Week 7 research

I watched a really amazing you-tube video, that shows off the design by the Bjarke Ingles Group called Loop City. This design incorporates so many different concepts, all being sustainable. The design proposes that a transport system connecting Copenhagen is designed to not only incorporate a rail system and access for private vehicles, but it also incorporates a series of sustainable infrastructures:

• Waste products are collected and sorted in waste centrals where vacuum systems shoot it out into the loop.
• Solar panels produce electricity locally excess power feeds into the car charging stations turning cars into driving batteries for renewable energy. 
• Better place electric car charging stations are placed along the ring forming the first steps towards a sustainable infrastructure for private mobility.
• A recycle and exercise track, equipped with information technologies connects the cities in the ring.
• A continuous green band creates a efficient biodiversity corridor throughout the city.
• Industrial buildings transformed into green houses create a local network of food production and distribution along the ring
• New buildings are built with green roofs and larger industrial buildings are turned into green houses for biological water treatment.
• Canals lead storm water and grey water into green wedges creating an engineered landscape of wetlands, lakes and forests.

Using this as inspiration, I think that introducing a design similar to this into Canberra's transport system would be very efficient. I think that because of Canberra's Planning, this system would not be difficult to implement, and it would get Canberra started on a sustainable route. 

References:


http://www.big.dk/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAYgFtJAPro