- Site-specific cases
With the increasing urbanization, the design of our cities, public spaces and built environment will have a greater impact on our health and well-being. Social segregation, growing loneliness among urban dweller and lack of identification and belonging are just few of the challenges to our well-being resulting from urbanization.
The concept for the Arena Park tackles prevailing societal and social challenges through a consistent focus on social sustainability on all scales of development from landscaping to the design of dwellings. Through a hierarchy of green and urban, public and semi-public spaces across the Arena Park, the concept secures a compact, pedestrian friendly, mixed-use quarter with identifiable local areas, that foster the social sustainability and -cohesion. With the landscape as the structuring element, the concept supports social sustainability on all scales.
Site plan
Arial View of Arena Park
The major landscape approach is the green belt which draw nature into Arena Park and turns the climate challenges into social potentials:
The green belt functions as climate adaption and secures a residential area resilient towards the changing climate and cloudbursts. The water sensitive design of the landscape accentuates the rainwater and provides the basis for biodiversity as well as a lush green common zone.
With the landscape as the structuring element, the concept supports social sustainability on three scales, through:
• The green belt as a social link on city / quarter scale;
• a social network of green passages, pocket parks and squares on neighborhood scale;
• and green semi-public courtyards on block scale
