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RABALDER PARKEN
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• Location: MUSICON, Rabalderstræde, Roskilde, Denmark
• Design team: Nordarch, GHB
• Design Years: 2010-2011
• Construction years: 2011-2012
• Engineers: COWI
• Construction team: Hoffmann, Grindline
• Surface area (Park area): 40.000 m2 430.000 sq.ft.
• Surface area (Concrete skatepark): 2200 m2 / 24.000 sq.ft.
• Client: Roskilde Kommune
• Budget: 35.000.000 Dkr. / 4.700.000 Euros

• Project description:

Due to global climate changes, Denmark has repeatedly been hit by heavy rainstorms, causing flooded roads and houses. In order to prevent this, Denmark has initiated a series of large scale drainage projects. This project present one solution to this problem.

An industrial area in the southern part of Roskilde has up until now housed a huge area with concrete factories and storage facilities. The concrete company (UNICON) has now moved out, and the area is now undertaking a large scale city development. The area is now called MUSICON and will contain housing, office spaces, educational facilities, an indoor skatepark, studios for artists, a Rock museum etc.
Adding to these function, the area will also contain a facility that is collecting the huge amount of rainwater from the adjacent city areas.

Rabalderparken is combining this drainage function with a recreational park area. The park contains a water canal that stretches through a series of hills towards a lake area that is subject to contain the rainwater. The theme of the park is a celebration of human motion. It contains fitness equipment, bike and jogging paths, parkour equipment, trampolines, hang-out/grill areas, dancing area, a performance stage, a continuous water stream and a huge concrete skatepark. The skatepark is fully integrated into the water canal and the lake areas. In other words - The skatepark IS the water canal and the skate bowl IS the pool that can hold the rainwater in a flooding situation.

• Awards:

- Nominated by Dansk Beton as "Sustainable Concrete 2013 award". / "Bæredygtig Betonprisen 2013"
- Winner of "City planning award 2012" / "Byplanprisen 2012"
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