5 Case Study of Central Park


Case Study of Central Park

Central Park located in an old factory site in Sydney urban. It includes one 16 floors tower and one 33 floors tower, both of them have 6 floors business function area. The project is a 5 stars Green Star building, which cost 60 million AU dollar. There are three aspects of this case study that will be introduced, green surface design, water recycle system and smart-metering system.

According to the reference from the Central Park official website, this project’s surface green walls were designed by Jean Nouvel and Patrick Blanc. The vertical garden is the most unique feature of Central Park. The whole building looked like surrounding by plants, in addition, these plants can alleviate the light pollution and reduce the radiation from outside in summer to decrease the temperature of indoor environment. Another unique passive design of surface is about the eastern tower’s sunlight reflection facility. In the daytime, this facility can absorb the sunlight and reflect it to the patio and green area between two towers. In the evening, the architectural light designed by Yann Kersale will provide a fantastic view with the plants on the walls.

Water recycle system is the most important green building technologies in this project. Central Park owned the largest Membrane Bioreactor (MBR), recycled water system in the world. Due to this facility, the residents from the Central Park could reduce approximately 50-60 percent drinking water. Moreover, MBR provides recycled water for 50-70 percent of other water use works. According to the official database, Central Park has totally seven water supply sources including rainwater from roofs; storm water from impermeable surfaces/planter box drainage; groundwater form basement drainage systems; sewage from all buildings within the Central Park community; irrigation water from all green walls; drinking water from the public water main.

Smart city is a current topic in the sustainable development area. As for the building, one of the key parts of smart city, the smart management system can be the first focused part of building. Central Park owned the smart-metering system and In Home Display (IHD) system which has been installed in every apartments in Central Park. This system not only can monitor the energy and water consumption and also can monitoring the greenhouse gas emission. The Central Park official database indicates that six following features are available of IHD, which includes visual display of the real time consumption, collection of hourly consumption data; analysis functions for displaying data at daily, weekly and monthly basis; function for displaying the financial costs and the greenhouse gas emissions associate with the usage; conversion factors for site-specific conditions.

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