KU Landscape Planning - Group 4 - Proces Diary

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Landscape Planning 2013

STEELSCAPEPROCESS DIARY

WEEK ONE

A major road barricades the con-nection between the shopping street and the recreatonal area. This re-sults in a weak connection between life of the shopping street and the green open space.

The old foundry area - the Gje-thuset area - is now used as a cul-tural center and industrial museum. It is situated in proximity to the shopping street but the connection could be optimized.

The rail way station is situated in the southern part of the city, and was build to support the industry in the harbour area. With its location -

Meetings

“Hot spot” and “Meeting area”

The canal The Forested hill

The shopping street

Frederiksværk contains many qualities, between its industrial history and its landscapes - but nowadays, the town is losing its identity. The revalorisation of its historical and natural qualities by connecting them to the city life will give a new identity to Fred-eriksværk.

First and foremost Frederiksværk is known for its steel and military in-dustry, which is an interesting and valuable history to take advantage of in the reconstruction of the town. Many of the hitorical buildings re-main and provide a special sense of place, but they are not really con-nected to the city center. Secondly Frederiksværk contains and is sur-rounded by diverse landscapes; forest, wetland, canal - unfortu-natly hidden in some part from the center. The project are using these potentials and connecting them to revalue the town life.

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Potentials

A canal of water - originally dug for the industrial production - runs through the city from Arresø (Lake) in the east towards Roskilde Fjord (fiord) in the west. The water acts as an element of life all along the city center, in different sizes and shapes it offers several atmos-pheres and can be seen as a witness of the history.

The canal enters the city from a forested hill, which frame the city center and provide intimacy. Un-fortuntly, there are few access to this part of nature and the connec-tions to the center do not exist. The canal is running in circle creating an island. This large space contains the old gun powder area - today a museum - and the high school; but besides that no functions and ac-tivities are defining this large green open space.

separate from the main streets, fea-tures and possible destinations - the station area lies isolated and should be connected to the other parts of Frederiksværk.

By de Gorostarzu Pauline, de Gouy Arthur, Petersen Laura Freyberg, Sorento Mads

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Connections between Landscapes - History - City lifeLinks in the city

Landscapes - History - City life

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ConceptFrederiksværk contains many qual-ities, but these are weakly connect-ed. Where different urban spaces and landscape elements cross, the meetings are unhomogeneous and can be improved.

The project links three main fea-tures of Frederiksværk: Landscapes - History - Town life, thanks to con-nection lines and hot spots (see dia-grams).

The connection lines will be vis-ual lines and physical axis. The old main street and the shopping street will be emphasized and important visual lines revealed. The canal can be seen as a blue/green line along the city center.

The hot spots are crossings be-tween the three elements, and are creating spaces where different parts of the city meets - meeting areas.


WEEK TWO

Meetings Frederiksværk

Plandrawing of Frederiksværk showing the two main lines; north/south following the canal and east/west from the station to the park, and the areas that we develop; the landscape square by the church, the urban square where the connection from the station crosses the canal and the historic square at the gunpowder area

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forest

gunpowder areawetland

industry

harbour

school

parking

church

gjethuset

station

ACTIVITYPARK

ACTIVITYPARK

CLEARING

CLEARING

CLEARING

CLEARING

HISTORIC SQUARE

LEVELLEDPATH

LEVELLEDPATH

URBANSQUARE

LANDSCAPESQUARESTREET

PARK

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sults in a weak connection between life of the shopping street and the green open space.


The rail way station is situated in the southern part of the city, and was build to support the industry in the harbour area. With its location - separate from the main streets, fea-tures and possible destinations - the station area lies isolated and should be connected to the other parts of Frederiksværk.

Frederiksværk contains many qualities, between its industrial history and its landscapes - but nowadays, the town is losing its identity. The revalorisation of its historical and natural qualities by connecting them to the city life will give a new identity to Fred-eriksværk.

