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Group 7/ Niels Christian Mariager Pedersen, WEEK ONE Kristi Mørch, Rebecca Sparr, Gitte Adler
The vein of life
Owerview of the town model showing the canal flow, different densities, and the industrial and historical structures.
The aim is to strengthen the identity of Frederiksværk through better connections between the existing qualities and make it more attractive for citizens and tourists.
life in Frederiksværk.
Our problemformulation is as folows:
To answere this question we have identified 3 issues:
How can Frederiksværk appear as a whole embracing its various surroundings, citizens, history and future?
The Concept
The canal is the vein of Frederiksværk. Its flow creates life and connections to the whole city. It represents the history and the future of
How can the canal in Frederiksværk be improved for it to function as the core combining the whole town, its history and future?
Issue 1: Need of a Center? Issue 2: Open up the Canal Issue 3: Find Hotspots
SWOT analyse
Strengths: the hilly terrain, the forest, the wetland, the fields the water (arresø, roskilde fjord, kattegat), the canal, the industrial history, the working-class culture, a romantic village, the city has a fragile look while the industrial history has a rough character – they enhance each other by the contrast. Weaknesses: no city center, frag-
menting infrastructure, many cars, many parking lots, cheap buildings, bad connections, high level of low educated and elderly people Opportunities: promote bicycle culture, parking -> spaces creating identity, urban outdoor life along the canal, city branding: sell the story to tourist and resourced people, historical route connecting the whole city, no center -> mixed areas with potential Threats: locals will not approve/ respect fewer cars, strong mental judgment of Frederiksværk as a city with few resources
Conclusion to the swot analyse: Less looking at the problems, more looking at the potentials; enhance existing qualities, the local potential. Frederiksværk has 4 main qualities: 1)Various nature characteristics 2)Hilly terrain 3)Industrial history 4)Water in the city
Issue 2 // The Canal Potentials of the canal:
It is a trademark creating identity: „venice of the north“ City structuring element for orientation
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describe, where it flows through; New experience of the water – through landscape architectural intervention Create attractive small intimate spaces with different qualities along the canal Barrier-free: Improvement of public access through stairs, floating/ swimming elements, furniture, etc. Better visibility of the accesses. Make it more recognizable through a consistent design; Consistent experience/corporate design: furniture, lighning – identity ( industrial/ steel) Lots of usage possibilities Meeting of : nature, history, leisure, culture, calmness
“Fuga. Et voloratusda et voluptios quis” Provide a system of pedestrian- and cycle paths Creates activities for tourists Creates recreation for the inhabitants
The calnal is rised above ground level with a bridge surrounding it.
Environmental goods like storm water management ect.
The water windes through the camping area.
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Group 7 WEEK TWO
Canalizing Frederiksværk
Model picture: The proposal uses the shape of the existing canal as a frame and adds various parallel arms as an overall grid.
How can the canal in Frederiksværk be improved for it to function as the core combining the whole town, its history and future? Our main focus is the canal as a frame around the city. At the same time, the canal is the main vein of potential that leads urban development through various sub veins to all parts of Frederiksværk. The flow of the canal creates life and connections to the whole city, because it represents the history and the future of life in Frederiksværk.
“The edge defines the centre. The centre defines the edge” (Peter Hansen)
Design reflections concerning the canal
The canal is seen as a strong site specific quality that is determining for the main structure of the new design. The existing rectangular canal and the new parallel arms in a 45° angle create a frame of openings and doors towards the many more or less hidden qualities in Frederiksværk (e.g. the sea/forest/wetlands etc.). In this way, the canal sets the agenda for how we organize the spaces surrounding it. The parallel tree rows are a robust main concept due to the unlimited flexibility its simplicity offers. The overall grid is broken into several hotspots and clearings of various experiences.
of a water fall close to the plaza. Another consideration is to open up the canal to enable a closer contact to the water.
Hotspot No. 2 // The Urban Forest Hotspots
Hotspot No. 1 // The Waterfall The main problem in this area is the road, which is cutting through the canal frame and divides it into two parts. As a connecting element, the forest is dragged in from the surrounding hills towards existing green structures (e.g. the English Garden). The vegetation further serves to screen off the traffic. In order to slow down the traffic, the road is transformed into a shared space for cars, bicycles and pedestrians. Another design intervention to camouflage the traffic noise is the implementation
The forest surrounding the highschool is redesigned according to the main concept of parallel rows creating an urban forest connecting the existing forest with the school, the canal and the city life. A bridge over the canal towards the museum underlines the strong connection between the school and the commercial areas on the other side of the canal. We still need to consider: Places to stay (benches, music, Wifi etc.). How to drag the canal in to the forest to maximize the contact with the water. Will the urban forest be a new central point in the town structure? Combining it with story telling? Does it make sense to
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Hotspot No. 3 // Along The Old Houses
Creating better accesses to the water through working with wooden decks (which are already there), remove some vegetation and provide lawns/seatings facing the canal.
