THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO Winner of the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Climate Adaptation Copenhagen

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1 THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO Winner of the Nordic Built Cities Challenge 2016 Climate Adaptation Copenhagen

2 Water whether the increase of it, the pollution of it or the lack of it is going to be one of the main urban challenges of the 21th Century. SLA s project The Soul of Nørrebro addresses this issue through a new Nordic Model for city development. It is a highly scalable model based on co-creation, dialogue and humanistic nature-based design solutions. And which simultaneously solves both physical, social and cultural challenges in our cities.

3 The Nordic Model for our cities Co-creation, social innovation and city nature in a strong nature-based design The project The Soul of Nørrebro uses nature to solve some of today s hardest urban challenges while increasing the life quality of people. This new Nordic Model is based on co-creation, dialogue and a humanistic and nature-based design approach to the shared public space in our cities. Urbanity as unstable condition Water whether the increase of it, the pollution of it or the lack of it is going to be one of the main urban challenges of the 21th Century. In a world where the effects of global climate change are becoming still more severe it s become apparent that our cities are not adapted to the increasing temperatures and rain fall that is the direct consequence of destabilized weather conditions. Today the metropolises of the world are fighting devastating floods and damaging cloudbursts a condition which is paradoxically combined with a catastrophic lack of clean, nontoxic drinking water. This mix is making more and more cities in parts uninhabitable. The situation is further worsened by the global urbanization mega trend through which according to the UN more than 70 percent of the world s population will live in cities by We are de facto approaching a new kind of human being who is born, raised, lives and dies in the city: A Homo Urbanus who is seeing its living conditions and life quality sharply deteriorating. Research shows that more and more people are becoming more and more unhappy with their lives in the city. The reasons most often attributed to this are pollution, a lack of a good social life, and a lack of close contact with nature. The Nordic Model To alleviate this sinister conglomerate of urban challenges, SLA has for the last 20 years developed and practiced a new Nordic Model for city development. It is a model based on co-creation, dialogue and humanistic nature-based design solutions. And which solves both physical, social and cultural challenges in our cities. With SLA s Nordic Model, city development is always founded in local and site-specific circumstances, using the local social and cultural life as well as the specific physical challenges of the area as starting point for solutions. But because of its strong foundation in the principles and processes of nature, the method is also highly scalable and can be applied in a wide array of settings and conditions around the world. Water as resource not a problem The City of Copenhagen is, just like almost every other big city, facing critical climate changes and a growing population. Copenhagen s challenges range from heavy cloudbursts, urban heat islands and an increased carbon footprint, to waste management, water pollution and an increasing social and cultural segregation in the inner city just to mention a few. SLA s project THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO aims to address all of these challenges by seeing water not as a problem, but as a resource. The project is a flagship example of how the Nordic approach, based on co-creation, dialogue and humanistic nature-based design can solve our urban challenges and make life in our cities much better. The project is deeply founded in the local circumstances of Nørrebro, Copenhagen. But its methods and solutions are highly scalable, making it easily applicable in other cities in the Nordic countries and indeed the rest of the world. THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO CLIMATE ADAPTATION COPENHAGEN Location: Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark Area: m 2 Service: Urban design and climate adaptation Cost: 18 mill. Euro Client: The Municipality of Copenhagen Team: SLA (lead consultant), Rambøll (technical lead), Completion: 2022 (estimated) Atelier Dreiseitl, Arki_Lab, Social Action, Gadeidræt, Aydin Soei, Saunders Architecture

