ENBE final project

A PROJECT REPORT ON“ The Built Environment”

TITLE OF THE PROJECT REPORT“ The Sky-City”

ForMalaysian population

ByPeerun Bibi Ameerah

(0313939)

IN PARTIAL FULFLLMENT OF FOUNDATION PROGRAM IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

TAYLOR’S UNIVERSITY(APRIL 2013)

ENBE | Final Project | Part A – Report | The Future City Representation

Table of content

1. Introduction………………………………………….………12. Acknowledgment …………………………………………... 13. Summary/Abstract ………………………………..............…24. About city 4.a) Difference between city and Town…………………….3 4.b) what is a city made of?...................................................3 4.c) what make a city Grew?.................................................45. Comparison for the types of cities…………………………… 5.a. Ancient City……………………………………...……5 5.b. Present and Future city………………………….…..6-86. Shape of the city………………………………………..……9 6.a) How do I became with the square zone…………..….10 6.b) How do I became with the star zone………...............10 7. The interior Design………………………………………....118. Zoning………………………………………………......12-139. Focus point of the city………………………...…….……...1410.Activities………………………………………………..…1511.Place of worship………………………………………..….1512. Transportation…………………………………………….. 12.a) Streets…………………………………………...…..16 12.b) Vehicles……………………………………………..1713. Energy…………………………………………………….. 13.a) Solar Energy………………………………………...17 14. Utilities and Amenities………………………………..…..1815. How do they get and sustain their resources……………...18

15. Conclusion…………………………………………….….19

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1-Introduction

To innovate is a never-ending process of man. The present modern

world is almost mechanized, and most of the tasks are

computerized controlled by machines. Yet, there are many

drawbacks that prevail. The concept of future city is an example of a

nearly perfect city. The idea behind it is that the inhabitants

dwelling there do not face any sort of inconvenience.

2-Acknowledgments

This project is a golden opportunity for learning and myself development.

I consider myself very lucky and honored to have so many wonderful

people lead me through in completion of this project.

My grateful thanks to my tutorial lecturer Ms. Delliya who in spite of

being extraordinarily busy with her duties, took time out to hear, guide

and keep me on the correct path. Not only for this project but also for all

projects done in this semester.

I would also like to thanks Miss Norma and Mr. Wan by given us lectures

and tips in order to monitored my progress and arranged facilities to make

this final project easier. Even if they were not my tutorials lecturers, they

deserve my thanks.



3-Summary / Abstract

This study was to:

-To expose the elements of the natural and built environment in their

basic unit, form and function.

-To show symbiotic relationship of the elements of the natural and built

environment.

-To question, analyze and articulate the impact between natural and built

environment

It was required to:

-To explain the different features of the natural and built environment by

studying the fundamentals such as natural topography, landscape, space,

building and infrastructure.

-To distinguish and compare the different progress of the built

environment by considering the natural topography, landscape, space,

building and foundation

-To examine and evaluate the different phase of the built environment by

looking at the natural geography, background, space, building and

infrastructure

Understand how to link ideas through observation and using different

means to represent information of the natural and built environment.


4-About City

4.a) Difference between city and Town

-Cities are larger than towns and more densely populated.

-The center of power mainly rests in the cities and not in the towns. Most

of the important administrative offices are situated in the cities.

- Well planned and have proper sanitation, drinking water, roads and

other modern services.

4.b) what is a city made of?-Shelter (housing), food, and water

-Electricity for buildings and streets

-A safe way of dealing with the garbage

-Schools so that they can get an education

-Governments

-Transportation so that people can get from one place to another.

-Places for recreation such as museums, sports arenas, concert halls and

parks; shops so they can buy what they need, from clothing to food.

These are "services" available in a city.

Electricity needs electric lines, water needs plumbing cars and buses need

roads, schools need buildings and so on. These are part of a city's

"infrastructure".


4.c) what make a city Grew?

3 main things:

-Economic growth:

-Natural increase: a statistic of number of people born minus the number

of deaths. When the rate of “ natural increase” is positive its means the

population grows and so its contribute to the growth of a city.

-rural-urban migration: People moves in cities in order to a find a job and

have a better salary. We need to consider ALL the comfort provided by a

city. This migration participates to the growth of a city.


