CITY | NATURE BORDER ON TEST. Amager and Nature Park Amager by Rikke Munck Petersen

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URBANISM STUDIO 2015 CITY | NATURE BORDER ON TEST AMAGER AND NATURE PARK AMAGER EXPOSED TO A STRATEGIC LANDSCAPE EXPLORATION

URBANISM STUDIO

URBANISM STUDIO 2015 CITY | NATURE BORDER ON TEST

AMAGER AND NATURE PARK AMAGER EXPOSED TO A STRATEGIC LANDSCAPE EXPLORATION

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COLOPHON Cource catalog Urbanism Studio 2015: Norman Heidötting Xirui Peng Frederik Angner Kar Kheng Gan Sif Peiter Lund Marie Nielsen Gerard William O’Connell Karin Eskebjerg Emilie Nørgaard Andersen Jon Palmgren-Simonsen Michala Kaja Krebs

Mathias Lieb Sophie Andrews Inge Hopps Corné Strootmann Jesper Hesselholdt Clelia Malekaki Nanna Maja Stubbe Østergaard Marta Warminska Peter Lange Troels Øgaard Madsen Hanna Grimsrud Husum

Amra Vehabovic Hanna Ancher Poulsen Ryan Wang Leonor Silvano Troels Bak Wahlgreen Jens Hansen Holm Oscar Frelin Inger Marie Helgasdatter Mulvad Julia Pichler Willa Caughey Bettina Erika Tógyer

Teachers: Rikke Munck Petersen: course responsible Jens Christian Pasgaard: teacher Ana Santini: teaching assistant Katrine Urth: teaching assistant Editor: Rikke Munck Petersen Design and layout: Katrine Urth, Jette Alsing Tryk: ISSUU.com

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Urbanism Studio draws on current research on urban green spaces, landscape analyses, strategic planning/design and sensoryaesthetic conception through sensory experience and exploration in media mediations and place-based potential development. We wish to thank Lars Jensen/SLETH; Martin Odgaard/Arhus School of Architecture, Taryn Humphrey/ IGN-UCPH, Claus Bohn/The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Ole H. Caspersen/IGN-UCPH, Ellen Braae/IGN-UCPH, Mads Farsø/IGN-UCPH for inspiring lectures and enthusiastic comments in critique sessions.

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CONTENT INTRODUCTION 6

THE PROJECTS EMBRACE THE EDGE BEYOND BORDERS

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CROSSING BORDERS

A WILD GROWING URBANISM

REVITALIZING THE BORDER

CONNECTING LANDSCAPES

BRIDGING SPACES

UNFOLDING AMAGER

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What if a plant and hydrological test center becomes a dynamic transition zone between Nature Park Amager and the city, testing the reaction of plants to shifting water levels as well as being a public and social reclamation learning center? How can military traces be the foundation for new sit- specific larger urban notes of city and park? And what if the shopping centre Fields is being opened up, and a new public main square across the highway becomes the new centre of Ă&#x2DC;restad interlinking Amager north to south, east to west? This catalogue presents strategic development and design proposals for citynature border conditions on Amager, Copenhagen. From November 2014 to February 2015, 33 students from eight countries with an equal number of foreign and Danish students explored possible solutions for new city-nature border conditions of Amager and Nature Park Amager all seeking to unfold the future potentials of Amager and Nature Park Amager both locally and in a greater Copenhagen city context.

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Urbanism Studio is a recurring and mandatory experimental design studio at University of Copenhagen (IGN-UCPH) Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture. Landscape Architect students are asked to utilize their distinctive professional approach, a landscape gaze on the city, space, time and lifestyle, to create urbanism.