First and foremost Frederiksværk is known for its steel and military in-dustry, which is an interesting and valuable history to take advantage of in the reconstruction of the town. Many of the hitorical buildings re-main and provide a special sense of place, but they are not really con-nected to the city center. Secondly Frederiksværk contains and is sur-rounded by diverse landscapes; forest, wetland, canal - unfortu-natly hidden in some part from the center. The project are using these potentials and connecting them to revalue the town life.

PotentialsA canal of water - originally dug for the industrial production - runs through the city from Arresø Lake in the east towards Roskilde Fjord in the west. The water acts as an el-ement of life all along the city cent-er, in different sizes and shapes it offers several atmospheres and can be seen as a witness of the history.

The canal enters the city from a forested hill, which frame the city center and provide intimacy. Un-fortuntly, there are few access to this part of nature and the connec-tions to the center do not exist. The canal is running in circle creating an island. This large space contains the old gun powder area - today a museum - and the high school; but besides that no functions and ac-tivities are defining this large green open space.

A major road barricades the con-nection between the shopping street and the recreational area. This re-

ConceptFrederiksværk contains many qual-ities, but these are weakly connect-ed. Where different urban spaces and landscape elements cross, the meetings are unhomogeneous and can be improved. The project links three main features of Frederiks-værk: Landscapes - History - Town life, thanks to connection lines and meeting areas. Our concept is fo-cusing on two connection lines and three main meeting areas.

Connection linesWe want to connect the different elements of the city by making two main axis. First, an axis in the east/west direction transforms the canal as a “Promenade” from the Forest, through the former main street to the wetland: “Landscape line”. Sec-ondly, in the north/south direction, a “Street Park” is created, connect-ing the Train station to the green area - transformed in an Activities

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Section showing the street park, the canal and the urban square (see plandrawing for section line)

Visualization from the “History square” at the gunpowder area

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Parc Atlétic Tossols - our inspira-tion for the Activities Park

Parc central Nou Barris - reference for our work at the canal banks

Parc Torrent d’en Farre - reference for our work at the canal

Baladona - our inspiration for the levelled paths going in the forest

Concept diagram showing the connection lines and the meeting squares

Street Park

Urban square

Historicsquare

Lanscapesquare

Paths inthe forest

Activity Park

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Park. This street evolves between urban life, canal atmosphere, activ-ities park to end up as a small path at the gunpowder: “Urban line.”

Meeting squaresThree areas are developed along

those connection lines. A first square - the “Landscape square” - reveals the Forest and the canal. It is connecting the forest, the canal, the shopping street and the Gje-thuset. In this area, the promenade starts in a wild green surroundings - wild canal. Around the church, it becomes more urban, the canal opens up with levels on the banks and accesses to the water - open canal. The second area is the cross-ing between the Promenade and the Street park. This “Urban square” reveals the urban vegetation: the trees coming from the Street Park are here planted in square - 3 x 4 in lines - then meet the trees from the canal banks and are finally ex-panded to the Activities Park. The last meeting area is revealing the gunpowder site and the history of the canal: “History square”. This is an opening on the canal, a simple bridge allowing to observ the dy-namic canal.

InspirationsThe path system in the forest be-hind the shopping street is inspired by many projects we saw in Bar-celona working with the terrain, as for example the Baladona Park. Here we want to work with levels and making paths going through the forest with different viewpoint over the city along the way.

The “Landscape square”, with the evolution of the canal from nar-row/wild to open/urban, is inspired by the Park Torrent d’en Farre in Barcelona.

The “Urban square”, with the trees from the bank growing through the bridge, is inspired by the wood decks in the Parc Central Nou Barris - Barcelona.

The Activities Park is inspired by the sports field in Olot - Parc Atlétic Tossols - where the park has open-ings with areas for sports activities inside.

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WEEK THREE

Meetings Frederiksværk

Plandrawing of Frederiksværk showing where we work. We have two axes; the Canal Axis and the Street Park, the junction of theese two lines is Strand-gade Square. In two other places we work with changing a bigger area; the Church Square and the Gunpowder Allé.

