UGAKEI CIRCLES IN JAPAN
Ugakei Circles is a sustainable tourism project located on the fringe of one of Japans most populated areas. The project marks a new shift towards low impact regenerative tourism
Partner in charge: Flemming Rafn Thomsen
Employees: Anders Juul Jensen, Kirstine Lorentsen, Christian Kuczynski, Anna Sissela Michalsdotter, Sofie Mandrup Andreassen, Jeppe Ecklon, Max Moriyama, Manabu Yamaya, Liane Filtenborg Laustsen
Client: City of Copenhagen, Greater Copenhagen Utility (HOFOR), Areal Renewal Project
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Type: Prequalified project competition. 1st prize.
Role: Landscape and masterplan
Size: 35,000 m2 (380,000 sf)
Cloudburst Capacity: 22,600 m3 (800,000 ft3)
Team: COWI, THIRD NATURE and Platant
Period: 2014-inaugurated december 2019
Everything is like before, and yet not. Time and climate change have caught up, which is why we have lowered some of the parks spaces to collect water during cloudburst. A levee has been created in the outline of the park that can hold onto the rainwater. Both the everyday rain and the extreme rain amounts. In dry periods the levee can also be used as for play and as a bench for sitting. Enghaveparken is now ready for the next 100 years of water challenges.
Enghaveparken has been an important green space at Vesterbro for more than 90 years. A respite for the working class living in the neighborhood. The park is built as a strict neoclassical park with a reflecting pool, geometric axes, playground and stage. With the challenges like rising population growth and more frequent cloudburst, there is a need to rethink our urban spaces smarter and more multifunctional. Enghaveparken has therefore been selected to become a part of the overall cloudburst strategy for Vesterbro. The park is one of 300 cloudburst projects that the City of Copenhagen and Greater Copenhagen Utility (HOFOR) plan to finish in the next 20 years to protect Copenhagen against future flooding. The listed park has been transformed into a climate project with a 22.600 m3 water reservoir. The transformation of the park has turned the water challenges to a variety of new experiences for recreation and interaction.
The large green and popular park is fenced and protected from the outside world. It appears as a closed universe with it owns poetic, lush and fairytalelike-atmosphere. Here you can put your everyday life behind, charge the batteries and respite. The avenue of trees creates space and room for each function; the foyer, the Fountaingarden, the Rosegarden, The Multi Pitch, the stage, the playground and Library garden. Everything in its place.
Oveview of Enghaveparken under construction, where you can see the different areas take form. In the back ground is Carlsberg Byen. Foto: Astrid Maria Rasmussen.
Carlsberg Byen is the water catchment area for Enghaveparken, which means that the rainwater that falls in the area naturally will flow towards Enghaveparken. The everyday rain from the roofs of Carlsberg Byen will be led to Enghaveparken and be collected in a 2000 m3 underground reservoir built by Greater Copenhagen Utility. The collected rainwater can be used for sweepers and watering the trees of Copenhagen. The recycling of rainwater will spare the use of clean
Enghaveparken has been transformed to store 22.600 m3 rainwater. In order to improve recreative functions and store large amounts water the Multi Pitch, Rosegarden and Watergarden are lowered areas to collect water. When the underground reservoir is filled the water is led to the Reflecting Pool and thereafter to the Rosegarden reservoir. We have used the park’s existing 1 m terrain drop from west to east to establish a levee. The levee is 1m high at Enghavevej and functions
The levee is the last reservoir in the surface water management in Enghaveparken and it is only supposed to function is extreme cases of flooding. At extreme cloudbursts the gates in the levee will automatically be raised and the park will be filled with water. In the daily use the water will tell the story of the Climate Park and the water will be
According to the original design and drawings from 1927, Arne Jacobsen’s stage and pavilions were the central objects in Enghaveparken. The structure in the park has been preserved and enforced with the restoration of the tree alleys going through the park. The different areas in the park are formed in Enghaveparken’s original character and designed with great additions of new experiences. The
Neoclassicism is characterized as robust architecture. Its clear structure gives way to the contrast, framing and emphasizing details in a simple and understandable geometry. With a clear structure, the rooms are programmed with great variety and without hierarchy. The access to the park has also been renewed with two new entrances. The spaces within the park have been visually and physically connected. The number of benches has been increased and supplemented with informal recreational areas on edges on the lowered part of the Multi Pitch and the Rosegarden.
The Enghavepark is a green breathing space for people and animals. The urban nature is for everyone, a picnic on trimmed grass, for people/visitors who enjoy flowers in all seasons, and people who pass by. 83 new trees have been planted in the park, spread across 10 different varieties. Most are planted in connection with the re-establishment of the alleys. The biodiversity in the garden is further enhanced by
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