Strategic Interventions

Strategic Intervention

My strategic intervention at Duedalen in Trondheim is two proposals based on fieldwork studies of the area, and the following problem statement: “How to increase activity in the valley, while maintaining its qualities as a green urban area, according to the interest of stakeholders”

Through observations, SWOT-analysis, research of history, development, and interviews with people in the area, this initial problem statement has corresponded to the interest of the stakeholders. From surveys with residents living in the area, as well as regular users and bypassers, the majority wanted to preserve the qualities of the area without too much physical intervention in the landscape, which should also be avoided due to risk of landslide.

The motorcycle club which uses the bomb-shelter in the mountainside have a rental contract with Trondheim municipality until 2022, which can be renewed before then. According to feedback from residents in the area, they keep mostly to themselves inside the shelter, or on a bench placed outside, and will therefore not affect the strategic intervention. Hopefully, development of the area could make the outdoors area more attractive for them as well.

In this section of the project, I will present two proposals for spatial intervention which could provide positive development of the area, and hopefully more activity. The solutions are based on stakeholder demands for benches and several suggestions for making an activity park.

These strategic interventions are also designed so they can be used throughout the year, with consideration of the different activities going on there today, depending on the change of seasons.

Situation map 1: 2 000, Location of the two interventions

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Figure 14. Situation map duedalen, with interventions

1. Seating through the seasons

Providing benches would meet the demands for seating and could increase the rate of people stopping and spending time in the area, instead of just walking through.

Placing a bench-structure near the football-court in the middle of the valley, could provide seating for watching football-games in summer, and for putting on ice-skates when the court is turned into an ice-rink in the wintertime. Benches could also preserve the grass as an alternative place to sit

ILLUSTRATION UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Figure 15. Collage illustration of seating

2. Outdoors workout

Today the area is often used by joggers as a part of their running route. Especially the staircase in the western part of the valley, which is popular for running exercises.

Implementation of outdoors exercise-equipment such as pullup-bars could potentially bring more people to Duedalen, and facilitate outdoors workout sessions.

ILLUSTRATION UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Figure 16. Collage illustration of outdoors workout-installations