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5 The Nørrebro circuit The hydrological, the biological and the social city system The Biological Circuit Nature s biological circuits are vitalizing, dynamic and constantly evolving. From the most fragile saplings to old wise trees, new cuttings, birdsong, fallen leaves, death and weathering, nature gives us a feeling of being part of something greater. By strengthening The Biological Circuit of Inner Nørrebro, Hans Tavsens Park will become the birthplace of a biological diversity and variety that will spread from the area to the rest of Nørrebro and Copenhagen. GROWTH MATURING THE BIRTHPLACE OF DIVERSITY MIXING The Soul of Nørrebro supports and strengthens the intricate urban systems that define the character of Nørrebro: The hydrological circuit, the biological circuit and the social circuit. By founding all solutions in a strong city nature, the project amplifies the synergy between the different circuits. The result is a project that solves a host of urban challenges while at the same time creating new possibilities for social co-existence. FLOWERING WEATHERING A new nature-based urban system The main objectives for the climate adaptation and renewal of Hans Tavsens Park and Korsgade are the redirecting of rainwater from cloudbursts while creating new, attractive and more liveable urban spaces in Inner Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The competition program asked the participating architects to create social innovation by rethinking the relationship between urban park, city nature, public playgrounds, local organizations and the area s schools. SLA s project THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO answered this challenge by invoking a new Nordic type of nature-based climate adaptation based on the principles and processes of nature. Thus the climate solution is not based on wider sewages, coated surfaces or technological gadgets but instead on city nature: The intricate design of topography, soil, trees, flowers, vegetation and natural seepage. Strenghtening the Nørrebro circuits Central to THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO s nature-based climate adaptation solutions is the strengthening of Nørrebro s hydrological, biological and social circuits with the creation of a new city nature. The project aims to amplify the synergy between the different urban circuits in a cultivated microcosm, enriched by Inner Nørrebro s unique qualities and spirit. The implementation of the project is done in close collaboration with the residents, the local school children and local organizations which secures local ownership and an empowered local identity. The result is a project that both solves the challenges of torrential rains and cloudbursts; that cleans and purify the water of Copenhagen; and that creates new public spaces and opportunities for cultural and social interaction and co-existence. The Social Circuit Nørrebro is the most diverse neighbourhood in Copenhagen. The density, community feeling and tolerance is unique for the neighbourhood. By strengthening The Social Circuit the project will increase everyday happiness in Nørrebro by promoting large and small communities transcending social resources, generations, gender and cultural background. The purpose of The Social Circuit is to strengthen commitment to as well as the co-creation of the residents shared well-being. The Social Ciruit is anchored in the neighbourhoods institutions including Copenhagen s first Fablab for CIty Nature. PLAYFUL CHILDREN FOCUS ON CO-CREATION LOCAL COMMITMENT ACTIVITY PIONEERING SPIRIT COMMUNICATORS The value of using city nature in climate adaptation is that it can create complementary solutions that both solves the specific problem of handling torrential rain to avoid flooding, while at the same time provide a significant increase of life quality and stronger social cohesion in Nørrebro. Thus, THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO is both an extremely site specific solution to Nørrebro s challenges; and a universal method of how cities can use city nature to deal with cloudbursts in dense inner city neighborhoods while adding unique social, cultural and natural values to increase the life quality of its residents. The Hydrological Circuit Copenhagen s city nature needs the utility and amenity values of its rain water as well as its poetic value. That is why we are working with holistic rain water solutions that are part of a larger circuit. In The Hydrological Circuit both small and large scale rain is seen as a resource where the rain water is collected, cleansed and reused to irrigate the city nature, to naturally cool the city on hot summer days, to create new urban spaces for people to meet and socialize and to enrich the everyday life in the city with new poetic and sensuous experiences of life-giving rain. CLEANSING RAIN 100% UTILITY & AMENITY VALUE DELAY & STORAGE SEEPAGE RECYCLING

6 Rainwater Everyday rain and cloudburst rain When the project is complete, Hans Tavsens Park will act as a natural rainwater catchment basin during cloudbursts for Inner Nørrebro capable of handling up to m 3 of water at one time. The excess rainwater will be led via Korsgade out into the Copenhagen Lakes. On the way, the water will be purified biologically by the specifically designed city nature biotopes that are established along Korsgade. The water thus will be a visible feature in the cityscape while contributing to irrigation and improving the local microclimate on the hot, sunny side of the Korsgade street, creating a series of new, blue-green public spaces for all to enjoy. Even in dry periods there is water in the streets, because we also pump the phosphorus filled lake water into the site and cleanse the lake water with the same biotopes. The result is a continuously self-cleansing circuit: A win-win for the entire city! Roof Rain Water 9,0m 8,0m 7,5m 7,0m 8,0m 7,0m 7,0m 8,0m 8,0m Roof Rain Water 7,5m Reused Rain Water Roof Rain Water Reused Rain Water Surface Channel Reused Rain Water 7,0m Roof Rain Water Surface Channel Lakefront Paths 6,5m 7,0m Filtering Biotopes Cloudburst Pipe 5,0m 6,5m 5,8m Cloudburst and Low Point Drainage Pipe Lake and Recycled Water Pipe to be filtered over surface Pump Room Filtered Lake Water Pipe

