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Blue-Green Garden City

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Blue-Green Garden City

About the city. Kokkedal, a town in the municipality of Fredensborg, has undertaken the largest climate adaptation plan to date in Denmark, called the Blue-Green Garden City. This is a project that not only safeguards against water damage but also allows to benefit from stormwater and use it for aesthetic, social and wellness purposes.

Goal

The aim of the project is to develop a climate adaptation and improve urban life.

Implementation period. Project’s implementation started in 2017

Fact

Kokkedal is a typical mono-functionally planned suburban area of the 1970s. Kokkedal suffers from social division, insecurity, low investment and flooding.

Solutions

Climate Adaptation Kokkedal covers an area of 60 hectares in the North of Sealand. The area, which is home to two large subsidized housing associations, borders the Usserød river and consequently suffered severe flooding around 2011.

This is an innovative proposal that uses the need for Landscape Based Stormwater Management (LSM) as a potential for urban redevelopment.

The Kokkedal project contains an extensive catalogue of solutions for climate adaptation and water methods. While rainwater used to be hidden underground in pipelines, rainwater management has now become visible, offering new recreational urban opportunities.

Rainwater is held in basins and volumes that have the capacity to hold a five-year occurrence. Larger rainfalls than this can still be handled without any major damage.

Rainwater is managed in a system on the surface, allowing it to be tracked from small basins to soakaways and trenches until it finally reaches the larger basins and the Usserød river. All water is directed through cleaning elements such as rainwater beds and basins.

Climate Adaptation Kokkedal consists of 35 individual projects, each contributing recreational activities for the residents of the area. For example, a garden space has been created that provides green retaining pools, and a local sports field has been enclosed by a grass-clad earth mound, ensuring that large amounts of stormwater can be held back.

The project consists of gardens, outdoor recreation areas, exercise paths, natural playgrounds, and areas that can be used for educational purposes.

Team

Schønherr, Ramboll

Timeline

In November 2017, the project received DANVA and Realdania’s Climate Award for making a project which serves as an inspiration for all future climate adaptation projects.

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