Hotspot No. 4 // Water/ Terrain Playground for Children and Grown Ups
Create a public space/playground, drag in the water and connecting it to the hills through green structures.
Further reflections
Sensation of water in different ways as a main topic. Acustically: the sound of water; e.g. lifting it and letting it down to create sounds (waterfalls, etc.). Visually, feeling/ touching, access to the water: over (bridge), at the water (deck), next to the water (path). Connection with stormwater management. „The vein“: keeping the city alive, connecting the parts, giving an overview over the whole structure/the canal, connecting different qualities in form of: towers, bridges, cable line, variation in usage, heights, width, forms, etc.Material: Robust. Steel – not necessar-
Visualisation - Hotspot No. 2: wooden deck providing a close experience of the water
Overall grid | Connection between hotspot 1 and 2 | Hotspot 2 and its relations to its surrounding
“We want to hold them for a while inside our defuse centre” (Peter Hansen) ily rusted, maybe dark steel. What is already there/what is local? What works with water? A bicycle/pedestrian route around the canal A path with different information points (historical, etc.) Questions: Where do the arms start and end? Protected area close to the museum? Terrain: Where does the water go? Zoning in urban/nature/etc.?
Tree lines, pavings and water creating a connecting coherent axes
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Section: Hotspot No. 4 - enhancing the presence of the water
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Group 7 WEEK THREE
The Path of Frederiksværk
The Path of Frederiksværk will provide a coherent perception of a whole town through few, simple and sunbtile interventiones.
Frederiksværk provides over several valuable qualities. However, they do not exploit their full potential due to a lack of connection and orientation in the city. ‘The Path of Frederiksværk’ connects these qualities and guides its visitors on a way full of different experiences through the town. Our problem formulation is “How can the various qualities of Frederiksværk be connected in order to create a coherent perception of a whole town?” Our approach to establish this connection is to invent a path system – “The path of Frederiksværk”.
Concept of the Path
The path provides space for the slower forms of locomotion such as pedestrians, runners and cyclists. It leads its everyday users and visitors through the city, touching the many different quali-
ties of Frederiksværk and offering a variety of experiences of history, culture, leisure, nature and activity while following it. The path of Frederiksværk offers its visitors new experiences of their own city, as it is leading them to possibly unknown and unexpected spaces. The experiences on the path allow them to see their city with totally new eyes. Following the principle “The journey is the reward”, it is not only about reaching certain destinations in the city, but also about experiencing the way itself by keeping the curiosity up of where it leads one further. The path is touching different points of interest all over the city and provides the possibility to hop on and off once in a while when needed. It guides its visitors on a save trip and makes navigating in the city easier, which is beneficial both for citizens in their everyday life as well as for tourist.
Design process and method
We determined the course of the path in the following steps: - Investigate important elements and qualities of Frederiksværk in the fields of history, activity, culture, leisure, nature and services - Starting by using the form of the canal as a frame of organizing and connecting the elements - Loosen up the strict form by developing it further: drawing the path away from existing infrastructure and branching it out into different directions - Criteria: logical sequences of important elements (such as train station – school), a balance between short distances and providing special experiences away from traditional routes, away from traffic - Analysis of movement: finding hidden paths and shortcuts - where do people actually want to go and
where is a lack of connection?
Near the English Garden: Informal path reveals need of a shortcut
Design of the path
The path is a route through the city, which is branching out into different directions, having a strong east – west direction from the lake Arresø to the Roskilde Fjord. Along the path, various points of interest of the city are stringed in form of buildings, urban spaces, parks, viewpoints, landmarks, etc. The path has different characteristics and appears in various forms. It can at one point be a broad path next to the canal with space for pedestrians
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First draft towards characterizing different experiences along the Path
and cyclist, but it can also appear as an elevated narrow path leading through a dense forest structure. As it goes along, it changes its shape and orientation adapted to the respective zone and purpose. The individual zones and points of interests are not fully developed yet. Some examples of points of interest in the different zones are as follows: - Nature: forest hills, forest walk, the urban forest, the wetland, the fjord, the lake - History: workers houses, viewpoints to the steel industry - Sport/Activity: tennis courts, running track - Culture: Gunpowder area, Gjethouse - Urban: Café Zone at the canal - Services: Town Hall, pedestrian zone. The path appears as a whole through its coherent design, which is further adapted to each zone it is flowing through. The choice of material fulfils the criteria: robust, down to earth and natural.
