Urban design proposes for the norwegian cities

• Main Author: Risques Sinke, Francesc
• Other Authors: Universitat de Girona. Escola Politècnica Superior, Chamorro Trenado, Miquel Àngel
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Urbanisme > Noruega; City planning > Norway; Alta; Bodø; Bossekop; Lenvik; Noruega; Norway; Finnmark; Finnsnes
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/7096

Alta is the biggest city in the country of Finnmark. The area of study, Bossekop, is situated 4km from the city centre. It has some commercial areas, offices, hotels and housing, mostly single family housing. The most important Norwegian road, E6 goes through Bossekop, there for it has a big traffic flow. The concept builds on the idea of two axis, one local leading from the local sports development area into the centre core, and one on a higher level, the E6. In Bodø, after analysing carefully the surroundings we reached the conclusion that it is posssible to conserve a lot of the green as well as offering the municipalities the chance to develop with several housing typologies. Nature should be preserved and with this connect directly the mountain to the sea, using the existing creek to make the water connection. In order to keep a big part of this land untouched, we suggest that the rest of the site can be developed quite densely in one of the areas and then continuously fading out in direction of the mountains. Finnsnes is an important communication point for the region with its good connections. In that way it is becoming a central point for commerce and leisure. The concept is based on the wish from the municipality of Lenvik to look upon the city’s connection to the surrounding sea and green areas, together with the wish to make the pedestrian access better and the car traffic lighter., and in that way improve the conditions in the city