Smart Sustainable cities
Interior Design with Sustainability BA Hons
Atousa Ghoreishi
Critical Report, Winter 2017
Introduction
Why sustainable cities?
A sustainable city is a city that is taking a smart, long-term collaborative approach to tools the economic, social and environmental challenges that appear when more and more people come together in compact, dense areas, pull already scarce resources. In another word, sustainable cities brings the building blocks for modify humanity into a low carbon economy with improving socio-economic benefits, as citizens by given access to services and opportunities to raise their quality of life and investment outlook. The worldwide population is set to raise more than nine billion people by 2050 and seventy percent of them will live in cities, according by the United Nations. At the same time, information and communication of technology is making bigger its extend, with the expectation that fifty billion devices will join by 2020.
http://www.un.org/en/index.html
There is a great potential for information and communication of technology to be an enabler for sustainable economic, environmental and social development in cities. To design a sustainable future is not just a choice but also it has become essential. Sustainable design is about reducing the environmental footprint, it is about doing as little as possible to achieve as much as possible.
But also let’s not forget that sustainability is not just about buildings but could also happen at all scales from products and infrastructures to buildings and cities. It’s a major that the next stage of Architects and Designers in Dubai are able to design at all different scales to grow a dissimilar of solutions, which is necessary if we are here to deliver for a greater quality of life.
MASDAR City
Abu Dhabi
First of all, for a city to be sustainable it must to environ the three main keys of sustainability: Environmental, Economic and Social sustainability. In the final analysis the key aim of any sustainable city should be supply residents and workers with gains of the quality of life together with the lowest environmental steps. A good sustainable city is the one city where people like to live, work and visit. MASDAR city in Abu Dhabi have each of these standards. Another example is Dubai sustainable city which is more sustainable measuring system and has finished in 2016.
Dubai, also recently has made more public plans for extra sustainable schemes such as the Desert Rose, 14,000-hectare smart city supposed to lodge 20,000 plots for Emiratis and will cost 20 billion AED to be done and build. There is a pattern appearance from these evolutions the United Arab Emirates is already come out as a worldwide leader in sustainability. This design became more and more evident, after Dubai recently set marks for itself to turn one of the most sustainable cities by 2020.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com
Baharash Architecture was selected out of the well known group universal firms invited for a design contest for an outstanding master plan concept for the phase 2 of Dubai sustainable city. The power of seeing the city surround three main columns of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. The master plan is technically very careful, exceeding the best rehearse in environmental construct technologies go with buildings organisation and original architectural typologies of the landscape and land use that have consequence an excellent economic viability. The city supplies very high edge of social interaction between focusing first and foremost on strong community links and environmental stewardship.
Contests entries were be given from USA, Lebanon, Jordan, UK, and UAE. The overall city was Master Planned by an Australian planning firm. The city was then divided into two phases, with the phase 2 work incorporate in this universal Competition design.
Phase 2 of Dubai Sustainable City to be composed of a Mixed Use Zone, A Juma Mosque, an Institute for Ecological Engineering also a museum & planetarium, a “Green” School for primary and of course an Eco-Resort Hotel, Country Club and Equestrian Centre.
Dubai Sustainable City will be the first suburban community of its kind in Dubai and is suppose to meet the highest environmental standards by embrace a sustainable proceed towards in its search to become a geographical leader in economic tourism and worldwide environmental defence.
Baharash Architecture – Award Winning Architecture & Design Studio
Elements of MASDAR
Components of Dubai Sustainable City and Facilities
THE BUFFER ZONE
A 30 – meter wide buffer zone separated the Sustainable City. This greenbelt of 2500 trees generates a significant ecological natural element and gives to bring down air and noise pollution. The trees are in ordered into three layers, up to 10 meters high. The first skin of trees is used mostly for noise and dust increase, and gives shadows for the horse path. The second skin gives shadows on the cycle path, while the third skin is part of the city’s prolific landscape. The 4km roundtrip horse path is barriers and reachable to residents and gusts. Managed by The Sustainable City Equestrian Club, the horse path gives a attractive outfall for pleasure and fitness in the city. The 4km roundtrip cycle path is unconnected from the carriageway by a bios wale which gather and sifters storm water runoff thereby recharging the groundwater table. The carriageway is covered with interlock pavers to let for some permeability for storm water. The suburban side of the carriageway has a 5km rubberised slowly path to motivates an active lifestyle.
