Facing the global ecological challenges, countries worldwide are actively cutting carbon emissions to reach carbon neutrality. This means offsetting self - emitted CO2 or greenhouse gases through afforestation, energy -saving, and emissions - reduction, achieving a net - zero balance.
Project background: With the development of cities and the improvement of people's living standards, existing urban diseases in metropolises are becoming more common, such as road congestion, busy hubs, and mixed crowds. In order to alleviate the increasing demand for high-quality buildings, this project aims to design a new plug-in urban concept for future populations that can solve existing urban diseases and improve the quality of life for all types of people.
Project scale: There are four levels in total, with levels ranging from one to four, arranged from ground to air in order of increasing complexity.
Against the backdrop of population aging, Xihu District, Hangzhou, faces the urgent task of optimizing medical and elderly care resources. The elderly population is growing unevenly, with old communities being densely populated and emerging ones lacking facilities. Hospital layouts have pros and cons.
Jersey City is located in New Jersey, United States is characterized by offline consumption due to New Jersey's exemption from consumption tax. There are several good shopping malls such as Newport Shopping Center. etc
However, the increasing in labor and transportation costs and the traffic congestion have reduced the scale of offline shopping. People's demand for online shopping and the expansion of online shopping modes by offline shopping malls is on the rise, and the demand for small item transportation has also increased accordingly. Urban
development has reduced green space, and old public transportation tracks have been abandoned.
People in the sixth block are in urgent need of a new type of “community center with an unmanned transportation system and a walk-in three-dimensional ecological landscape park”.
The project aims to transform the Hangzhou Grand Canal urban area into a waterfront complex, integrating history and modern design to showcase canal culture and enhance its connotations.
It focuses on ecological sustainability, planning greenery layout with local purifying plants for embankment stability, water purification, and ecological corridor reshaping to ensure the canal ecosystem's cycle and stability. Also, it emphasizes optimizing public
experience, creating diverse water and land routes and adding facilities like waterfront platforms and cultural stations to meet citizens' needs for strolling, cycling, and boating,allowing the public to engage with the canal's heritage.