a local refuge
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How can we create better urban spaces for people? This thesis presents a detailing and a counterproposal to a section of an existing proposal from 2016 on turning a heavy traffic artery in Copenhagen upside down by burying the car traffic in a tunnel and releasing the creek that is currently piped underneath this street and creating a blue-green urban space at street level. The project strives to create a sensory balanced and versatile urban space accommodating multiple users and accentuating the local architectural context while ensuring cohesion between the city districts. Creating a local refuge for people.
THESIS STATEMENT
This thesis will be based on scenario 2 from the preliminary analysis Omdannelse af Åboulevarden from 2016 by Copenhagen and Frederiksberg Municipality that gives a proposal to the conversion from urban motorway to The Green Boulevard.
As the future scenario only gives a diagrammatic proposal, this project will provide a detailed proposal on how to create the best possible urban space for people on a section of Ågade (fig x). Through spatial design, the thesis will focus on creating and strengthening:
- a physical and architectural cohesion of the two city districts Frederiksberg and Nørrebro
- an accentuation of the architectural context
- a sensory balanced urban interior that acts as a refuge for people
- an urban space that accommodates several different users