http://www.masdar.ae
THE EQUESTRIAN CENTRE
The Sustainable City Equestrian Centre will give residents the standards of riding classes from 3years of age to adults up to the halfway level. The centre will give 30-minute lessons for novices and 45-minute for medians.The centre will have 32 well-schooled Arabian, pure breed and mix-breed horses. Well skilled in structors and up skill brush will look after not only the horses but also the younger beginners on the lead restraint.
The Equestrian Centre would also give After School Club to schools in Dubai, which would cover over half an hour of firm administration and half an hour horse riding. The new provision will offer trail rides down with the four kilometre sand path, every day pony rides and carriage services for wedding service, birthday parties and even photo shoots.
http://www.masdar.ae
THE RESIDENTIAL CLUSTERS
The Sustainable City consist of 5suburban bunch, housing which in total of 500 villas. Attach to the Central Green Spine that gives the length of the City, each bunch consists of 90 Courtyard Villas, 8 Garden and 2 Signature villas. Each bunch is named after a type of palm date tree.
The L-shaped two storey villas also would mach ergonomic distraction with contemporary scheme to meet the highest environmental show standards, not have the understanding on a charming living space. The third and top floor would gives an enough roof terrace, much of which is shaded by the homes self effacing solar panels. This area is perfect for diverting and relaxing, especially in Dubai’s winter times.
http://www.masdar.ae
THE SUSTAINABLE PLAZA
The Sustainable Plaza would cover a 15,000-square metre mixed-use area, find near the entrance of The Sustainable City. It consist of 5low-rise group with shops, restaurants, cafes, of offices and apartments available for rental spin from studios to 1 or 2 bedrooms.
The main key of the retail area is to gives enough services to the public to support their families, whilst suppling the aims of provision to earn other residents in the Dubai land area to make the most of use, thereby securing an extra salary for the
general public.
http://www.masdar.ae
MOSQUE
The Mosque would give the house 700 worshippers and is planed combine original technologies to keep down the energy and water devouring.
This state of the art mosque is highly wrap, covered with LED lighting and is cooled using high organisation AC systems.
The mosque is covered with solar water heating systems and uses water organisation covered and fix appliance. All water from the mosque’s ablution area is pile up and serve using the city’s grey water behaviour towards provision.
http://www.masdar.ae
JUNIOR INNOVATION CENTRE
With The Sustainable City Junior Innovation Centre, Diamond Developers points to give an casual academic environment that gives for schools in the UAE to take a dissimilar approach when teaching students about the environmental difficulties the world is seeing. The Junior Innovation Centre will be a single and original practical centre with an in depth heart on sustainability and an thrill and various mixture of indoor and outdoor hands on activities and expeditions. This is all about getting children, young people, and adults to see the brand new choices for their future.
http://www.masdar.ae
Hotel INDIGO
In its search to become a geographical leader in eco-tourism and worldwide environmental defence, Hotel Indigo, housed inside The Sustainable City, will be a net zero energy structure where 100 percent of its energy requires will be meet by solar power.
The Hotel architecture would give a low rise, self effacing design which snuggles exquisitely inside The Sustainable City’s costly leave. All waste water manufacture by the hotel will be reuse, and all material waste will be sorted at spring and then reuse to meet the highest environmental, social and commercial sustainability standards.
http://www.masdar.ae
HOSPITAL
The sustainable city club is a world class wellness station consist of two main keys: Rehabilitation Centre and Sports Complex, that will work for the community.