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besides that no functions and ac-tivities are defining this large green open space.

A major road barricades the con-nection between the shopping street and the recreational area. This re-sults in a weak connection between life of the shopping street and the green open space.


The rail way station is situated in the southern part of the city, and was build to support the industry in the harbour area. With its location - separate from the main streets, fea-tures and possible destinations - the station area lies isolated and should be connected to the other parts of Frederiksværk.

Frederiksværk contains many qualities, between its industrial history and its landscapes - but nowadays, the town is losing its identity. The revalorisation of its historical and natural qualities by connecting them to the city life will utilize the potentials and provide Frederiksværk with co-herence and future possibilities.

First and foremost Frederiksværk is known for its steel and military industry, which is an interesting and valuable history to take advan-tage of in the reconstruction of the town. Many of the historical build-ings remain and provide a special sense of place. Secondly Frederiks-værk contains and is surrounded by diverse landscapes; forest, wetland and canal running through the city. Unfortunately both much of the cultural history and the landscape elements are hidden in many parts of the city. The project make the

nature and history more accessible and connect them to various desti-nations, meeting places and transi-tion lines - and thereby take advan-tage of the existing possibilities.

PotentialsA canal of water - originally dug for the industrial production - runs through the city from Arresø Lake in the east towards Roskilde Fjord in the west. The water acts as an element of life all along the city, in different sizes and shapes it of-fers several atmospheres and can be seen as a witness of the history.

The canal enters the city from a forested hill, which frame the city center and provide intimacy. Un-fortunately, there are few access to this part of nature and the connec-tions to the center do not exist. The canal is running in circle creating an island. This large space contains the old gun powder area - today a museum - and the high school; but

ConceptFrederiksværk contains many qual-ities, but these are weakly connect-ed. Where different urban spaces and landscape elements cross, the meetings are inhomogeneous and can be improved. The project links three main features of Frederiks-værk: Landscapes - History - Town life, thanks to connection lines and meeting areas. Our concept is fo-cusing on two connection lines and three main meeting areas.

Connection linesWe want to connect the different elements of the city by making two main axes. First, an axis in the east/west direction transforms the canal as a “promenade” from the forest, through the former main street to the wetland: Canal Axis. Second-ly, in the north/south direction, a “Street Park” is created, connecting the train station to the green area. This street evolves between urban

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Zoom of the plan at the Church Square

Zoom of the plan at the Strandgade Square

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Diagram showing the reduced traf-fic in the city made by regulations and speed bumps

The traffic in the city now; cars and trucks pass through the city

life, canal atmosphere, activities park to end up as a small path at the gunpowder: Street Park.

Meeting squaresThree areas are developed along those connection lines. A first square - the Church Square - re-veals the forest and the canal. It is connecting the forest, the canal, the shopping street and the Gjethuset. In this area, the promenade starts in a wild green surroundings - wild canal. Around the church, it be-comes more urban, the canal opens up with levels on the banks and ac-cesses to the water - open canal. The second area is the crossing be-tween the Canal Axis and the Street Park. This urban square called Strandgade Square reveals the ur-ban vegetation: the trees coming from the Street Park are here plant-ed in square - 3 x 4 in lines - then meet the trees from the canal banks and are finally expanded to the green area. The last meeting area is revealing the gunpowder site and the history of the canal: Gunpow-der Allé. This is an area where we want to make a connection between the shopping street and the square by the mall and the gunpowder area on the other side of the road - this means that something must be done to make it possible to cross the road so pedestrians do not have to use the tunnel as they do now.

Next stepWe have been working on site this week, finding our projects week and strong elements, now we are starting to work on the master plan for the area and this is the work we need to continue next week. At the same time we need to focus on the three areas we have chosen to develop into detail; the Church Square, the Gunpowder Allé and Strandgade Square. We want to show detailed plans for these ar-eas and we want to make models in 1:500 to show the ideas in a three-dimensional way.

Steps

LawnNew square

Shopping Street

Hard surfaceEntrance to the forest

Path to the forest

Path to the forest

Path continues

Church

Deck

AcessClearing

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WEEK FOUR

Open up Frederiksværk!

