The city - aerotropolis - at the Oslo airport will begin to be built in 2019-2020, the first buildings will be commissioned there in 2022, and the project will take thirty years to complete. We are talking about an area of one hundred hectares, where at least a million square meters of hotels, exhibition pavilions, offices, housing, logistics centers, entertainment and cultural facilities will be sold.
Oslo Airport City will be the first "energy plus" aerotropolis, meaning it will generate more electricity than it uses: the surplus is planned to be sold to nearby municipalities and companies. OAC plans to use unmanned electric vehicles, automatic lighting systems, "smart" technologies in the field of transport, waste collection and recycling, and security. State-owned Gardermoen is the most digital airport in Europe, so this approach is not surprising, as is the focus on green technologies, part of Norway's national policy, which strives, despite its own oil, to ditch fossil resources.
The layout is based on pedestrian convenience, thoughtful density levels by area, public ground floors, and a car-free center where no point is more than five minutes' walk from a public transport stop. Along with the expected centers of business and transportation, a large park has been conceived with various types of leisure activities. The park and other green areas are designed, among other things, for Gardermoen's employees, whose number is to increase to 40,000 by 2050 (now there are twenty thousand).