The sports complex will also have a gym, sauna and jacuzzi and tennis and basketball courts, outdoor fitness stations and also cycling and jogging paths. The green energy rehabilitation hospital is the first of its kind in the MENA region, as well as the first to offer medical tourism packages for all exceptional requires, disable and autistic children for the entire district and will have 30 inpatient bed provision to loge All paediatric special needs medical treatment, while the outpatient facility will be the largest medical provision for physiotherapy, advanced rehabilitation, and the most advanced hydrotherapy structures in the MENA region.
http://www.masdar.ae
School
The Sustainable City is structure an universal school, which will reassessment teaching and learning environments. The school will set a quality for world class education that combine sustainability in all its forms into and out of high academic qualities and original teaching applications.
The school will come behind a educational program that will addition the continuing-minded sustainable model of The Sustainable City. The school will give a teaching that fix a love of learning, an gratefulness of green living at the same time as growing well rounded, globally intelligence, creative issue solvers.
http://www.masdar.ae
MASDAR neighbourhood
Strong movement on construction of major new MASDAR City development
This city, one of the world’s most sustainable city developments that is meeting its strong forward movement on the building of MASDAR organisations neighbourhood, a capital mixed-use growth of offices, residential, retail and public open space which is aim for achievement by 2020.
This project, which is part of the most intensive period of enlargement in MASDAR City’s history, will link the centre MASDAR city with the North Car Park, supplying more than 100,000 square metres of new process.
Alternative means of transportation will be provided for the duration of the closure.
The MASDAR organisations Neighbourhood is the biggest new process which currently underway in this City and building work is forward movement very well, so people are very excited about the extra facility this will bring. This phase of the enlargement means that they need to close the PRT for the time being, following seven years of constant operation in which it has moved more than 2 million passengers. They would also have made a careful delivery to make sure that there is no disruption for people within the City.
During the short term closure of the PRT, this city would also continue to work with industry partners to work on the next phase of its independent mobility network, which was known during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. The extension will operate at the same time the existing PRT and cover a 1-kilometre route, with two new stops linking MASDAR Institute, the head office of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the recently announced “My City Centre MASDAR” shopping mall.
http://www.masdar.ae MASDAR; green city or ghost city ?
10 Years of Clean Energy and Sustainable Development Ambition
When the MASDAR first step was informed 10 years ago, it was address by a mix of satisfaction and suspicion. But MASDAR also has a clean technology investment capital of a renewable energy enlargement and deployment category, a foundation that would offer out millions in force to scale clean energy development and social undertaking worldwide and while not actually inside the MASDAR planning, its organisations, a degree holder school that has an progress cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
But most reporter focused on this City, which had ambitious goals bearing in mind no other project like this exists on Earth. But before MASDAR could even open in 2010, plans were hold back during the worldwide financial critical point of 2008-2009, while which the nearby emirate of Dubai needed a deliver that whole into the decades of billions of dollars. Abu Dhabi agreed to give Dubai an investment lifeline, but that would mean some projects, including this City, would have to be on hold.
A city that was at the begging attacked for achievement by this year had its long term finish date force back to 2030, a resolve which set free lot of disapproval. Ideas such as a car free, zero carbon for general public with independent cars mixed up workers, visitors and residents under the city were put to the other side, because they were either impossible plans or not financially workable. MASDAR’s team tasked with progress the city had to focus and think about the city’s overall master plan. This city had to be as sustainable as possible, but also had to turn commercially workable. The risk in making the city as the first planned, and wishing that the people and businesses would come, most that it would have likely turned in an empty city. So as a replacement, MASDAR get used to the market real life, and delivered out sections of the city for process one section at a time, with the states that developers keep alive a certain building rating.
In general, the company says buildings in this city are about 40 percent more water and energy saving than comparable to the existing buildings in Abu Dhabi.
Meanwhile, the company focused on arranging its marked economic zone in order to pul clean technology sets and other companies to this city. From 50 companies in 2012, then 200 companies in 2014, that number is now over 360.
About 10 years ago, few companies, or residents, would have wanted to locate at this city, as it really was in the middle of nowhere. But Abu Dhabi has grown far behind the original island on which it was establish, Abu Dhabi International Airport is in the middle of a massive expansion and Jebel Ali, now a big business centre in Dubai, is only a 45-minute drive away. This city not only has the chance to become a large business and economic centre, but with more shops and restaurants, it could also become the relaxation centre of what is best tells as suburban Abu Dhabi.