This year the Urbanism Studio deals with the threshold between city and nature. The main focus lies on the borderline territory between city and nature. More specifically, it is the encounter between the urban fabric of Amager and the recently conceptualized Nature Park Amager that is exposed to a strategic landscape exploration. The Studio examines the mutual relations between the city and the park/harbour/sea. A primary concern is detecting unrealized strategic potentials – how can we increase the role of the Nature Park Amager as a key asset and strategic driver not just for Amager, but for Copenhagen as a whole? In the course, we have dealt with and undertaken a critical evaluation of the current discourses of ‘urban nature’, ‘green city’ and ‘(urban) biodiversity’. All these issues are closely linked to the very wide discussion of the sustainable city. The studio work leads to a number of strategic design proposals with specific design answers on how to make new transitions/interactions between Amager and Nature Park Amager. The proposals consider the city level, the building level, and the landscape level simultaneously. The proposals provide new infrastructural design solutions in relation to enhancing accessibility crosswise Amager. Further, we aimed at an extended focus on ‘spatial evolution’. This means that it is important that the students (in groups) present their strategic intervention(s) as evolving designs. The outcomes/results of the proposed strategic plans should not be presented as static design interventions (final outcomes), but rather as sequences of actions which channel the development in a certain direction. This means that it becomes important to work with time perspectives and spatial scenarios (possible desirable futures) – not just in relation to biodiversity, which is a key theme of the course, but also in relation to the urban space, very generally speaking. Besides that the greenery is changing, the urban frame is also changing: the building mass and its programming, the hard surfaces, the urban furniture, the use, the social life, the cultural code etc.

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This catalogue showcases the studio results, which have been developed utilizing research on the new appointed Nature Park Amager completed by the Section of Landscape Architecture and Planning and published in the two reports “Muligheder og indsatser. Naturpark Amager. Katalog” og ”Muligheder og indsatser. Naturpark Amager. Temarapporter”. The Nature Park Amager Project was founded by Nordea-Fonden and has been developed in close collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Nature Agency, By & Havn and the three municipalities involved: Copenhagen, Tårnby and Dragør. The catalogue contains a total of 8 projects addressing different types of interventions, covering various scale, typologies and themes. 33 students with an equal number of international and Danish students, working in groups of 4-5 people have developed their proposals through an eight-week period. Questions of strategic development and design proposals have been discussed in weekly critiques with invited guests. Additionally, students have been on at study trip to Berlin to study city-nature border conditions linked to the proactive concept of “Transformation und Stadt Wildnis”, pioneer plants growing into new city nature on former abandoned railway and industrial grounds and slowly taking over by people and becoming parts of the city’s public green structure. IGN-UCPH wishes with the course to explore development potentials enhancing new infrastructural design solutions on the city, the building and the landscape level in a strategic design approach.

Enjoy! Rikke Munck Petersen Course responsible, Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning

EMBRACE THE EDGE Matthias Lieb, Jon Palmgren-Salomonsson, Corné Strootman & Nanna Maj Stubbe Østergaard

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USE THE WHOLE BORDER OF THE PARK

DETAILED SITE ANALYSIS

DEFINE FOCUS SITES ALONG THE EDGE

PINPOINT EMPTY SPACES AND SITE SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES

EMBRACE THE EDGE

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WHAT WE THINK

WHAT WE WANT TO DO

HOW WE WANT TO DO IT

Part of the park’s biggest quality is the “sublime”, this quality should be appreciated and preserved.

Convey the transition from the urbanized area to the Nature Park in order to make the edge of the park more legible by making the transition more visible.

Identify complex entrance areas, places where a lot of different things are going on; intense infrastructure, different (clashing) functions and physical and/or sensory barriers.

A sharp and clearly defined edge is not a bad thing. Merging nature and urban areas is not the way to go, in fact, it makes some entrances to the park unrecognizable. The amount of entrances to the park is not the problem; the problem is their complexity, they are illegible. Many of the entrances contain a large amount of empty, undefined, spaces. The undefinedness of these spaces make the entrances illegible, without being an actual barrier. The area needs to cater to different usergroups. The different scales and types of transition zones do not prevent a common strategy, but the zones need to be used and communicated properly in order to function as an entrance rather than a barrier.

Work with the edge in an urban context, improving/highlighting some of the weaker entrance points to the park and make them more alluring and userfriendly. Attract recreationalists. Make a flexible plan with prioritized phases of development and interventions. Ensure that the park offers a varied set of experiences to its visitors while still keeping the feeling of “sublime”. Make the park easily accessible without riddling its edges with new entryways; improvement of current entrances and guidance to the Nature Park. Create awareness for the park; making the park more visible and engaging in the city environment while at the same time establish a common identity to recall upon.

