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Photo: Mogens Falk-Sørensen, Stadsarkivets fotografiske Atelier
Jernbanebyen will form the framework for a new urban development where past and present merge, providing 4,500 new homes and workplaces for 8,000 people. Jernbanebyen will be a dense city district with more than 11 hectares of green areas and 8 hectares of green streets.
In the future, many of DSB’s facilities will move out of the area, making room for a vibrant city district.
Photo: Luftfotodanmark
replaced with
green urban spaces
At Jernbanebyen, a network of car-free streets intertwine with the urban structure. Pedestrians and cyclists will be given pride of place, and trees and greenery will be close to all homes and workplaces.
The green network extends into the surrounding context and branches off as a delta of landscaped urban spaces and connections.
The development of Jernbanebyen will be guided by five robust strategies, each supporting the district’s overall plan and ensuring that its main structure and basic qualities will be maintained.
The Green Voids
A network of green urban spaces creates an overall structure and adds to its quality of life.
The Network
The network weaves landscape into the overall urban development
The Pearl Necklace
Noise management is designed as a pearl necklace of local solutions, creating a varied and eventful edge round the site.
The Everyday City
Jernbanebyen is divided into distinct smaller urban quarters, each with its own character, using the specific qualities and challenges of each place as a starting point.
The City of Production
The legacy of the area’s past as an industrial production facility is carried on into the future, and its rich building heritage is preserved and transformed.
the spine of the
development
The green voids define a network of landscaped urban spaces that connect and lend structure to the organization of Jernbanebyen. A new city district in the middle of Copenhagen with large parks and unique urban squares.
At Jernbanebyen, nature will be divided into four different types: Cultural Nature, Railway Nature, Local Nature and Infra-Nature.
Cultural Nature
Three large parks make up the Cultural Nature and connect Jernbanebyen from north to south with the surrounding green urban structures.
Railway Nature
The urban spaces along the railroad are called Railway Nature, creating a coherent connection from east to west.
Local Nature
Jernbanebyen has several unique urban spaces - all in relation to the former industrial buildings. These urban spaces will be staged and used as anchorage points in the development, giving each individual quarter a meeting place with a unique character.
Infra Nature
Jernbanebyen is an urban city district, where all residents live in close proximity to nature. It is a partially car free neighborhood where all streets are lush common areas.
leads the way
The fabric creates a Copenhagen neighborhood where all residents live in close proximity to nature. The ambition is to develop a partially car free district, contributing to an active city life, local meeting places and social communities.
At Jernbanebyen streets will be transformed into space for communities.
Photo: Chris Yarzab (flickr), Tony Webster (flickr)
The car free streets will open up space for urban nature and reduce traditional street area by up to 50%. The streets will become vegetated corridors contributing with a lush urban nature and attractive micro-climate. This creates added value for people, a pleasant city climate, and will support and enhance existing biodiversity along the railway tracks.
Roadways are reduced to only 5m in width, creating more space for life and urban nature.
An existing custom hall will be transformed into a covered urban space, housing an orangery and a locally managed café functioning as a promoter for urban life.
The landscape fabric binds the area together and creates social and green urban spaces with room for informal meeting places. The transformation of an existing hall becomes a covered urban space.
The primary green connections are also the main connections for cyclists and pedestrians. Driver-less buses connect Jernbanebyen with Copenhagen’s public transport system.
Cars will be parked in parking garages located along the periphery of the site.
become an attraction?
Jernbanebyen is located in between heavy arterial roads and railroads. It is essential that the development of the area handles the traffic noise in order to create a good living environment.
The pearl necklace absorbs the noise and becomes an attraction and a positive contribution to Jernbanebyen. The pearl necklace is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but a robust and varied approach to noise management.
The noise management is a varied and eventful collection of different functions, creating a distinctive edge along the periphery of the site.
Housing
A communal balcony will connect 4-6 apartments and create a local community and a noise screen with vegetation.
Parking garage with green facades
The parking garages buffer the area from noise, and the walls create space for vegetation.
Vertical parks
Vertical parks create an attraction for the neighboring areas.
The pearl necklace consists of local solutions and espaliers of green facades, housing developments with noise protecting balconies, strategically located parking garages, and industrial and commercial buildings.
with strong local
qualities
Jernbanebyen is organized into different neighborhoods defined by the green voids. The neighborhoods will be developed area by area, each with its own distinctive character, together creating a varied vivid city district.
The different neighborhoods ensure a variation of possibilities for attracting different types of residents and to form new communities. Each neighborhood will be differentiated with a focus on each area’s distinctive character.
The Railway Station Neighborhood
The railway station neighborhood has room for the crooked and the self-made. The area will have small building plots available for small and medium-sized developers and cohabitation.
The Central Workshop Neighborhood
The central workshop neighborhood is the heart of Jernbanebyen. The architectural uniqueness is based on the rich history and heritage found in the area. The neighborhood is organized according to the existing workshop buildings, and the heart of the area has staggered streets where losing your orientation becomes a positive result.
The Production Neighborhood
When arriving to Jernbanebyen from the west, you will be met by the production neighborhood. The existing workshop building is one of the most worthy of preservation in Jernbanebyen and will over time be transformed into new production facilities, located next to creative businesses, distinct housing typologies and institutions.
The South-west Passage
Copenhagen will get a new bicycle path, connecting Jernbanebyen with the surrounding city. The bicycle path will be connected with active urban spaces, outdoor fitness areas and active training on the top of the parking garages.
The Wedge
The wedge is centrally located in Jernbanebyen. The mixed-use neighborhood opens up toward two inner green urban spaces, creating the framework for a unique sense of community.
The Track Neighborhood
The streets will be the main attraction in the track neighborhood. They will show the way for a completely new way of living in the city. The entire neighborhood is characterized by sweeping streets with space for living, play and movement. In the middle of the city district, the existing building structure will create the framework for a new covered urban space, which all year round can accommodate events for both the local community and for the whole of Copenhagen.
about the physical
spaces but also about the
functional spaces
The production neighborhood ushers the legacy of the area’s working past into the future. The rich building heritage will be preserved and transformed, and new workshops create the breeding ground for a new growth segment of startups, creative business and culture in general.
As a continuation of the site’s former function as an industrial production facility, the project aims to be a city of production.
Jernbanebyen is a city of production, creating an ideal and inspiring framework for entrepreneurs and creative businesses to thrive in and around the existing cultural heritage. The ground floor facilities will house new workshops, ensuring a vivid city district.
Workshops in transformed industrial halls.
New flexible workshops and halls.
Small workshops on the groundfloor.
Creative businesses in the workshops.
Existing buildings will be transformed respectfully, creating new life in the cultural heritage surroundings.
From workshop to library and culture house
From engine workshop to small businesses
From workshop to offices and studios
From offices to arena to public space