7 Hans Tavsens Park From run down, hard coated park to a modern city park for the future Korsgade From unsafe infrastructure to a blue-green social street space

8 Co-creation the Nordic way Capturing the soul of Nørrebro The Soul of Nørrebro is based on continuous dialogue and co-creation together with the local citizens and development authorities of Nørrebro. By founding the urban development in city nature, the project re-thinks the evolution of our cities. Together, the people of Nørrebro will design, plant and grow their city and transform the area s future identity, urban life and social and cultural cohesion. Making our cities livable calls for synergy between many different kinds of knowledge, skills, insights and knowhows. SLA s project THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO has been created in a great collaboration between Nordic architects, biologists, ethnologist and engineers. Co-creation as design method The most important collaboration, however, has been the close and continuous dialogue with the local Nørrebro Urban Renewal Authorities and the citizens and stakeholders in Nørrebro. This close participation process has ensured the project s applicability and the best local foundation for the future development of the neighborhood. But contrary to ordinary participatory processes, which usually are confined to the initial ideas phase, THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO aims to make the participatory process permanent. For SLA, urban development is not a closed process that starts and stops with the architects. For us, urban development is an ongoing and highly social process grounded in the local community a process that must continue and evolve long after the architects, city-planners and municipality workers have gone home. Together with the City of Copenhagen, Nørrebro Urban Renewal Authorities, the local schools and the local organizations and groups, SLA starts up a process which will ensure that the project will grow from the bottom up and be a place for experimenting and pioneering the design and maintenance of a greener and more sustainable and resilient Copenhagen. Social cohesion starts with the local schools Thus, SLA works closely together with the people of Nørrebro to design, plant and grow their city with a sensuous, varied, blue-green and site-specific Nørrebro city nature that will become the backbone of the area s future identity and urban life. By including the local school children in the maintenance and development of the city nature they will learn new things about their world, their city and themselves. New social bonds will form and strengthen when the citizens meet across cultural and economic backgrounds to collectively make their city a better place to live. The result is a greener, happier, more socially and culturally inclusive as well as a more resilient and healthy city. All based on the unique soul of Nørrebro. Co-creation as a continuous process With THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO, Hans Tavsens Park and Korsgade will become a leading example of how co-creation can be the framework for a unique, social and active, urban everyday life.

9 About SLA SLA is a Danish based group of urban quality experts operating within the fields of urban space, city planning and landscape architecture. Started in 1994, the firm is today lead by three partners: Founder Stig L. Andersson, CEO Mette Skjold and Project Director Rasmus Astrup. At SLA we use nature-based design to create modern, sustainable cities that inspire community and diversity through nature s amenity and utility values. Our projects solve some of today s hardest urban problems while creating genuine urban quality that in an unorthodox way add new meaning to the city. Together our 55 employees form a multidisciplinary team consisting of designers, biologists, city planners, planting experts and urban forests engineers. SLA has offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Oslo, Norway. Contact Kristoffer Holm Pedersen Head of Communications and Business Development khp@sla.dk SLA Copenhagen Njalsgade 17B Pakhus 2, 3rd Floor 2300 Copenhagen Denmark SLA Aarhus Mejlgade 51A, 3rd Floor 8000 Aarhus C Denmark SLA Oslo Torggata 38 N-0182 Oslo Norway info@sla.dk SLA s three partners: Founder and Design Director Stig L. Andersson, CEO Mette Skjold and Project Director Rasmus Astrup

10 About Ramboll Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company founded in Denmark in We employ 13,000 experts and have a strong presence in Europe, North America, Middle East and India, supplemented by a significant representation in Asia, Australia, South America and Africa. We have a holistic approach to urban development that encompasses strategy, planning, and combines world class technical design services with architecture and planning. We work with a number of the world s largest and most innovative cities to create liveable, sustainable and long term urban development solutions that are fully adapted to the local context. Ramboll Head Office Hannemanns Allé Copenhagen S Denmark Ramboll Liveable Cities 20 Custom House St, Suite 800 Boston, MA USA Our experts mobility planners, water and civil engineers, hydraulic specialists, biologist and landscape architects, but also economists, legal advisors and management consultants work with integrated urban development and climate adaptation projects on a global scale with more than 50 years of proven experience. Contact Christian Nyerup Nielsen Director cnn@ramboll.dk info@ramboll.com

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