Pinpoint the undefined spaces and use them to make the border and entrances more legible. Invoke people’s senses, make them experience the park outside the park; emphasize the edge by making it a ‘demoversion’ of the park. Emphasize the border instead of trying to hide it; to create a clear indication of what is park and what is not. Create different experiences through the different entrances. Combine common design principles and site specific design.

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VEGETATIONAL STRATEGY - change over time

Design elements

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All sites are designed using the same set of design principles; the use of structutal elements in corten steel (form and program are site specific) and planting surfaces with different structures and spatial qualities.

Site specific design - thick pioneering forest with space for reflection

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“The dynamically sublime is nature considered in an aesthetic judgment as might that has no dominion over us, and an object can create a fearfulness without being afraid of it” “the sublime is to be found in a formless object, represented by a boundlessness” Immanuel Kant in ‘Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime’

Site specific design - viewpoint from existing shooting hill

BEYOND BORDERS Troels Ã&#x2DC;gaard Madsen, Sophie Andrews, Jesper Hesselholdt, Marta Warminska & Hanna Grimsrud Husum

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Aerial overview

What is unique about Amager, is its vastness. Without a direction, there is no guide as to where to go to, and a lot of qualities are lost to people who dare not enter the park without a clear aim. This project aims to bring these qualities to the people who are hesitant to go cross the fence. It is sought to do this by implementing a number of key interventions down along the strip

that comes along immediately after the last metro stop on Vestamager. These interventions will bring a new entrance, a purpose, a range of interesting path systems, and an end destination. Along this process, various stages of human interaction with nature is explored, offering experiences with nature that has spaces for contemplation along the way. One of the interventions, a matrix of

fields, supplies a series of possible uses for scientific research in vegetation and their hydrological conditions. The outcome of this research might hopefully shed some light on which plants that do well under a certain climate, and it might also shed some light of what to expect, should climate conditions worsen, and the bodies of water exceed their boundaries.

The sea facilitates one of the main interventions, by preforating the border and elongating the line, we gain access to the water.

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Visualisation of the Research Facilities found at the North Cross.

The sea provides a sensory experience highlighting the sublime of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constant movement and change, while the pull of the sauna provides a pause, marking the end of a journey.

CROSSING BORDERS Inge Hopps, Clelia Malekaki, Peter Lange & Amra Vehabovic

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Focus point on the large urban structures

Light and movement at Ørestad area during night

The urban nature

Ørestad is a wedge that creates a border zone between Nature Park Amager and Sundby, a part of Amager. This wedge prevents ease of access to the Nature Park.

Ørestad is seen as a moon colony. An alien element landed on Earth

The major problem is that the three different areas of Ørestad, Nature Park and Amager have different identities and there is a lack of elements which grasp the contrast among them. Additionally we recognize several complex border situations.

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Open and empty space

Open and large scale

Linear predominance within the Nature Park

Amager Nature Park, one of the largest natural parks so close to a metropolis links together a number of natural attractions and offers a unique experience to its visitors and users.

Large open space and distance

Amager Nature Park has potential to provide an exciting recreational area for the citizens of Copenhagen. There are wide open spaces and wild animals, just a half-hour from City Hall Square.

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Sites of interest along the intervention bands

The “BANDS” is a design solution focusing on uniting Sundby with Ørestad and the Nature Park. Each one of the intervention bands, which are formatted as a result of the investigation of the spatial structure and important landmarks in the study areas anchors on three crucial points located in each area respectively. The points located in Sundby are developed as urban spaces, that intend on making the locals aware of the Nature Park and how they can access it. The points in Ørestad are located at or near the metro stations, which will act as access points to the Nature Park for people arriving by the metro. The points in the Nature Park offer recreational opportunities within the park. Overall, the bands are meant to create a common identity in an east-west direction as well as to make the connection between our areas of interest clear in both a mental and physical way. The mental connection is for the residents of Amager and Copenhagen, heightening the awareness of the Nature Park as a usable recreation area. The physical connection is a manifestation of the bands as elements in the urban fabric, tying the areas together. The proposed strategy integrates the Nature Park, Ørestad and West Sundby with a north-south Nature Route and east-west routes. Both routes highlight important characteristics and functions in order to attract people into the Nature Park.

