Urban Contingency - 2019 - Sea level rise on Bakklandet

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Figure 19: Example of open green space design on Bakklandet (before and after). Source: Authors.

Through the analysis of various flood mitigation examples, focusing on cases from the Netherlands and Japan, as well as an analysis of Bakklandet`s contexts, we specified interventions that suit our case. Specific implications of the importance of maintaining the visual style of Bakklandet`s architecture, considerably lower the spectrum of available choices of anti-flood interventions. In addition to that, the sole structure itself, even today, battles with unsure ground foundations, being built, in large part, on top of areas diagnosed with high and medium levels of quick-clay danger (Trondheim kommune, 2019b). As explained in the theory part before, quick clay danger is correlated with a physical stress on the clay layer underneath Page 30 of 36


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