How can we create better urban spaces for people? This thesis presents a detailing and a counterproposal to a section of an existing proposal from 2016 on turning a heavy traffic artery in Copenhagen upside down by burying the car traffic in a tunnel and releasing the creek that is currently piped underneath this street and creating a blue-green urban space at street level. The project strives to create a sensory balanced and versatile urban space accommodating multiple users and accentuating the local architectural context while ensuring cohesion between the city districts. Creating a local refuge for people.
Ågade is an urban motorway part of a heavy traffic artery penetrating Copenhagen. It is located in a residential area where around 62,000 cars are daily occupying the six driving lanes. This urban motorway is causing severe air and sound pollution and furthermore sensory overload at street level. Moreover, the endless stream of cars separates the city in two rather significantly and creates an incoherent city environment.
THESIS STATEMENT
This thesis will be based on scenario 2 from the preliminary analysis Omdannelse af Åboulevarden from 2016 by Copenhagen and Frederiksberg Municipality that gives a proposal to the conversion from urban motorway to The Green Boulevard.
As the future scenario only gives a diagrammatic proposal, this project will provide a detailed proposal on how to create the best possible urban space for people on a section of Ågade (fig x). Through spatial design, the thesis will focus on creating and strengthening:
- a physical and architectural cohesion of the two city districts Frederiksberg and Nørrebro
- an accentuation of the architectural context
- a sensory balanced urban interior that acts as a refuge for people
- an urban space that accommodates several different users