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Design interventions along the band 3 (Sundby Station). The pictures follow the path with a starting point at Sundby Sports Park towards Amager Nature Park and deploys the space sequence and the changing views as a person walks along a street towards the Nature Park. This is achieved with the usage of light which is sequential switching and unfolds the townscape as one walks presenting a series of revelations.

Master plan, scale 1:1500

By employing urban interventions within the bands we achieve cohensive identity, neighborhood beautification and improved safety towards the Nature Park

A WILD GROWING URBANISM Hanna Ancher Poulsen, Ryan Wang, Leonor Silvano & Troels Bak Wahlgreen

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NEW STRATEGY FOR VESTAMAGER- 1. Vestamager a suburban enclave inside Amager. 2. An Undefined Suburb neighbouring up to a wilderness. 3. Strategy for a new wild growing urbanism in Vestamager.

Visualisation/Section showing the connecting street with its line of trees, drainage canals and green areas that invites the residents to open up their garden

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“Can the wilderness of nature provoke a new urbanism”? Inside the deep of Amager lies Vestamager Suburbia. It lies with no possibility to expand outwards pinched between the airport, the motorway and the Naturepark. The close relation to Naturepark Amager creates an interesting relation to a man-made wilderness which is unexplored inside the suburban landscape. It is a forgotten area with a car street as its main structure and with few inner public spaces. Vestamager Suburbia provides private houses and gardens for the residents but what if the street was a public space and a garden for the entire community? We want to strengthen Vestamager by reconfiguring the suburban structure with the use of a controlled suburban wilderness. The wilderness is taking inspiration in Naturpark Amager’s wet meadows, systems of drainage, forest zones and low maintenance ecology. This is done to create a stronger connection between the suburban area and the naturepark and to improve the everyday life of the local residents while providing management.

The streets are the site of the intervention, with the three streets, Ryumgårdvej, Ugandavej and Nøragermindesvej, going from Naturpark Amager into Vestamager as the pioneers in the growth of a new kind of urbanism. Over time the wilderness will grow out into smaller streets and connect to areas of public functions, enclosed green and rainwater flooding. The intervention consists of two elements: The Connecting street and the Green Square. The street is defined by green areas of domestic wilderness and a drainage canal to each side connecting to the gardens of the street and a line of trees using the species of the nearby gardens. By doing this we hope that people will open up their gardens and welcome this domestic wilderness. The Green Square is a meeting point for the area from where the intervention grows out into the smaller streets. The functions is as a public space for the locals and the occasional visitor. It appears as a great surface that spreads out between the drainage canals, a shared space for cars, bikers and pedestrians. Inside the surface different planting beds of tall grasses

can be approached and replanted by the locals. The neighbouring houses can over time be bought up and replaced with activity areas. Thereby the Green Squares become central points inside Vestamager. The integration of the controlled wilderness creates a new interesting situation in the urban area. The municipality is urged to use the streets as an occasion for a soft urban change where houses can be bought gradually to provide services for the residents and ideally a new ecological urbanism over time. We hope that the new friction between the urban and nature will function as a seed of inspiration for a different kind of urban transformation in Vestamager.

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REVITALIZING THE BORDER Jens Hansen Holm, Oskar Frelin, Inger Marie Helgasdatter Mulvad & Julia Pichler

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Faste Batteri

Military training zone

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Tømmerupstillingen Koklappe Batteri

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Military training zone

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What we want: raising awareness, strenghtening conncections and creating common grounds

