POST-INDUSTRIAL PORT REDEVELOPMENT

MSc Graduation Project | Academic, Individual

Location Struer, Denmark

Year 2023

Supervisor Prof. Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange

(isgl@create.aau.dk)

In this project ”Post-industrial port redevelopment”, a suggestion of relinking the port to city and nature is presented. Creating a pedestrian promenade along the shoreline from the city to nature, this hereby also extends the experience of the harbour and provides a linkage to the surrounded areas.

Struer Havn has the opportunity to be transformed from former - and current - industrial purposes to future everyday life, living and work streams. The masterplan is a development where people can thrive, where life is lived, but also where a quiet everyday life unfolds. Taking the chance to propose an innovative solution, this project gives an opportunity to give back a multifunctional and inspiring harbour that collects us together and invites to have a conversation with the water and land, invites to move around, stay and live. This is the environment of the place that Struer harbour could be.

Design

The aim of the design is to create a linkage between the city center and the nature through the harbour area. Here, the harbour becomes a connector. The design is based on three main parameters - site identity, sustainability and soundscape. There are collaborating in order to strengthen the linkage and create new, unique experiences.