As some visitors would tell, you cannot call a place a “city” without anyone living there and a fair point as the only residents had been the students in the accommodations at MASDAR Institute.
So while all eyes will continue to zoom on MASDAR City’s growth, it is very important to remind that the company is still go abroad on renewable energy investment efforts across the world. While some of this city projects, such as the London Array seaward wind power process, are massive, many make an effort to increase energy access in some of the world’s imperfect countries, from Egypt to Afghanistan to the South Pacific. All this activity is going on regardless of recording low oil prices, which have been ruin for government budgets throughout the region. If anything, the criticism of this city has motivated its staff to do what they can to help succeed in Abu Dhabi’s goal of becoming a city in 2030 to a very great unrecognisable from what it is today.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk
http://steamgreen.unibo.it
http://www.wired.co.uk
WHERE GREEN IS A WAY OF LIFE
BY AN INDIAN ECONOMIST, DR CHANDRASHEKAR HARIHARAN
With planning for the coming ecological disaster, Zero-Energy-Driven (ZED), the market face of BCIL (Biotech Consortium India Limited), has been an operative crusader in the kingdom of eco sustainability. ZED has been building less urban living in a way usually is addresses problems which is related to water, energy and waste. Each of eco sensitive homes generate by BCIL are a hundred per cent self governing and seventy per cent independent of the power gives panel.
Rainwater harvesting, ground water to top up and other water keeping methods constructed each ZED home water positive. The solar lit residences has also like the liberty of power since they not only have firm, pollution free, home generated power, but can some days gives back to the grating, in the long run, when the government allows such a rule.
Every ZED home saves 100,000 litres of water a year, and more than 100,000 Kilo Watt per hour of power every year. These are not select to ZED homes. Any one of us can future proof our homes and cut our city some flexibility by absorbing some of the smart technologies that are easily accessible with specialist.
ZED has been foundation away of Bangalore since 1994. Each step it has taken by ZED in its journey of over two decades has been in the way of replaying the good look and helping the city to answer to the challenge of increase. On the evening before of the World Environment Day it is good enough purpose for us to review and redefine Bangalore to make it a habitable city.
http://www.mybangalore.com
T-ZED HOMES
Bangalore City in India By ZED group
T-ZED is located at Bangalore. This 5 hectare site consist of 95 homes set up on the idea of sustainable staff.
The great fact of this skill lies in the proof, that modern comfort qualities can still be come while link with the truth of sustainable structure environment, under the scope of the challenges present by real estate market mechanisms and cost restriction.
The objective of BCIL was to make a campus for a self-reliant community, with independence in water and energy connected problems and processes for Solid waste and wastewater administrations.
Each detail of T-ZED has been planed to protect natural resources and to have very little clash on the environment. In these homes, built-in, custom made environment-friendly, zero electricity refrigerators, under control air conditioning plan on 100% on fresh air data, and built-in energy logical lights are belong the features that help to bring down energy consumption in the home while making sure the comfort levels and commanding a higher market value.
T-ZED is so called because its aims at making less the carbon emissions in the entire life cycle of the building without agreement on the high energy life style of the residents.
T-ZED is the first residential scheme in India to have searched for Carbon credits or Certified Emission Reduction under the Clean Development Mechanism capability.
The scheme has been worked out in the direction of achieving this common goal, by labelling the these six main areas design, building material, water, waste, quality of air and energy management through innovative interventions.
http://zed.in Elements of T-ZED HOMES
Components of Bangalore Sustainable City and Facilities
DESIGN
The entire number of houses is based on the carrying volume of the land: to make sure the independence in water the number of water harvested from the once a year rainfall is planned and offers the provide of volume of the land which is split by the once a year average consumption of a modern family, giving at last the highest numbers for the agreement.
The master plan consists in two side by side four floor structures including a street for pedestrian and vehicles movements through it. The south facing structures are part into blocks in case to provide highest natural light to the street and homes located in the second row of structures. These spaces called E-zone are designed as garden for relaxation.
http://www.archidev.org
MATERIAL
T-Zed uses structure technologies and materials like stone and mud that makes less carbon emission through reduction on assets and embodied energies.