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Nature Park Amager is not present in the minds of the residents of the region. The spine separates the eastern and western areas. It functions as a border but has the potential of being the place where all typologies meet. Today the spine seems as an empty and recreationally uninviting area and it is very monotonous. WHAT WE WANT It is the intent to make people aware of the quality of the park by framing the landscape and the historical aspects of the park. We want to find a decent way to make the eastern and western side of the spine meet by taking advantage of their contrasting characteristics. By making interventions in the spine, the eastern and western part of Amager will be experienced as a whole. HOW WE DO IT We want to activate the border by improving the spatial quality at specific intervention areas. By intervening spatially at specific areas on the spine we make it more intriguing to go along this way due to improved variation. Furthermore, the interventions shall serve the locals from both the eastern and western side of the line and be of both functional and spatial value. These are

the means to break down a border which is not just a physical border but especially a mental one. By identifying several intervention areas along The Spine we have highlighted areas where we think it is crucial to improve the open space. THE HISTORY OF THE SPINE The border where the spine is situated has a historical value. It has had the same location since before Vestamager was drained and has therefore since older times been the borderline that separates unused nature and the land cultivated and inhabited by man. Therefore this border should not only be seen as a disadvantage, but can on the contrary benefit from being emphasized by taking advantage of its qualities - both existing and historical. THE MILITARY BACKGROUND AS A DESIGN TOOL The area has a rich military history and we want to use the architectural language of the military in our design to reveal this historical layer. We use the architectural language of the old fortifications such as breastworks and moats to create spatial compositions along the spine. The earthworks are at the same time a reference to the dikes in the Nature Park as a reminder of the development of the landscape of Vestamager.

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FASTE BATTERI

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Faste batteri: The new viewpoint and protection from the street

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KLOKLAPPEBATTERI The intervention area Koklappebatteri is situated where the spine meets the entrance to the Nature Park. Various typologies meet in this area; Ørestad Syd, the single family houses and the Nature Park. The entrance to the Nature Park is currently situated at the north-eastern

corner at Otto Baches Allé in the crossing of the Spine. At the entrance point, the path splits into three directions: southwards via Kanalvej along the single family houses, southwest via Granatvej towards the Naturcenter Vestamager and westwards along the edge of Ørestad Syd via Kalvebod Sti.

The area was once part of Tømmerupstillingen, a defensive structure of barbed wire and foxholes stretching east-west across Amager from World War I. Where Naturcenter Vestamager is now situated, once was the Koklappebatteri; a canon battery bound to defend the southern front if the war was to reach Denmark.

VIEWS The earthwork is outlined by trees with occasional openings providing the visitor with different views of the Nature Park. The view provides orientation and prompts the visitors to further exploration of the Park.

TRANSITION The area will become a transition between two typologies; the Ørestad Syd and the single family housing. It will also become a transition to the Nature Park.

BETTER ORIENTATION We are suggesting a new movement by creating a sequence stretching southwards into the park. At the entry point of our intervention area, the Spine elevates onto an earthwork directing the movement past the Nature Centre, suggesting it as the main point of departure. Furthermore, we suggest a new building for the existing Nature Centre. The building design refers to the historical site by mimicking the former Koklappebatteri.

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CONNECTING LANDSCAPES Willa Caughey, Karin Eskebjerg, Norman Heidรถtting, Xirui Peng

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PROBLEM

Ugandavej lies at the heart of a 12,000-resident suburban community in Tårnby municipality. Although Ugandavej hosts the village’s school, shopping area and other culturally significant attractions, the street lacks cohesion and interest to become a vibrant center for local residents, or to accommodate an influx of visitors from Amager Nature Park. Six key areas are identified as sites for interventions to activate Ugandavej and connect the street to Amager Nature Park and the greater island of Amager. The design proposes to draw more attention to the gate by pointing out key areas with potential to strengthen the experience of being in and moving through Ugandavej for locals and visitors. Rather than attempt to create a new identity from scratch, we seek to build upon and enhance the existing assets and characteristics of the neighborhood that we have identified to create something more dynamic that the locals can relate to and visitors will be drawn to. We believe that focusing most on the needs of the locals, this project can draw visitors from the Øresund region and beyond, helping to strengthen the local economy and improve the richness and diversity of visitors’ experience of Amager Nature Park and the entire island.

Amager is an island divided, with Amager Nature Park to the west, development to the east, and a strong border zone between. ?

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Problems of access and struggles with identity are prevalent throughout the border zone. Because the border zone is so complex, it is difficult to find one solution that can be applied to the entire area. This project focuses on one area within the border zone.

