The narrative of the context Moving on from the geographical location, next step is zooming into the context. Here the questions is raised: Which urban structure is the project related to? Which topographical shape is considered ? And at last, is the context of the project in relation with an non-urban component? These three questions are transfering the project into preliminary analysis of the site. This step is presenting direct suggestions of what to be aware of. For example taking the first question referring to the urban structure; there is a natural difference between houses in the countryside, suburb and city centre. Relation being; the larger the urban structure the lesser greenery. Urban structure are in general facing an overload
City centre
of various service systems because of urbanisation and climate change. This is followed by the phenomenon of urban heat island that is an effect where the city obtain and raise high temperature, which have bad influence on people and infrastructure. For suburbs, the challenges are to strengthen the community, create safe neighbourhoods and enhancing the infrastructural connections. Last, the countryside is facing decay from one point of view and to another, risking disappearing by the expansion of larger cities. The city in relation to an non-urban component creates different structures when expanding. Furthermore, the topography is close related to the weather. The rainwater runoff is either going into the city or away from the city.
Valley
Ocean
Helsingør Helsingør is a harbour city and it is one out of three active connections to Sweden. This project is focusing on the city centre to address the challenges found in the juncture of multiple urban layers. Moreover, the city centre is unique because of all its preserved historical buildings (read: Design Volume). This is pushing the concept of processes in situ to think of how design with processes can be integrated in a historical context. The periphery of Helsingør is lifted by the topography while the city centre is lowered down in closer connec-
tion to the harbour. This tells us to view the flow path of the rainwater and likewise flooding areas (see analysis in design volume). Water follows gravity and seeks down. The city is centred towards the harbour and is expanding out into the country. This gives a great potential for leading the water through and around the city centre and into the harbour. Hereby separating the rainwater from the sewer systems to avoid overload of the system during the heavy rain is neccesary.
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