Refsbyen - Working with existing post-industrial qualities to inform a communal and flexible urban framework
(2024) ASBM01 20231Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- Cities today globally face significant problems in the context of the climate crisis. Firstly, in terms of resilience in enduring future challenges – urban heat islands, increasingly frequent flooding, supply chain disruptions, sea level rise among others. Secondly, in terms of contributing to said crisis, through carbon emissions, the erosion of biodiversity through sprawl, overconsumption, and car-centric development to name a few. Nevertheless, cities serve as the economic and cultural engines of our civilisation, and thus must be adapted to meet these challenges, while also rising to the task of confronting an increasingly urbanised and unequal world.
The post-industrial districts of many cities present perhaps the greatest... (More) - Cities today globally face significant problems in the context of the climate crisis. Firstly, in terms of resilience in enduring future challenges – urban heat islands, increasingly frequent flooding, supply chain disruptions, sea level rise among others. Secondly, in terms of contributing to said crisis, through carbon emissions, the erosion of biodiversity through sprawl, overconsumption, and car-centric development to name a few. Nevertheless, cities serve as the economic and cultural engines of our civilisation, and thus must be adapted to meet these challenges, while also rising to the task of confronting an increasingly urbanised and unequal world.
The post-industrial districts of many cities present perhaps the greatest opportunity for this adaption. Typically occupying strategically located sites, existing structures can be retained, and thus the imbued carbon stored within, and contribute to the creation of a sense of place and identity. The neglected spaces of these districts, often left to nature, provide urban biodiversity hotspots as a base for future reinforcement. Cultural activity is often drawn to these areas too, acting as haven for fringe and alternative culture.
Copenhagen has faced rapid growth since the near bankruptcy of the 1990s, regenerated as a Scandinavian cultural epicenter and elevated to the status as one of the world’s most livable cities – praised for the high-quality public spaces, preservation of architectural identity and expansive soft mobility networks. However, gentrification, inequality, and climate adaption are just some of the major challenges to the city.
Following the loss of shipbuilding, Refshaleøen, an artificial peninsula in Central Copenhagen, presents one such example of post-industrial opportunity, gazetted by authorities as a future prospective area spurred by the expansion of the Copenhagen Metro. This thesis investigates one possible intervention that places the established cultural, architectural and natural elements as the primary design drivers for a human-scaled, climate-resilient and future-proof proposal. (Less) - Popular Abstract
- Cities today globally face significant problems in the context of the climate crisis. Firstly, in terms of resilience in enduring future challenges – urban heat islands, increasingly frequent flooding, supply chain disruptions, sea level rise among others. Secondly, in terms of contributing to said crisis, through carbon emissions, the erosion of biodiversity through sprawl, overconsumption, and car-centric development to name a few. Nevertheless, cities serve as the economic and cultural engines of our civilisation, and thus must be adapted to meet these challenges, while also rising to the task of confronting an increasingly urbanised and unequal world.
The post-industrial districts of many cities present perhaps the greatest... (More) - Cities today globally face significant problems in the context of the climate crisis. Firstly, in terms of resilience in enduring future challenges – urban heat islands, increasingly frequent flooding, supply chain disruptions, sea level rise among others. Secondly, in terms of contributing to said crisis, through carbon emissions, the erosion of biodiversity through sprawl, overconsumption, and car-centric development to name a few. Nevertheless, cities serve as the economic and cultural engines of our civilisation, and thus must be adapted to meet these challenges, while also rising to the task of confronting an increasingly urbanised and unequal world.
The post-industrial districts of many cities present perhaps the greatest opportunity for this adaption. Typically occupying strategically located sites, existing structures can be retained, and thus the imbued carbon stored within, and contribute to the creation of a sense of place and identity. The neglected spaces of these districts, often left to nature, provide urban biodiversity hotspots as a base for future reinforcement. Cultural activity is often drawn to these areas too, acting as haven for fringe and alternative culture.
Copenhagen has faced rapid growth since the near bankruptcy of the 1990s, regenerated as a Scandinavian cultural epicenter and elevated to the status as one of the world’s most livable cities – praised for the high-quality public spaces, preservation of architectural identity and expansive soft mobility networks. However, gentrification, inequality, and climate adaption are just some of the major challenges to the city.
Following the loss of shipbuilding, Refshaleøen, an artificial peninsula in Central Copenhagen, presents one such example of post-industrial opportunity, gazetted by authorities as a future prospective area spurred by the expansion of the Copenhagen Metro. This thesis investigates one possible intervention that places the established cultural, architectural and natural elements as the primary design drivers for a human-scaled, climate-resilient and future-proof proposal. (Less)
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- Ryle, Andrew LU
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- ASBM01 20231
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Master plan, brownfield, redevelopment, post-industrial, Copenhagen, urban design, integrated ecology, urban recycling, soft mobility
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- English
- id
- 9170813
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abstract = {{Cities today globally face significant problems in the context of the climate crisis. Firstly, in terms of resilience in enduring future challenges – urban heat islands, increasingly frequent flooding, supply chain disruptions, sea level rise among others. Secondly, in terms of contributing to said crisis, through carbon emissions, the erosion of biodiversity through sprawl, overconsumption, and car-centric development to name a few. Nevertheless, cities serve as the economic and cultural engines of our civilisation, and thus must be adapted to meet these challenges, while also rising to the task of confronting an increasingly urbanised and unequal world.
The post-industrial districts of many cities present perhaps the greatest opportunity for this adaption. Typically occupying strategically located sites, existing structures can be retained, and thus the imbued carbon stored within, and contribute to the creation of a sense of place and identity. The neglected spaces of these districts, often left to nature, provide urban biodiversity hotspots as a base for future reinforcement. Cultural activity is often drawn to these areas too, acting as haven for fringe and alternative culture.
Copenhagen has faced rapid growth since the near bankruptcy of the 1990s, regenerated as a Scandinavian cultural epicenter and elevated to the status as one of the world’s most livable cities – praised for the high-quality public spaces, preservation of architectural identity and expansive soft mobility networks. However, gentrification, inequality, and climate adaption are just some of the major challenges to the city.
Following the loss of shipbuilding, Refshaleøen, an artificial peninsula in Central Copenhagen, presents one such example of post-industrial opportunity, gazetted by authorities as a future prospective area spurred by the expansion of the Copenhagen Metro. This thesis investigates one possible intervention that places the established cultural, architectural and natural elements as the primary design drivers for a human-scaled, climate-resilient and future-proof proposal.}},
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