Biotech Consortium India Limited has applied filler slabs, include fly ash blocks, to save the total of steel and cement used.
External walls are designed using soil-stabilised blocks laterite blocks and finishing use with fine waterproof skin. This is to make sure that surfaces are non wasted, need no external paint requests and are specially well organised.
Green roofs or sky gardens also give to the thermal comfort of the residence. These supply a planting space for every home while plate as thermal protection for border and smaller built spaces. Each sky garden has lightweight cover and coir part instead of heavier soil, and would bring water via a dribble system.
Rubber-wood, a non-forest timber, is designed for door screens and as flooring. Palm wood has been designed for external walkway decor. They have also used flatten coir door panels for the door screens, while bamboo compound supply roofing for part of the club and the interior woodwork in places. These are local funds that use less energy to produce, so would reducing carbon emissions.
http://www.archidev.org
WATER
A plenty and secure water provides system is also planed, using the rainwater gathered from the roofs, which is stored in exterior aquifers, through a system of unload, percolation holes, watercourse and wells. About 44 recharge wells are dug to help water percolation through the ground into the exterior zone. Four bore wells act as hold up for water in very great conditions of the need of harvested water, these wells would supply with sand filters systems.
Solar water forces attract the water from the exterior aquifers into a movement boxes from where its redirect thereby making it clean and drinkable. Then its sent to tiny head up box for every day warehouse before it expand the houses. Hot water is also always ready as solar water heaters have been designed.
There is no sewerage loop for this campus. All wastewater is operated, through a task of filtration, refresh and ready to be use again for gardens water in a way that such water in the end filer into the open wells and so finishing the links of use and generation. This activated water also would find it way into the water storage space room for each single house.
http://www.archidev.org
ENERGY
Concentrated zone temperature reduction system and air conditioning method apply an ammonia based chilling unit (non ozone depleting product) has been supplied to the campus. Such master plan would allow large economy of scale and also means that there are no compressors in the single refrigeration units fixed in each home. This in turn allows better management of cooling requires and more space for storage inside each fridge.
Clever lighting systems mixed motion sensors, ambient light sensors and timers to make sure that lights are switched off when not needed. Compact fluorescent lamps and light gives out diodes (LED’s) are used for typical areas, cutting power consumption by up to 80 per cent while protecting lighting organisation.
Each home also would have “conscience meters”, detector electric watts and water consumption. An electrical watt- meter fitted in each home shows the wattage used at a specific time and thus permit users to record their power consumption and establish organisation. Meters on the kitchen and bathroom taps help to record the volume of water used in litres.
http://www.archidev.org
WASTE
Kitchen wastes are separate into organic and inorganic wastes. Organic waste would use for the varmint arranging pits where they are transform into Vermicomposting, a nutrient-rich natural food and soil conditioner to be utilised for the garden.
Black water from the toilets and bathroom begin toward the Sewage Treatment Plant, an anaerobic digester where seventy per cent of the biological matter is faster. Grey water begins to a decentralised water towards system, which then goes through an root zone treatment system. This water is used for irrigation of herbs, plants and grass and finally joins the superficial aquifer.
http://www.archidev.org
AIR
T-Zed’s Air Conditioning bring 100% fresh-air set side by side to the regular air conditioning, which obtains only 80% fresh air in over 24 hours of effort.
http://www.archidev.org
SOME ACHIEVEMENT
• T-Zed is a campus that has no water give link from the outside.
• There is no sewerage link for this campus. All wastewater is used and reused for gardens in a way which water after some time filters into the open wells and so whole the loop of use and generation.
• This is India’s first centre air conditioned (with no CFC and HCFC) residential campus.
• The Capital economy about 20,000 tonnes of Carbon emissions.
• The Revenue savings about 1500 tonnes of Carbon emissions.
• T-zed ingest only 60 per cent of energy request of a 100 houses anywhere else. Residents pay 30 % less on power and 20 % less on monthly conservations.
Every resident saves Rs. 12,000/on an annual basis.
http://www.archidev.org
http://zed.in