Exhibition: Public Air Copenhagen. By Philippe Rahm architectes & Frans Drewniak
Public Air Copenhagen is an exhibition by Frans Drewniak and Philippe Rahm Architectes and presents some of the findings of their joint Public Air project in Copenhagen that analyses the Green Bicycle Network with regard to comfort in public space.
About the project:
The “Public Air” project for the City of Copenhagen aims to rethink the formal and technological heritage of the 20th century in favor of new physiological criteria, to mitigate the air and noise pollution brought on by automobiles and industrial processes. [...]
Soil, façade material, street furniture, street layout and orientation, air, light, sound, and smell are elements that can be specifically implemented to create a more comfortable city air quality, noise threshold, and atmospheric temperature, in the cold climate of northern Europe. Our goal is to provide a comfortable street network and atmospheric quality for cyclists, that protects them from cold winds, utilizes light to simulate the warmth of the Sun, and minimizes air and noise pollution.
In a way, the new street, a public space, will have the comfort and quality of life – specifically, heat, clean air, silence – that are usually exclusive to private space in a house or the inside of a car. To optimize the comfort of pedestrians and cyclists, we are offering research and ideation toward conceiving a new street layout, construction, building orientation, and material usage. To do so, we have analyzed each physical component of the proposed Green Bike Network according to the following criterias:
• NO COLD measures
• NO NOISE measures
• NO POLLUTION measures
Any given combination of the Cold, Noise and Pollution measures could be applied to new bike routes. But in the 3 project testbeds; Rentemestervej, Skelbækgade & Ved Amagerbanen we have focused on each of the measures to highlight the practical potentials of the research applied.
You can find a more thorough description of the project at BAUEN.
Hear also Philippe Rahm's lecture at KADK on 16 April, 2015.