5-Comparison for the types of cities

5.a Ancient City

Ancient city is mostly about history and religion. Almost every city of

ancient time had an important site, a place of high importance that

represents the area. It can be a monument, a statue, or even a garden of

rare trees and plants. People of every standard lived at that time, the

richest, the aristocrats were dwelling in the most important part of the city

where most activities were taking place and as we go down the ladder the

people lived away from these sites. Most of the people worked as

merchants, traders, sailors and so on. One of the common activities of

ancient people was hunting. This is what we called feudalism.


5.b Present City and Future City

More than half of the world’s population now resides in urban regions.

Almost everything is mechanized and is done to meet the needs of

citizens. Creaking, outdated infrastructure, cars clogging up the roads,

and buildings that are literally leaking energy not exactly illustrating the

picture of urban health. In addition to this, lack of public transport, a

shortage of green spaces, landfill sites. The state is even worse in

developing countries, with the poorest countries least equipped to invest

in the basic urban infrastructure such as water, sanitation, housing that is

needed to adjust with the fast growing urban populations. Unfortunately

there is no easy way for transforming a polluted, overfilled 20th century

city into a clean, free flowing, low-carbon emission in urban areas. Most

of the world’s commanding cities have progressed over many decades,

such as London, New York, Paris and many more. Almost none of them

have been purposely organized. But planning, together with

modernization, investment and teamwork is exactly what is required

nowadays.

Innovators such as San Francisco, Stockholm and Copenhagen started mapping the profile of greenhouse gas emissions and measuring vulnerability to climate change in the 1990s. Many others are now following suit. But to truly understand sustainability a city needs to measure the wider impact of consumption: from food, to water, to transport and beyond. The resulting ‘ecological footprint’ calculates how many planets it would take to sustain a place (or person) if everyone adopted the same consumption patterns. The answer in a sustainable city is one! The challenge of course, is to achieve this while at the same time improving quality of life.


In the developed world, energy used to heat and cool buildings and

operate devices used within them is the single biggest reason for carbon

emission in cities. With 50-70% of current buildings likely to still be in

use in 2050, diminishing energy demand. Lighting only accounts for up

to 10% of a city’s energy requirement. Technological advancements such

as the LED lighting will allow immense drops in energy usage.

Decreasing demand for energy will require substantial mass behaviour

alteration. Innovation like smart meters can make consumers much more

aware of the amount of energy they are consuming and how much that

energy is costing. New transport technologies provide the prospect of

low-carbon travel, which, merged with a change away from cars to public

transport, walking and cycling bring not only more eco friendly cities, but

also better public spaces and enhanced public health.

Shifting away from dependence on a centralized grid and installing

decentralized heat and power networks that use combined cooling, heat

and power (CCHP) technology goes a long way reducing dissipation of

energy. ‘Smart grids’ offer another choice, letting energy providers to

supply all day long , for example by automatically decreasing the

temperature on washing machines during greatest demand.

Densely populated urban areas are less likely to be the perfect place for

large-scale renewable energy production. However, there are often great

opportunities for solar thermal and photovoltaic and many cities have

established solar energy programs during the past few years.


If it is easy to create a dream-team of interventions to reduce a city’s

ecological footprint, it is much harder to draw them together into a

comprehensive, integrated plan that also meets societal and economic

Goals of delivering a better place to work and live. As the challenge of

sustainable development demands fundamental change to cities’

infrastructure, there will be many instances where the cross-benefits of

emissions reduction policies are not immediately obvious, or where real

conflicts emerge with other policy aims. Sustainable development policy-

making has, therefore, to be conducted at the most holistic level possible.

In governmental terms, this means that responsibility has to sit across all

departments and report directly to the city administrator or Mayor.

The scale of transformation required to fashion revamped cities capable

of providing high quality living without destroying the planet for future

generations, in an incredibly short timescale of just a few decades, is

beyond anything humanity has had to cope with previously. Yet low-

carbon cities are feasible, if we can marry science, political will and

technological innovation.

Let’s now take a look at some of the innovations that will shape our cities

in the future.


6-Shape of the city

The idea of the shape of the city is taken from Palmanova city, which has

a shape of a star.

To design the city I chose different type of design of stars and mixed them together to find the final shape of the city. The city is divided into 2: the square zone and the star zone



6.a How I became with the square zone: Transformation of the end

point of the star into a circular shape.

The Square Zone

The Star Zone

Sketch of Palmanova city Sketch of: “Sky-City”

6.b How I concluded with the star zone: Eliminate the end points of

the start and make it like a square.

