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A Green Future Forecasting

Eco-Friendly

Technologies

Luxury District Sustainable

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SMART Urban DISTRICTAT THE PERIPHERY OF BRUSSELS CAPITAL

BRUSSELS

WATERLOO Smart Urban District

Cities in Europe face the challenge of combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development simultaneously.

Medium-sized cities have to cope with

competition of the larger metropolises on corresponding issues, and are less well equipped in terms of critical mass, resources and organizing capacity.

SMART Urban DISTRICTCOMBINED WATERLOO - ANDERLECHT

Medium-sized cities have to cope with

competition of the larger metropolises on corresponding issues, and are less well equipped in terms of critical mass, resources and organizing capacity.

WATERLOO Smart Urban District

Smart security and monitoring network (cameras, pollution monitoring network)

Smart connections to the motor, wags, ring roads to Charleroi (continental airport) and Zaventem airport (intercontinental flights) and railway, Fast train Network

Smart clean mobility (electrical vehicles), fast changing stations network inside and peripheral sites, alternative fuels mobility infrastructure (bio gas, flex fuel, ect.)

Underground inspectable, easy monitoring and maintenance infrastructure for electricity, gas, steam, water (drink and service), sludge, msw

Smart lighting and urban district (LED), pedestrian crossing

Smart underground mobility for electric vehicles (private or public transport)

Smart configuration of multi-purpose functional urban building in clean green environment (residential, commercial, business, industrial, art, amusement, hotel, sports, gardens, etc.)

Smart water distribution infrastructure (drinking water, service water, energy cooling, retreatment cooling)

A global Smart city vision as an innovative demonstration cluster of most advanced commercial available innovations in a broad range of sectors like:

concept SMART Urban DISTRICT

Use of smart new construction material (low carbon footprint): windows, insulation

Smart integration of solar photovoltaic technology (walls, windows) of bioenergy technologies, wind energy, geothermal energy and some energy storage in a smart electrical heating grid infrastructure demonstration of most advanced clean commercial technologies available today

Use of 100% RE and storage inputs (bioelectricity and bioheat/biocooling)

Smart information, internet infrastructure

Smart green vegetation infrastructure integrated into this futuristic city as intensive global high level

Comunicare Coinvolgere Sensibilizzare

tHe AReA SMART Urban DISTRICT

Pictures of the designated area and surroundings

Site analysis and preliminary draft of a technical building of “bio-farm” including crops greenhouse, administrative offices,

garages, showrooms, meeting room, seminar rooms and renewable energy systems.

DeSIGn AppRoAcH SMART Urban DISTRICT

A Smart DistrictDesign Approach

Preliminary project of Master Plan for the development of a residential high tech garden city according to the principles of “Smart City” organized in the form of “Beguine Buildings” with common facilities for leisure and business, parks and public areas.

Preliminary project mobility system, individual parking, pathways, green and public spaces, sport and leisure facilities,

• Smart Design Approach

• Efficient Buildings

• Renewable energy supply

• Urban waste and sewage water treatment

• Smart Grid Integration for efficient energy consumption and storage

Smart Project: Review on technologies and strategies which will be analyzed and studied by the participants:

• Automation technology, sensors system for efficiency maximization

• CO2 and GHG emissions monitoring system

• District Heating/cooling infrastructure (steam from the cogeneration plant)

• Urban e-mobility; alternative fuel mobility ; network of fast charging stations

Hati - Garden City Master Plan Hescher Gunewardena Architecture

• Urban green infrastructure

• Underground supply services for control and maintenance (gas-steam-water-electricity-communication,..)

• Urban lights (LED) infrastructure,

• Logistic Assessment study for the supply of Agropellets to the Cogeneration Plant.

A unique urban space that integrates nature, urban life and pedestrian infrastructure.

The Meera HouseGuz Architects

Vinge Masterplan Proposal EFFEKT + Henning Larsen Architects

CleanTech Park JTC Corporation

“Green Loops City” in China by IADEPT

The Smart District will be designed to be a self sustainable area, where vegetables can be produced and consumed locally.

The area will host in its urban texture an industrial agricultural production of biological products that will provide the community with locally produced food. The urban agricultural

Urban AgricultureVertical Farm

production will adopt hydroponic technologies and high tech green houses.

This will allow to produce 12 months per year and at the same time will reduce the risk of parasites and the use of pesticides and chemical products.

Images below represent examples and technical shemes of double skin facade with hyroponic integration.

Urban Sustainability is among the most critically important global issues of the 21st century

Over half the world’s population live in urban areas and by 2050 that proportion will rise to 70% of all humanity.The big challenge is that cities now consume about 75% of all the world’s energy and emit around 80% of all greenhouse gases. The fight against climate change will therefore be won or lost in cities, so it’s crucial we make our urban habitats more efficient, cleaner and better to live in - not only for ourselves, but for future generations and the earth’s diverse ecosystems.

Sustainability is

a term nowadays largely used in architecture, but MSA

Associates has been pioneering this sector since over 20 years, and now

we’re proud to manage a vast knowledge, use of scientific technologies and

practical experiences that not many other competitors can praise.

This achievements have been possible thanks to the strict collaboration between our office and ABITA (Architettura

Bioecologica e Innovazione Tecnologica per l’Ambiente) the Interuniversity

Center of Florence of whom Marco Sala is the founder

and director.

MSAStudio Tecnico Associato

Sustainability is

a term nowadays largely used in architecture, but MSA

Associates has been pioneering this sector since over 20 years, and now

we’re proud to manage a vast knowledge, use of scientific technologies and

practical experiences that not many other competitors can praise.

This achievements have been possible thanks to the strict collaboration between our office and ABITA (Architettura

Bioecologica e Innovazione Tecnologica per l’Ambiente) the Interuniversity

Center of Florence of whom Marco Sala is the founder

and director.

MARCO SALA

Graduated from University of Florence in Architecture in 1972 is registered architect since 1973, principal of Marco Sala Associates, Architecture and Energy Consultants, he specializes in passive solar systems in architecture, environmental design and energy conscious building design.

Full Professor in Architectural Technology at the University of Florence.

Fonder and Director of ABITA Interuniversity Research Centre based in Florence University

Director of European Master ABITA in Sustainable Architecture, has extensive experience in European research projects, as group leader and coordinator (JOULE, ALTENER, SAVE, VII FW, EIE)

Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University and Lecturer in energy topics in post-graduate Course many Italian Universities..

Professor Marco Sala authored some 70 scientific papers/conference reports, produced about 20 books, proceedings volumes and

organized and chaired many International Conferences and Exhibitions on renewable energy and sustainable architecture such TIA-Network (Florence 1996, 98,

Oxford 2000, Krems 07, 08 WREC (Florence 1998 and 2006, Brigthon 2000).

Past vice President of Eurosolar (The European Association for Solar Energy).

Fonder member of TIA (Teaching in Architecture Energy and Environment World Network). Member of the Bioclimatic Committee of ISES Italia, WREN (World Renewable Energy Network) and Associate Member of PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture).

His role as a teacher of Architectural Technology in the University of Florence works in tandem with the office research base and practice with many realized bioclimatic buildings and consultations for public admin-istrations in Italy and international companies.

Coordinator of many international Cooperation Projects in Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia

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