Copenhagen's First Climate Resilient Neighbourhood
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COPENHAgen’s First CLIMATE RESILIENT NEIGHBOURHOOD 2th edition, February 2016 CONTENTS ”We need to make Copenhagen more resilient to future cloudbursts. This will require new ideas and solutions, so we COPENHAgen’s FIRST CLIMATE RESILIENT NEIGHBOURHOOD 5 can use rainwater to create new recrea- WHY CLIMATE ADAPTATION? 7 tional urban spaces. We need to have less GREENER STREETS AND IMPROVED URBAN SPACES 9 asphalt and more green spaces. That is TÅSINGE PLADS - GREEN OASIS AND LOCAL MEETING POINT 11 exactly what is characteristic of the pro- jects in The Climate Resilient Neighbour- SKT. KJELDS PLADS - THE GREEN HEART OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 13 hood of Østerbro. It’s a great inspiration BRYGGERVangen - ”THE GREEN Corridor” 15 for the rest of the city and the world.” CLOUDBURST ROADS - GREEN STREETS 17 FUTURE COURTYARDS 19 Morten Kabell CLIMATE RESILIENT BLOCK 21 Mayor for Technical and Environmental Affairs THE Citizens’ oWN CLIMATE PROJECTS 23 THE CLIMATE RESILIENT NEIGHBOURHOOD - GREEN NEIGHBOURHOOD IDENTITY 25 MAP OF CLIMATE RESILIENT NEIGHBOURHOOD 26-27 LIST OF PROJECTS 28-29 LIST OF RESIDENTS’ PROJECTS 30-31 2 3 COPENHAgen’s First CLIMATE RESILIENT NEIGHBOURHOOD Green streets, green urban squares, and the first climate adaptation projects are cloudburst streets that diverts rainwater progressing from vision to reality. away from the neighbourhood, these are ways in which we can avoid water Check out our website klimakvarter.dk damages when extreme rainfall events for more information about the projects or cloudbursts occur. This is the vision in the neighbourhood. for Copenhagen’s first Climate Resilient Neighbourhood. THE CLIMATE RESILIENT NEIGHBOURHOOD In this publication you can read more about the Østerbro Climate Resilient Neighbourhood. You can read about the visions for a coherent, green and climate- adapted neighbourhood, see the project drawings and find information about how INTRODUKTION • Visualization of the future Skt. Kjelds Plads 02 Visualization: SLA Sommerscenarie på Skt Kjelds Plads: Boboerne fra boligkarréen har rykket børnefødselsdagen ud i solen og børnene leger i bakkerne. 11 4 5 WHY CLIMATE ADAPTATION? The climate is changing. We expect Instead of expanding the sewer sys- around 30% heavier rain in the future. At tem the City of Copenhagen therefore the same time, we will experience more wishes to future-proof the city with green extreme rainfall events, like the ones climate change adaptation solutions at Copenhagen has experienced in recent street level. summers. The projects are to lead the rainwater The sewers are unable to cope with the away from streets, homes and basements large volumes of rainwater. We are there- when the cloudbursts occurs, but they fore experiencing sewers overflowing, are also intended to create lush and which leads to great loss and costs for attractive urban spaces to be enjoyed the citizens of Copenhagen. by the people of Copenhagen when the weather is dry. We call these solutions Enlarging the sewer system by conven- ‘green’ and ‘blue’ solutions. tional solutions is expensive and it would cause construction works for a large These solutions are cheaper, easier and part of the city for decades without any more flexible than conventional solutions. further benefits. The green and blue solutions are to disconnect 30% of the rainwater from the sewers in The Climate Resilient • Climate change adaptation is a Neighbourhood. matter of making Copenhagen more resilient to the heavier rainfall in the future. Photograph: Scanpix 6 7 270,000 m2 The area of roads today. Today the streets in The Climate Resilient Neighbourhood are far wider than neccessary to manage the local 8.000 m2 8.000 I DAG OVERFLADE GREENER STREETS traffic. AND IMPROVED URBAN SPACE 270.000m2 50.000m2 220.000m2 In the following years to come Copen- We are using the opportunities of the hagen will experience big changes due to wide streets and proposing that 20% of 16.500 m2 I MORGEN OVERFLADE 50,000 m2 climate change adaptation projects. In The the asphalted areas in the neighbourhood of green space can be created, if Climate Resilient Neighbourhood we are become green spaces that can be used we arrange the streets according taking the first steps. Østerbro Climate for storm water management. In that to present standards, where there Resilient Neighbourhood shows how a way urban quality is also improved. The is traffic in both directions and district is equipped to deal with the in- target is for 30% of the everyday rain to 8.000 m2 8.000 I DAG OVERFLADE the same number of parking lots. By doing this we will enhance the creased water volumes in the future, and be managed locally on surface in order to urban life. at the same time shows how to create prevent pressure on the sewers. better conditions for local urban life. This vision is on the way to becoming 270.000m2 50.000m2 220.000m2 Our work is based on a green vision reality. With a focus on the water through made by Tredje Natur. A vision repre- the neighbourhood, the urban spaces, 206% Byrumsflade optimeret med sented at The Venice Biennale 2016. streets and courtyards are all connected. In that way we ensure that rain that falls We are creating a green living district in the neighbourhood can flow through 16.500 m2 I MORGEN OVERFLADE in a neighbourhood with old and worn the various projects. The water which x2 Improved urban out streets with large asphalt surfaces can’t infiltrate through the ground will space without any function. A neighbourhood have an outlet to the next system. In that way we create space for that literally has space for improvement, green corridors,trees, gardens and lush urban spaces. Without as it was originally laid out for wide and This approach is unique and a model for reducing the amount of parking green avenues. But the trees were never climate change adaptation solutions in lots. planted, therefore the wide streets appear the rest of Copenhagen and the rest of empty. the world. The Climate Resilient Neigh- bourhood has won several international The winning concept: 1/5 of the road is trans- prizes, and recently the City of New York formed from asphalt to green space. From has implemented the concept. 270.000m2 50.000m2 220.000m2 the Europan competition 2012, illustration 206% Byrumsflade optimeret med from the master plan for The Climate 8 Resilient Neighbourhood. 9 Illustration: Tredje Natur. x2 TÅSINGE PLADS GREEN OASIS AND LOCAL MEETING POINT Tåsinge Plads is Copenhagen’s first The square is centrally located in The Cli- climate change-adapted urban space. It mate Resilient Neighbourhood, and it has was officially opened in December 2014. become a green oasis and a new meeting The square has been created as part of point for the inhabitants. Where there Sharing Copenhagen, where Copenhagen used to be a large asphalt area, there as the European Green Capital presented is now a large green area with water the best solutions to future environmen- activities and a sunny slope. Altogether tal and climate challenges. more than 1.000 m2 of asphalt has been greened, with more than 50 new trees, The square responds to a need for rain- reused cobblestones and granite stones. water management and it is at the same time an investment in a better urban life. The shops in the building of Solgården were previously hidden behind rows of parked cars. But today it is possible to see the shops from the new vibrant square. The residents around the square take part in a residents’ association which will Tåsinge Plads after the transformation. form activities on the square in the future. Constructed by Malmos and designed by GHB. Orbicon and ViaTrafik as consulting engineers. Photograph: Charlotte Brøndum • Tåsinge Plads before the transformation. 10 11 SKT. KJELDS PLADS THE GREEN HEART OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Skt. Kjelds Plads is a large roundabout, allowed to spread to a greater extent and which serves as a traffical centre in the become the special characteristic feature neighbourhood. Here the roads meet in of the square. a roundabout with trees. The roundabout is 13 metres wide. Today many cars drive Because of its central location and enor- too fast, why residents are cut off from mous size of 8,000 m2, Skt. Kjelds Plads using the green space in the middle of the has potential to set an example for how square. we adapt our urban spaces to climate change in Copenhagen. It should serve Our vision is to transform Skt. Kjelds as an inspiration at home and abroad, Plads into a living green urban space with and give the neighbourhood a new green room for nature, insects and butterflies character. but most important a space for residents in the neighbourhood. There still has to The square is designed by SLA Architects be space for traffic, but nature has to be in cooperation with ALECTIA, and is expected to be completed by the spring of 2018. A local monitoring group of residents and businesses is following the project closely, and is in dialogue with the architects on the design of the project. Visualization of the future Skt. Kjelds Plads. INTRODUKTION Visualization: SLA • Skt. Kjelds Plads before the 02 transformation. Efterårsscenarie på Skt Kjelds Plads: 3.A fra Kildevældsskolen har temadag om bynatur og er ude og plante træer på pladsen med studerende fra KU Life 13 12 13 • Bryggervangen today BRYGGERVANGEN ”The green corridor” The vision for Bryggervangen is to cre- green spaces, and in this way enhance the ate a “green corridor” - a continuous urban picture. green space that links Fælledparken and Kildevældsparken and acts as a infiltra- We will arrange the street of Bryggervan- tion and detention area for rainwater. We gen more effectively, so there is space took the first steps in transforming Bryg- for urban life rather than cars.