Program Area

main roads

urban nature

border zone major movement routes

Tårnby municipality

airport

focus area agricultural character

Amager Nature Park

agricultural character

An early analysis of the border zone between the Nature Park and the rest of Amager reveals the potential to connect areas of similar character. Agricultural areas, shown in yellow, are unique to this part of Amager.

Ugandavej is the main east-west entrance to the Nature Park for Tårnby, and is thus an important street for the municipality and local residents.

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Amager Nature Park

Areas of intervention

Area 1 Nature Park Entrance

Area 3 Town Center

Area 2 Street Ends

The entrance gate to the park is not visible, and parked cars block the view. The nearby hills provide a viewpoint that is poorly integrated into the entrance and Nature Park.

Shops and institutions already draw in people from all over town and serve as the heart of the area. Rennovation is planned for Vestamager Centeret. Cars dominate the circulation of the area between the school and Vestamager Center.

Dead-end streets between municipallyowned parcels create under-utilized, dead spaces along Ugandavej.

Area 4 Uganda Forest

Area 5 Old Road

Area 6 Gadekæret

Ponds, paths, and openings provide reasons to visit, but there are few opportunities to linger. The forest’s close proximity to the school, Vestamager Centeret and housing present opportunities to engage more people.

And old town road provides an opportunity to diverge from Ugandavej and experience views from neighboring hills.

The historic Gadekæret, reminiscent of the town’s agricultural history, has potential to serve as a new gateway into the Nature Park. An under-utilized adjacent field provides opportunities for expansion.

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BRIDGING SPACES Fredrik Angner, Kar Kheng Gan, Sif Peiter Lund & Marie Nielsen

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Nature Park Amager

1. Project Area/

2. Main infrastructure

3. Infrastructural node

2. Mainconnection infrastructural connections

1. Project area/ Borderzone borderzone

3. Infrastructural node

5. Ørestad as starting point to 5. Ørestad potential activate theasborderzone

4. Functions and citystructures

4. Multifunctionality and new city structures

starting point

Activate Ørestad as a strategic infrastructural node to revitalize Nature Park Amager

Nature Park Amager Residential Commercial Retail

Metro station Hotel

Institutions

Fields Shopping Mall Nature comming into the urban

Ørestad Bypark Nature Park intervention

Urban structures going out to the nature

Nature Park intervention Metro

Intervention area

Residential area

Multiarena

Arenakvarteret Nature Park Amager

Nature Park Amager Transforms project

Functions in Ørestad

Areas

Important connections to strenghten

Connections to strengthen

Relate to other projects Relate to other projects in Ørestad

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Ă&#x2DC;restad Bypark

Nature Park Residential area

Multiarena

Activate outdoor Activate spaces to outdoor drag peopletoout spaces drag people out

People inside Fields People inside mall Fields shopping Shopping Mall

Connect to Connect to surrounding surrounding outdoor publicand spaces spaces natureand park nature park

structures UseUse structures andand elements elements to communicate tobetween communicate between large scale large scale and buildings andbuildings human scale human scale

Open up inward-facing Open up the inward facing building of Fields faceing building of Fields

Connect metro lineline to Connecting Metro Naturpark Amager through to Nature Amager activation of Park Fields Terrace through activation of Fields terrace

Activation of spaces

Step 1. Identify structures

Step 3. Superimposition

Step 4. Cut by connections

Step 2. Reading of typology

Step 5. The design

Dense/ Open

Large scale

Small scale

Concept and design principles

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Section A-a

c Master plan

The controverisal Ă&#x2DC;restaden, Copenhagens new city district, known for its intresting architecture, great infrastructure and complete lack of urban vibrance. Large scale buildings of high architectural quality and vast urban spaces of poor quality make up a fragmented landscape, right on the borderzone between old Amager and Amager Nature Park. With its ideal location, many functions and connectivity, the area has great untapped potential as a vibrant city node and a natural starting point for exploring the Nature Park. However, people keep inside due to inward-facing buildings with lack of interplay with their surroundings, leaving the outdoor spaces unactivated. Bridging spaces unleashes the untapped potentials of Ă&#x2DC;restaden and re-vitalizes it as a vibrant urban node. A natural starting point for exploring Amager Nature Park and also as a new interesting piece of urban fabric bridging the fragmented landscape of the borderzone together.

