Street as City - A Copenhagen Prototype for Street Transformation
Authors
Justesen, Magnus Valdemar Obenhausen ; Jazayeri, Iman ; Göktepe, Robin
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2026
Submitted on
2026-05-28
Pages
167
Abstract
This master’s thesis explores how Mimersgade, a car-dominated residential street in Copenhagen, can be transformed into a multifunctional urban space that balances public life, climate adaptation, and mobility. Using a research-by-design, mixed-methods approach—combining GIS and hydrological analysis, traffic and microclimate studies, on-site observations and interviews, and iterative spatial prototyping—the project develops and tests a site-specific design. Informed by theories of human-centric placemaking, climate-adaptive and multifunctional street design and by targeted case studies (Bispeparken, Copenhagen Car Free(dom), Freiburg canals, and P-House Lüders), the proposal consolidates surface parking into a parking house to free the street cross-section for blue-green infrastructure organized as a canal corridor with social nodes and corridors, supported by section-based design and one-way traffic reallocation. The proposal is evaluated against criteria for hydrological performance, spatial quality, systemic integration, and implementation/replicability, and is checked against basic hydraulic principles and Danish design standards. Within acknowledged limitations (concept-level hydrology, incomplete underground data, no detailed costing), the project finds that the preconditions for transforming Mimersgade are already present and outlines a replicable system for similar Copenhagen streets.
Denne kandidatafhandling undersøger, hvordan Mimersgade, en bildomineret boliggade i København, kan omdannes til et multifunktionelt byrum, der balancerer byliv, klimatilpasning og mobilitet. Med en research-by-design, mixed-methods-tilgang—der kombinerer GIS- og hydrologiske analyser, trafik- og mikroklimastudier, stedlige observationer og interviews samt iterative rumlige prototyper—udvikler og afprøver projektet et stedsspecifikt design. Med afsæt i teorier om menneskecentreret byliv, klimatilpasning og multifunktionel gadedesign samt målrettede cases (Bispeparken, Copenhagen Car Free(dom), Freiburgs kanaler og P-hus Lüders) samler forslaget gadeparkering i et parkeringshus for at frigøre gadeprofilen til blå-grøn infrastruktur organiseret som en kanalkorridor med sociale knudepunkter og korridorer, understøttet af sektionsbaseret design og omfordeling via ensrettet trafik. Forslaget vurderes ud fra kriterier for hydrologisk ydeevne, rumlig kvalitet, systemisk integration og implementering/replikerbarhed og kontrolleres mod grundlæggende hydrauliske principper og danske dimensioneringskrav. Inden for anerkendte begrænsninger (konceptuel hydrologi, ufuldstændige underjordiske data, ingen detaljeret økonomi) finder projektet, at forudsætningerne for at omdanne Mimersgade allerede er til stede, og skitserer et replikerbart system for lignende københavnske gader.
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