooding 13 Environmental Disturbances, a Challenge for Planning 14 Aviapolis Planning Objectives 15 From a City of Vehicles to a City of Walkable Distances, Comfort and Unhurried Lingering 16 Building an Ecologically and Culturally Sustainable City 17 Making Sustainable Forms of Travel Competitive and Creating Innovative Mobility Solutions 18 Enabling the Location of 60 000 Jobs in the Area 19 Providing 20 000 Vantaa Residents with a District in Which to Live and Reside 20 Making Aviapolis a City Where People Come From Near and Far 21 Schedule and Communications 22 Frame Plan Complete in Autumn 2015 22 Inclusive Work and Communication 23 The Story of Aviapolis 24 Aviapolis City, tourist map 2050 25 Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives 3 Vision The vision of the frame plan is a lucrative and sustainable city of opportunities. With sound city planning, we will make Aviapolis an airport city that is active 24 hours a day. 4 Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives Introduction Aviapolis is an international working-place area with the strongest growth in the region. The City of Vantaa is committed to its development. During the future decades, the centre of Aviapolis will rise alongside the Airport and in connection with the new Aviapolis Station of the Ring Rail Line and the centre of Pakkala in Veromies. In order to ensure growth and development, a master-plan defining, town-planning and project-steering frame plan for the area will be prepared in cooperation with the area stakeholders and various industries of the City. The work has reached its objective-setting stage. This material covers the starting points and objectives of the planning per topic. The entire frame-plan work will be completed in 2015. Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives 5 Frame Plan Area The area that is subject to planning is the district of Veromies, which is located south of the Airport and tucked between Ring Road III and Tuusulanväylä. Starting Points of the Frame Plan Work • The Helsinki region will evolve from a major city into a metropolis • Aviapolis will be located at the junction of traffic flows • The area will offer best possible accessibility • Large and spacious city structure, full of possibility • Finding gems amongst halls and warehouses • Vast asphalt surfaces and lack of parks, the cause of city flooding • Environmental disturbances, a challenge to the planning The Helsinki Region Will Evolve from a Major City into a Metropolis During the next 35 years, the Helsinki region is estimated to see an increase of 600 000 new residents, which would result in a total of 2 million residents in the capital region in 2050. A prerequisite for strong population growth is positive employment development. According to the latest predictions, Helsinki should boast more than a million jobs in 2050, which would mean more than 300 000 generated new jobs in just over 35 years. In just 35 years, there will be 50% more people, bicycles, offices, shops as well as allotments in the region. Growth demands new space and closer proximity. From the region’s growth and change viewpoint, Aviapolis will be at the heart of the area and will be unique in the entire region, since Aviapolis will diversify and grow considerably faster than the rest of the capital region. The population of Helsinki 1/1-1980–2012 and the population-projection alternatives up to 2050. The development estimate for the number of workplaces in the Helsinki region (14 municipalities). 8 Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives Aviapolis Will Be Located at the Junction of Traffic Flows The location of Aviapolis at the junction of international, national and local traffic flows will be exceptional. The annual number of passengers at the Airport exceeded 10 million in 2000. Last year, there were already more than 15 million passengers who travelled through the Airport, and the growth is estimated to continue steadily, in particular the traffic to Asia. Ring Road III is part of Route E18, which runs from St. Petersburg to Belfast and is, consequently, the most important international road connection in our country. Ring Road III and Tuusulanväylä, both of which have undergone basic-improvement work, ensure fast access to the region as well as elsewhere in Finland. With the Ring Rail Line, there will also be an efficient railroad connection to the largest domestic cities from the frame-plan area. With the new stations and the cross-traffic bus trunk services, the region will become a junction for local traffic. AVIAPOLIS Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives 9 The Area Will Offer Best Possible Accessibility In areas with good accessibility, work places, services, shops and friends are easily Once the improvement work on Ring Road III is completed, it will be possible to reach and effortlessly reached with various forms of transport. The easier an area is the area by car within less than 30 minutes from anywhere in the capital region. accessed, the better possibilities it offers to companies and residents. According to HRT preliminary calculations, access to the area will be so good in 2025 that With the use of sustainable forms of transport, access to Aviapolis will improve as many as 2/3 of all journeys will be made using sustainable forms of transport. considerably with the opening of the Ring Rail Line. With the present traffic and land-use plans, access to Central Vantaa will, in fact, almost reach the level of the central city area of Helsinki. On the basis of the HRT Accessibility Models, access to Aviapolis with sustai- nable forms of transport will improve considerably within the next decade. In the inspections, the region has been divided into zones on the basis of accessibility, with zone I offering best accessibility. 10 Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives Large and Spacious City Structure, Full of Possibility The frame plan area is large: it covers a similar stretch of land as the area from Kaivopuisto to Hakaniemi in Helsinki. Indeed, the area will accommodate more than 250 traditional city blocks. The area has been built to a very large size: for instance, individual warehouses are larger than entire city blocks. Due to large block sizes and wide traffic lanes, the present structure does not offer prerequisites for walking or cycling. The present efficiency of the area is low. Only a few, relatively new office lots have an efficiency that is more than e = 1,0. Aviapolis and the central city area on the same scale: The warehouses in Veromies are the size of Helsinki city blocks. Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives 11 Finding Gems amongst Halls and Warehouses Huberin konepaja The oldest building stock in the area consists of modern construction heritage gems. The area mainly features logistics halls and warehouses of various ages and varying condi- tion, in which operations may continue for a long time yet. The temporary use of these buildings may act as a platform for positive city development and may generate new operations in the area, e.g., workspaces, concerts, cafeterias. During the past years, new and efficient office buildings have been constructed along the major roadways. The area has become one of the most coveted business areas in our country. Auramo Oy The area features modern construction heritage gems: • The Huber halls and engineering workshop, Kurt Simberg 1964 • Auramo Oy, Purpose of the Buildings Hannu Auramo and Valtteri Teerikangas 1964, 1970 • Wihuri Yhtymä, e.g. Hugo Smeds 1950-75 • Aerola, Alvar Aalto 1955 Wihuri Yhtymä Aerola 12 Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives Vast Asphalt Areas and Lack of Parks, the Cause of City Flooding The Airport and the northern part of the frame-plan area are located on a large brink-formation ridge, the groundwater of which is the origin of the streams that will cut through Aviapolis.Apart from the rocky parts, the land absorbs the rainwater well. The southern part of the frame-plan area is located on a large plain of clay where the absorption of rainwater is slow. In Veromies, there is city flooding in Manttaalitie and Äyritie due to the vast asphalt surfaces and hall buildings. The frame-plan area is at the seam of the scenery structure The streams of Central Vantaa and their run-offs Aviapolis Frame Plan − Starting Point and Objectives 13 Environmental Disturbances, a Challenge for Planning The excellent accessibility of the area has its downsides. Although the frame-plan area is not subject to strong aircraft noise, road-traffic and aircraft noise must be solved in the planning work. The present land use and landscape do little to prevent the spread of road-traffic noise. There are several facilities in the vicinity of the area (the Seveso Directive) that handle hazardous substances.