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Section A-a

Section B-b nts

Section C-c

Sections

UNFOLDING AMAGER Gerard William O’Connell, Bettina Erika Tógyer, Emilie Nørgaard Andersen & Michala Kaja Krebs

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Refshaleøen Nordre Toldbod

Holmen Nord

The Opera Nyhavn Knippelsbro Black Diamond

Prøvestenen

Bryggebroen

Bella Center M

Teglholmen Sluseholmen M

Airport park

The dump

new connection

Svenskeholm

Dragør Coast Kalvebodfælled

legend soft surface - vegetation

Aflandshage

Sydstrand

M = 1:60000

hard surface - asphalt, concrete, buildings water areas of context ferry line ferry stops context of existing and planned structures biking path

Master plan, 1:60 000

planned pathway intervention - structuring, framing intervention - orientations, contextualizing

metro stations metro and train lines

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The island of Amager is made up of a series of juxtaposing elements. These elements exist non-harmoniously in their own singular identity. Unfolding Amager works in a range of scales with the key ideas of connectivity and continuity used to link these entities and reveal Amager as the strong complementary element to Copenhagen it is. The projects approach is to deal with the island of Amager as a whole entity. The initial working phase focuses on strengthening the north-south connection between Refshaleøen and Sydstranden and also developing the west-east relations on land. The key points of departure for design focus on connection, navigation, within specific problem areas. This will be achieved through the use of four design principles drawn from a spatial investigation formed in the new connection area. The principles formed were; structural elements, surface treatments, framed views and both physical and visual connections. This investigation into the program of Unfolding Amager has been broken down into a series of focus areas.

From these areas we have chosen two to be illustrated in this document. These areas represent key sites with specific qualities and problems along the spine that will create an overall framework. The program of the framework can be implemented in site specific manors to each area highlighted through later phases of the master plan.

Concept unfold

Refshaleøen

The north entry

Bella center

West park

Circulation flow - CPH < >Amager

New connection

Entry to water

Entry to Nature Park

Dragør

Entry to birch forest

Sydstrand

Coast to coast connection from centerpoint

Green and blue connection Volume studies

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New connection. Plan axo diagram

The new connection is an area that we have identified as an important missing link in the spine of Amager. The main design focus works with and builds on qualities of the juxtaposing elements of the summer houses, the canal, Copenhagen Arena and the Nature Park. The area will become a strong connection space with the key intervention being a bridge physically connecting the housing area with Ă&#x2DC;restad over the canal. By this, the area will become a crucial node in the westeast connection in Amager. This connection is aided by a retrofit of two existing buildings at Metrovej 1 and the connected carpark. The buildings have been stripped back to structural skeletons and the facades turned into a series of sliding glass walls to allow a diversity of program. Creating the sense of openness will entice people through the divide created by the metro tracks. The associated parking area has been transformed into an urban forest designed to manipulate users field of view, drawing attention to the bridge over the canal. The amenity of the once hidden canal has been opened up to maximize user interaction along once again with the goal of highlighting the new

Poppel Plads. Section

New connection. Poppel Plads

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Sydstrand. Axiality

connection from the north-south biking route. The Sydstranden intervention is translating a special calm and quiet atmosphere of the site and on the other hand offers a building of facilities to the more active zone of the beach. The building at the southern end of the spine is overlooking the water attached to a pier. We propose a range in programs for the building to attract a wide range of users, from the water sports users to the Sunday day out users and the various communities located in the area. The more poetic layer of the Sydstranden intervention consists of a series of benches on the coastline and a shelter on the forest edge. The benches of solitude offer a reflective place to enjoy the open landscape and the special atmosphere. A new shelter located on the edge of the forest has been added. This shelter is a very simple wooden structure offering a place to stay for a night or just sanctuary. By framing the vistas of the area within the structure, the shelter draws people to it and creates an extraordinary experience with natural amenity of Sydstranden. Sydstranden is also well connected to the larger context of Copenhagen with the addition of a ferrystop.

Sydstrand. Plan axo diagram

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Sydstrand

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