BACKGROUND INFO ON BERGEN

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Working from the  access-point, programs and activity is organized after strategic principals.

Establishing clear directions to and from the access-points is strategic to increase pedestrian activity. Including important programs from the food cycle (production, sale, consumtion, waste-management, etc) in these pedestrian travel-lines is nessasary for giving the artisan agrarian economy the visual space and context needed.

Densification by fill-in structures to create streets and blocks for inside - outside situations are important. With establishing active streets for pedestrian communication to and from the access-points one increase walking and biking accessibility. The street vs backyard differentiation achieved with the fill-in volumes is also important to create variation in public, semi-public and private happenings and situations.
This way the pedestrians can to some point choose their experiences and interactions on their way from A to B; checking out the local crops and the social life of the backyards or the working people in the shops and in the offices in the streets. 
Fill-in structures, apposed to single housing is also more energy efficient, following the principal of the penguins.

THE SCENARIO SITUATION

#1 MOBILITY

Mobility strategies in a situation connected to a system like metro, train or light rail is to develop a street structure leading to the access / departure point. A pedestrian travel circle stretches out to 5 min of walking (approx 400 mtrs), while traveling by bike stretches out to around 1000-1500 mtrs.

With densification strategies to limit building activity to surrounding access-points one save land and travel time. Developing street-structures for people (instead of cars) with shortcuts and direction towards access-points increases accessibility.