Plan drawing and diagrams. The plan drawing showing the master plan for Frederiksværk, where we work with two axes going from Arresø to the fi ord and from the train station to the gunpowder area. These two lines makemeeting points by the church, by Strandgade/ Peder Falsters Vej and by the gunpowder area.

City life

Landscape

Traffic

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road from wide and car-dominated to a narrow street, where pedestri-ans have lots of green space and cars drive slowly. To avoid heavy traffi c in the street, large trucks are led on detour around the city via Hillerødvej, Hundestedvej and Havnevej. This minimize the pass-ing traffi c at Nørregade/Peder Fal-sters Vej.

Church Square - entrance to the forestThree areas are developed along the two connection lines. The fi rst square - the Church Square - re-veals the forest and the canal. It is connecting the forest, the canal, the shopping street and Gjethuset. In this area, the Canal Axis starts in wild green surroundings. Around the church, it becomes more urban, the canal opens up with levels on the banks and access to water.

Frederiksværk is a city with dif-ferent potentials in landscape, history and city life, but miss-ing links between varying urban spaces creates a inhomogeneous city. By making a connection from Arresø to Roskilde Fjord and a connection from the train station to the gunpowder area, we make new crossings in the city, connecting the different el-ements. The crossings gets dif-ferent expressions and provide unique atmospheres.

Problem formulationThis project is connecting the dif-ferent qualities of Frederiksværk; landscape, history and city life, and provides 3 public spaces, with different hierarchy, functions and qualities.

Solution/ConceptThe lack of connections, lack of hierarchy in public spaces and the

large road Nørregade/Peder Fal-sters Vej, which divides Frederiks-værk in two, are the main problems this project will solve. The project links three main features of Fred-eriksværk; landscape, history and city life, thanks to connection lines and meeting areas. The concept is focusing on two connection lines and three main meeting areas to re-spond to the challenges.

Connection linesThe different elements of the city are connected by two main axes. First, an axis in the east/west di-rection transforms the canal as a “Canal Axis” from the forest, along the former main street towards the marina, connecting the landscape elements all the way from Arresø to Roskilde Fjord. Secondly, in the north/south direction, a “Street Park” is created, connecting the train station to the gunpowder area. This intervention transforms the

Gunpowder Square - avenue to the forestThe second meeting area is reveal-ing the gunpowder site and the his-tory of the canal “Gunpowder Av-enue”. Here connection from the shopping street and the square by the mall to the gunpowder area on the other side of the road creates coherence. The square by the mall will have cobblestone that continue and pass the road. On both sides of the gunpowder area, avenues of trees are revealed and defi ned, while the row of trees are contin-ued past the road to the mall square – connecting the history to the for-ested hill landscape.

Strandgade junctionThe second area is an urban square called Strandgade Square, here ur-ban vegetation is revealed: the trees coming from the Street Park are planted in a square with 1,5 meters, 2,5 meters and 3,5 meters between.

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Zoom of the plan at the Church Square

The canal as a part of the Church Square with access to the water and lessdense vegetation to open up

The canal as it is now next to the church - overgrown with vegetation and very closed

Zoom of the plan at Strandgade square and Hermannsgade

The Street Park at Hermannsgade - making the road more pedestrian-friendly

HCrossing the road at Nørregade now means going in the tunnel

Zoom of the plan at the Gunpowder Allé and Nørregade

Crossing Nørregade by feet should be easier - Nørregade becomes shared space instead of a big road with speeding traffi c.

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This makes different rooms and lines for cars and pedestrians. This is the junction where the Street Park and the Canal Axis meet. It gives a lot of potential because a lot of people are passing through it.

Next stepThe master plan is developing and needs to continue to do so. We are working with models for the three main areas to make sure that our solutions work spatially as well as on the plan.

When the models are fi nished, the master plan can be even more detailed as well as the sections and visualizations.

Hermannsgade now - a car dominated road

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