Friday, September 25, 2009
Solar City, a residential suburb of Linz, which is a candidate as the future ECO-SUSTAINABLE PLANET
"The amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface in one hour contains enough energy to meet global energy needs for an entire year," said Susan Hockfield, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
Countless itesima part of that amount becomes the metaphor of a neighborhood. We are in Linz, Austria. The sun plays a role here is so important from the energy point of view there are reasonable grounds to talk about solar city. Solar City is a new residential area a few miles from the center of Linz, a model of sustainability, applied to an entire distretto urbano.
Solar City è il futuro, o meglio, dovrebbe esserlo. Siamo diventati abbastanza bravi a progettare il singolo edificio a basso consumo , la casa passiva o addirittura attiva. Un esempio è quella costruita quest’anno nella periferia della cittadina danese di Aarhus e ideata da Rikke Lidholdt: una casa non solo autosufficiente dal punto di vista energetico , ma addirittura in grado di produrre più energia di quella necessaria all’abitazione stessa.Se vogliamo ragionare ad un vero risparmio energetico , dobbiamo ragionare a un progetto di quartiere , aspettando quello della città.
Solare City è il fiore all’occhiello , almeno nel metodo. Is not alone. Similar experiences are in Freiburg, in the districts of Vauban and Rieselfeld. And before that in London, in the district's pioneering Bed-Zed, designed by Bill Dunster.
the European Capital of Culture 2009, Linz, capital of culture can be defined as sustainable. It can do so for some time, since the first launch of a social housing policy to lower energy consumption was in the early '90s, when the city council commissioned the town planning veteran Viennese Roland Rainer's new regional and urban master plan for a new residential district, planned with foresight, to accommodate up to 25 000 inhabitants.
In those years about 12 thousand people were looking for accommodation in the Austrian city, but did not offer sufficient space within the urban area. At that time was high consumption of fossil fuels as the main cause of global warming. Thus was born the idea of \u200b\u200bSolar City, a large project entirely designed according to criteria of eco-sustainability on a large scale.
The designated area, around Pichling (7 km south to the center of Linz), is immersed in a region characterized by small lakes and marshes of the Traun-Danube. The architect Herzog, a pioneer in sustainable design since the '70s, he was responsible for coordinating a team of qualified designers. The objective was to deal with the principles developed in so-called eco-buildings, the complexity of the urban scale in a delicato.Il all thanks to funding from Brussels, and a financial settlement with 12 construction companies profit (margin maximum gain, 3%).
Also in '95 he started the architectural design. In 2001 he left the building. Today 3,200 people live in Solar City, likely to increase. The structure was planned in a manner typical of the ecology of Central European culture: the search for urban density, social mix and flexible to offer different possibilities of use of housing, some free market, others of a social nature.
The project is organized around the 4-node multi-functional, four nuclei arranged around a central square in the Tower Centre, which brings together services and facilities including the library, community center, health center, pharmacy, banks and shops. Another node in non-residential vocation is the Centre School, with primary school, nursery, and integrated activities. Each area is easily reached on foot. The car use is discouraged.
A subway connects Linz-Pichling is at the heart of the city. A network of cycle and pedestrian links the various parts the neighborhood and nearby lakes.
In the city there is a true sampling of sustainability: solar energy to generate electricity and hot water, controlled ventilation with heat recovery, ground control units for heating and cooling air, the separation of water drainage and rainwater harvesting, to the separation of urine and their shipment to farmland through the use of special toilets. Every garden has a portion maintained by an individual, and is answerable to the community. The same attention is paid to the quality of public spaces for children's play and leisure. All this the result of a policy di lungo periodo
Pubblicato da MADYUR venerdì, settembre 25, 2009
Countless itesima part of that amount becomes the metaphor of a neighborhood. We are in Linz, Austria. The sun plays a role here is so important from the energy point of view there are reasonable grounds to talk about solar city. Solar City is a new residential area a few miles from the center of Linz, a model of sustainability, applied to an entire distretto urbano.
Solar City è il futuro, o meglio, dovrebbe esserlo. Siamo diventati abbastanza bravi a progettare il singolo edificio a basso consumo , la casa passiva o addirittura attiva. Un esempio è quella costruita quest’anno nella periferia della cittadina danese di Aarhus e ideata da Rikke Lidholdt: una casa non solo autosufficiente dal punto di vista energetico , ma addirittura in grado di produrre più energia di quella necessaria all’abitazione stessa.Se vogliamo ragionare ad un vero risparmio energetico , dobbiamo ragionare a un progetto di quartiere , aspettando quello della città. Solare City è il fiore all’occhiello , almeno nel metodo. Is not alone. Similar experiences are in Freiburg, in the districts of Vauban and Rieselfeld. And before that in London, in the district's pioneering Bed-Zed, designed by Bill Dunster.
the European Capital of Culture 2009, Linz, capital of culture can be defined as sustainable. It can do so for some time, since the first launch of a social housing policy to lower energy consumption was in the early '90s, when the city council commissioned the town planning veteran Viennese Roland Rainer's new regional and urban master plan for a new residential district, planned with foresight, to accommodate up to 25 000 inhabitants.
In those years about 12 thousand people were looking for accommodation in the Austrian city, but did not offer sufficient space within the urban area. At that time was high consumption of fossil fuels as the main cause of global warming. Thus was born the idea of \u200b\u200bSolar City, a large project entirely designed according to criteria of eco-sustainability on a large scale.
The designated area, around Pichling (7 km south to the center of Linz), is immersed in a region characterized by small lakes and marshes of the Traun-Danube. The architect Herzog, a pioneer in sustainable design since the '70s, he was responsible for coordinating a team of qualified designers. The objective was to deal with the principles developed in so-called eco-buildings, the complexity of the urban scale in a delicato.Il all thanks to funding from Brussels, and a financial settlement with 12 construction companies profit (margin maximum gain, 3%).
Also in '95 he started the architectural design. In 2001 he left the building. Today 3,200 people live in Solar City, likely to increase. The structure was planned in a manner typical of the ecology of Central European culture: the search for urban density, social mix and flexible to offer different possibilities of use of housing, some free market, others of a social nature.
The project is organized around the 4-node multi-functional, four nuclei arranged around a central square in the Tower Centre, which brings together services and facilities including the library, community center, health center, pharmacy, banks and shops. Another node in non-residential vocation is the Centre School, with primary school, nursery, and integrated activities. Each area is easily reached on foot. The car use is discouraged. A subway connects Linz-Pichling is at the heart of the city. A network of cycle and pedestrian links the various parts the neighborhood and nearby lakes.
In the city there is a true sampling of sustainability: solar energy to generate electricity and hot water, controlled ventilation with heat recovery, ground control units for heating and cooling air, the separation of water drainage and rainwater harvesting, to the separation of urine and their shipment to farmland through the use of special toilets. Every garden has a portion maintained by an individual, and is answerable to the community. The same attention is paid to the quality of public spaces for children's play and leisure. All this the result of a policy di lungo periodo
Pubblicato da MADYUR venerdì, settembre 25, 2009
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