RC - Oslo, The Fjord City

Short description: 

Oslo is embarking its most adventurous harbour renewal project ever, as a string of waterfront properties in the heart of the city are put up for sale and rezoned for urban development. The aim is to reconnect the city with the sea, providing residents and visitors alike with a unique and sustainable quality of life.
Fulfilling the vision of Oslo as the Fjord City will help meet the city's need for more housing, business, recreation and cultural space, as well as improving concentrating Oslo’s commercial ports.
The total Fjord City area comprises 225 hectares, from Frognerstranda in the west to Ormsund in the southeast. Sale of these prime waterfront properties commenced in 2003 and will run through the end of the decade. The land is owned by the city of Oslo, the Oslo Port Authority, Statsbygg, The Norwegian National Rail Administration and The Norwegian Public Roads Administration.
The fjord city includes the 65-hectar Bjørvika areas where Statsbygg has under construction the new national opera house and planning for the University Museum of Cultural Heritage. Statsbygg are also developing the Vestbanen area located on the City Hall Square in the middle of the Fjord City.

Place: 
Oslo
Country: 
Norway
Region: 
Oslo

Scale

Local

Phase

Planning
Design
Realization
 
Type(s) of MILU

Interweaving: use of the same space for different functions.

Intensifying of space for one function.

Layering: use of the third dimension of space. e.g. the underground.
 
Theme(s)

RED - the urban fabric and its infrastructure.


BLUE - water-systems and water related issues.
 
Partners

Initiative:
The Municipality of Oslo, The national government


Planning and design:
Realization:
 
Lessons learned
The Fjord City has been a big and important planning task for the municipality of Oslo. It has been crucial to have a clear vision for the development and change of the whole waterfront in central Oslo.
The planning has been a cooperation between the national government, the municipality and property owners (both private and public owners).To be able to realise the plan a national road has to be relocated from being a road that cuts through the development-area to at sub sea-tunnel.This is a national responsibility.
The largest landowner of the development area is the City of Oslo, with port areas administered by Oslo Port Authority. Other landowners are e.g Statsbygg and several other public and non-public landowners.The property owners have in cooperation created a corporation.
The national level has been involved in the creation of this corporation. During this work, Statsbygg has been advising the Ministry.The Planning and Building Authority are in charge of the planning process, whilst the daily planning activities are taken care of by The Waterfront Planning Office. The Office co-operates closely with municipal and governmental bodies, landowners, large property development companies, as well as leading Norwegian and European architects, in order to plan and carry through the visions, ideas and projects. This has been an important success-factor in order to succeed in the making of a plan that has consequences for many different parties at different level.
 
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  • Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • 59.913065°, 10.752267°