When
it comes to environment, the efforts for a greener future should begin
at home. But, do we have enabling infrastructure for this purpose? The
answer would be no in most of the cases. However, a new city design, if
adopted, could make the present compact lives greener than ever. Named
as Valley Effect, the new design promises to develop a carbon positive
ecosystem of built and natural environments. It tries to achieve the
environment-friendliness of natural valleys in a compact urban setting
with the help of interconnected towers featuring a unique model of
terraced urban farming.
At a time when lifestyles are thriving with continued negligence towards
the cause of nature and living spaces are getting more compact, the
designers have creatively utilized the building mass to provide maximum
open space in a compact urban setting. As such, each apartment will have
access to at least 50-square-feet of open garden space. Even the
sliding brise-soleil window boxes would be used growing multiple small
plants. This will allow the residents to become self-sufficient for
vegetables and many fruits. It may bring back the age-old charm of farming.
There are also provisions for renewable energy
generation. As such, the buildings would be aligned with wind patterns
to create a valley effect and to maximize the output of onsite wind turbines. Also, the exteriors of all buildings would be equipped with over 4,800 solar panels
and fiber optic light collectors ingrained into a sun shading system.
With these measures, each block would produce surplus 121 percent
electricity and also consume only about 45 percent of water. Moreover,
each apartment would have an exercise bike that would be able to feed back clean energy into the electric grid with the help of a new Plug Out system.
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