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Multi-usable park
Denmark

(1)       Adaptation goal:

Combine climate change adaptation with other uses.

(2)       Adaptation actions:

In September 2012, the Danish Minister for the Environment, Ida Auken, opened the Rabalder Park on the Musicon site (a new creative and educational hotspot) in Roskilde on Zealand. The park sets new standards for combining climate change adaptation measures and specialised recreational installations. The unique thing about Rabalder Park is that although the area is primarily for storm water drainage, it also serves as a skate-park for children and young people.

The idea behind the installation is that during cloudbursts the area will constitute a number of flood-retention basins which together can hold up to 23,000 cubic metres of water. This will retain the water in the basins, and avoid flooding roads and basements in adjoining properties. However, when heavy rain does not fall, as mentioned above, the area will act as a skate-park for everything from skateboards and BMX bikes to barbecues.

(3)       Further information/contact details: 

http://en.klimatilpasning.dk/recent/news/newsletter7.aspx