SLA: Climate adaptation

Combining recreational spaces, biodiversity, and cloudburst protection

SLA’s project on Sankt Kjeld’s Square and Bryggervangen shows how protection against cloudbursts can go hand in hand with green and recreational urban spaces that reduce traffic and strengthen biodiversity. The project creates new nature in the city that is aesthetic, functional, biodiverse, and sustainable. The planted area with 586 new trees of 48 local species gives Copenhageners a strong aesthetic feeling of nature right on their doorstep.

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The project protects the area from flooding by containing and delaying rainwater in numerous specially designed green urban spaces. Instead of channelling rainwater into overfilled sewers, the rainwater is instead dealt with locally and thus gives life to plants and trees as well as creating new blue-green nature experiences - in the heart of the city. The city nature solves some of the great challenges the city faces such as noise and air pollution, climate adaption, and the urban heat island effect. While the project at Sankt Kjeld’s Square and Bryggervangen centres around climate adaption, the project also focuses on the additional benefits we get from climate adaptation and nature-based design: the blue, the green, the healthy, the active and the social. In short, all that makes life in the city worth living.

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