Based upon the Finger Plan
The idea behind ’The Finger Plan’, where Copenhagen is the palm connected with surrounding municipalities like fingers, gives us an effective tool to achieve coherence across areas.However, the project’s strategies and recommendations are relatively simple to incorporate across municipal boundaries. We propose that the car free zone is placed in the ‘palm’ combined with several strategic mobility hubs located next to major access roads, light rails, and S-trains. The development of such hubs is already being developed in areas like Ny Ellebjerg, Buddinge, Herlev, Lyngby, Glostrup etc.
Based upon the Finger Plan
The idea behind ’The Finger Plan’, where Copenhagen is the palm connected with surrounding municipalities like fingers, gives us an effective tool to achieve coherence across areas.However, the project’s strategies and recommendations are relatively simple to incorporate across municipal boundaries. We propose that the car free zone is placed in the ‘palm’ combined with several strategic mobility hubs located next to major access roads, light rails, and S-trains. The development of such hubs is already being developed in areas like Ny Ellebjerg, Buddinge, Herlev, Lyngby, Glostrup etc.
No more through traffic
A new, complete ring road requires a rethinking of several of Copenhagen’s main roads. Many of the major roads run along the medieval city, also known as the Inner City, and we therefore propose to use the car-free zone as a natural stop sign for through traffic, but apart from public transport, which in turn will be able to pass smoothly.
No more through traffic
A new, complete ring road requires a rethinking of several of Copenhagen’s main roads. Many of the major roads run along the medieval city, also known as the Inner City, and we therefore propose to use the car-free zone as a natural stop sign for through traffic, but apart from public transport, which in turn will be able to pass smoothly.
Super Boulevards
The project contains four types of roads and streets: The green ‘super boulevards’, the access roads, the island streets, and the residential streets. The streets each have a distinct function and character and operate with a clear, inherent hierarchy. Cars cannot travel across traffic lanes, and the Super Boulevards, therefore, act as a barrier across and a fast-track along. The Super Boulevards thus have far fewer intersections, which both provides space for the city and forms the basis for an efficient green connection through the city.
Super Boulevards
The project contains four types of roads and streets: The green ‘super boulevards’, the access roads, the island streets, and the residential streets. The streets each have a distinct function and character and operate with a clear, inherent hierarchy. Cars cannot travel across traffic lanes, and the Super Boulevards, therefore, act as a barrier across and a fast-track along. The Super Boulevards thus have far fewer intersections, which both provides space for the city and forms the basis for an efficient green connection through the city.
Access roads
The main idea behind the access roads is, that the closer you get to the inner city, the fewer people will be using the access roads. The access roads are dead ends and when meeting the inner city, they end up as open plazas.
Access roads
The main idea behind the access roads is, that the closer you get to the inner city, the fewer people will be using the access roads. The access roads are dead ends and when meeting the inner city, they end up as open plazas.
The Historic fortification
By stopping through traffic in the city center, several new, attractive squares and urban spaces are created, but the project also provides an opportunity to re-establish Copenhagen’s original fortification as one green, continuous park that surrounds the Inner City. Several fantastic, but, for now, incoherent green facilities and park spaces can finally be re-established as a unity, where historical layers, traffic planning and sustainable urban development are united in a single movement.
The Historic fortification
By stopping through traffic in the city center, several new, attractive squares and urban spaces are created, but the project also provides an opportunity to re-establish Copenhagen’s original fortification as one green, continuous park that surrounds the Inner City. Several fantastic, but, for now, incoherent green facilities and park spaces can finally be re-established as a unity, where historical layers, traffic planning and sustainable urban development are united in a single movement.
Super Blocks
The access roads branch out into the island streets that surround small neighborhood islands, which work in the same way as we know it from the Super Blocks project from Barcelona. The island streets act as loops with fewer connections to the access roads as a result. That way, it simplifies the entire street system.
Super Blocks
The access roads branch out into the island streets that surround small neighborhood islands, which work in the same way as we know it from the Super Blocks project from Barcelona. The island streets act as loops with fewer connections to the access roads as a result. That way, it simplifies the entire street system.
FROM CROSSING TO MEETING POINTS
FROM PARKING TO COMMUNITY