Further steps
In the following week, we will define the zones of the path and determine the single points of interest in detail. We will further come to decisions concerning the detailed design of selected areas.
References
Cap de Creus - Catalonia Green Cycle Route - Copenhagen
The visualisation is on its way...
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The activating Path
Fig 1: The path on a wooden deck along the axis towards the fjord
Frederiksværk provides over several valuable qualities. However, they do not exploit their full potential due to a lack of connection and orientation in the city. The activating path of Frederiksværk connects these qualities and guides its visitors on a way full of different experiences through the city. The path provides space for the slower forms of locomotion such as pedestrians, runners and cyclists. It leads its visitors through the city, touching the many different qualities of Frederiksværk and offering a variety of experiences of history, culture, nature, recreation and activity while following it along. The path of Frederiksværk offers its visitors new experiences of their own city, as it is leading them to possibly unknown and unexpected spaces. The experiences on the path allow them to see their city with to-
tally new eyes. Following the principle “The journey is the reward”, it is not only about reaching certain destinations in the city, but also about experiencing the way itself. The path is passing through different zones and touching various landmarks all over the city (Fig 5). It provides the possibility to hop on and off once in a while when needed. It guides its visitors on a save trip and makes navigating in the city easier, which is beneficial both for citizens in their everyday life as well as for tourist.
Design Concept
Our concept is to work with very small and simple methods. The idea is to design an attractive and easy path system, which is activating the zones it is passing through and therefore underlines the hidden existing qualities of Frederiksværk (Fig 4). The path is a route through the
city, which consists of the main loop in the centre and of arms spreading out in different directions (Fig 3). The arms can be categorized into nature- and service arms: they are connecting the forest and the wetland to the city (nature), as well as the town hall, the train station and the Gjethouse (service). The loop lies along the axis, which connects the lake Arresø to the Roskilde Fjord. Meeting points pop up at each corner of the loop: the church square, the activity plaza towards the fjord, the urban forest meeting and the plaza in front of the mall. The loop and the service arms are laid out for the everyday life of the citizens of Frederiksværk. It makes getting around in the city easier and connects important functions and services such as the high school and the shopping mall. The nature arms and the lake-fjord-axis are rather used for recreation on weekends.
Design of the Path
The path is meandering through the city and is characterized by straight and geometric forms. This approach supports the wish of giving Frederiksværk a more urban look. The path is on the one hand a very subtle intervention and stands on the other hand out as a specially designed unit in itself. That the path doesn’t appear in parallel lines supports its unique character and it simultaneously keeps the curiosity up of where it leads one further. However, in this paper, there is incoherence in language of shapes between the visualisations and the plan. The visualisations show curved shapes, as they we’re produced in an earlier stage of our design process (Fig 1 and Fig 2). They will be adapted in further steps. A three-tier hierarchy further characterizes the design of the path: + Type 1 - main roads (e.g. the
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Fig 2: The path through the English Garden
Fig 3: Subdivisions of the path: the main loop and its arms
loop): concrete + Type 2 - secondary pathways: black gravel (e.g. in the English Garden) + Type 3 - tertiary pathways: wooden decks (e.g. in the wetland) To give the path a signature and to support its coherent design, elements of corten steel appear along the way. It appears in different forms such as a rail in the forest, signs to highlight landmarks, a transition line between materials or a swale for stormwater.
Further Steps
+ Assign the different parts of the path to the path types + Zoom in - Detailed planning in CAD + Design interventions at the meeting points (the church square, the activity plaza towards the fjord, etc.) + Further develop path-map with its different zones and landmarks, so that it can be used as a guide through the city or citizens and tourists Zone Forest Hill English Garden Wetland Urban Forest Canal Avenue Library Plaza Gunpoweder Area Strandgade Industrial Harbour
Landmark Plattform Skjoldborg House Viewpoint Raised Path Pittoresque Facades Library Gunpowder Museum Workers Houses Former Industry Building
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Fig 4: The path is activating the hidden potentials of the city
Fig 5: Extract of the categorization of the different types, zones and landmarks along the path: table and diagram By Gitte Adler, Kristi Mørch, Niels Christian Mariager Pedersen and Rebecca Sparr