A bridge joins the square zone and the star zone.



7-The interior Design

The interior design of my city is totally different from other cities, because people prefer objects or things that are eye catching and of good quality. For example a mother love new utensils, of good quality, beautiful and cheap. As for as my city, as a Mayor I need to provide something new, of good quality, beautiful and affordable to my population. People always looks for the new, and after that, they look at the quality, then the beauty of the overall and at the end if it’s cheap are not.



8-ZoningIn the core of the city there will be the park and it will be surrounded, in

the vicinity, by many offices.

Many more basic services are found around the office's perimeter such as

education, security, health, justice, lodging and transport. Utilities

services such as Tenaga National Berhad, Syabas, Indah Water and TM

are located nearby the offices.

The residential areas are situated at the edge of the city.

Furthermore, in the center of residential areas there is a mini park for the

people living there and a local store.

My city is tailored for the Malays as mentioned in the city’s requirement, and according to a survey I carried out with my Malay friends and with other people. I questioned them what is needed in a city and what is the most important for them. With these information, I have put all the important things easily accessible to the population.

Education 57Shopping mall 77Security 35Health 66Hotel 20Government 11Utilities 32

Court 5Mosque 98Temple 10Church 13Cemetery 1Garbage 1Recycle 3Residence 56Airport 7Restaurant 82Entertainment 85


Taking into consideration of this survey and according to the logic of

what people need the most, as a mayor I organized my city in this way:


9-Focus point of the city

The main attractive part of the city is the nature park, which has a

geometrical shape of a star. People admire stars at night when they shine;

similarly the nature park is a kind of star, which is admired by everyone.

The nature park is well known for its variety of endemic and medicinal

plants. Moreover due to its large size, it has been able to accommodate a

recreational center as well as a large field where yoga and martial arts

classes are offered.

As my city is an eco-friendly one, the population will see the nature part

of the city. Due to this busy world, people have become workaholics and

to unplug from this routine they need to spend some leisure time. The city

park will be the most preferred spot.


10-Activities:

-Restaurants

-Bars

-Library

-Spa

-Cinema

-Sports

-Nightclub

-Shopping

-Museum

-Theme park

-Tourism/ attractions

11-Place of worship

-Several Mosque around the city but contain a Big Mosque

-One Big Church -One big Temple.


12-Transportation

12.a) Streets

It’s the biggest Mosque of the city, which has a historical architecture. The mosque is use to pray but also for religious functions such as Eid. The Mosque can contain thousand of people at the same time.

There are 3 categories of road networking namely the roads connecting

the offices to zones of facilities to allow people to move along.

To prevent being stuck in a traffic jam, people working on the facilities

zone make use of highway and those working at the offices will take the

2nd highway. There will be connective roads that link the first highway

and second highway. A bridge connects the square zone to the residential

area.


12.b) Vehicles:

Being an eco city, most vehicles are powered by solar energy. The road

will contain a straddling bus that will move all around the street. Where

cars can pass inside, to avoid causing traffic jam.

13-Energy

13.a) solar energy

As it is an eco city, everything is almost powered by solar energy and

hydraulic for buildings, cars, residences… that is beneficial to the citizens

as it is economic and non-pollutant source. Therefore this will reduce the

cost of leaving and contribute to the well being of the citizens.


14-Utilities and amenities:

Solar energy car

Straddling Bus. Very practical in order to avoid traffic jam. And contain evacuation for emergency case.

Like other cities. Sky-city contains utilities such as fire safety (Bomba)

electricity (Tenaga national berhad in case of emergency because in

general the city only use Solar energy). To provide water there’s Water

Companies such as Syabas, for Internet TM. And so on.

15-How do they get and sustain their resources?

Most of the vacant space of land near the residential areas are use

to cultivate crops, used as a source of food for the population.

Furthermore, a part of the land will be for a farm to rear animals.


16-Conclusion:

In a nutshell, my city being a floating one is able to provide everything

that a population needs.

By considering technology advancements, in 2050 the population is not

affected by financial problems, illnesses. The aim is that to make the

population live in a more advanced world, and keeping the city evolving

where the scarcity of basic need is unnoticeable.

Despite, being a flying city, it will stay connected and stay in permanent

contact with the rest of the world. Ultimately, it is an almost perfect city

of the future for Malay population.


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