NTC sustainable research journal

High Line Park as a refurbishment green infrastructure, which proposes a concept of rotating time so that high-line tourists and residents enjoy nearby temporary artworks. High lines are fresh and novel, focusing on unique high-line forms, structures and concepts. The core goal is to provide opportunities to promote artists to showcase their work in a public place. Moreover, they can achieve further boost in the excitement of the general audience; and strengthen New York City, especially near the high line, to become an important cultural centre.   Set up a new walking system, connected by linear cement and wooden planks. The special conical boundary line seems to be allowing the free flow of water; and the organic green plants are mixed with hard materials to create a sloppy area, which immersed in the structure. Slowing down the landscape and enhancing its continuity will make people feel like they are in a less stressful space. In addition, long stairs, meandering trails, and ...

High Line Park is a linear hanging garden on the west side of Midtown Manhattan, New York. It was originally a railway freight transport line connecting the meat processing area and the 34th Street Hudson Port built in 1930. It later retired in 1980 and was once faced with the danger of traffic accidents. However, under the strong protection of the FHL organization in New York, the high line has finally survived and became a unique sky garden corridor, which has won great social and economic benefits for New York City and has become a model for international design and reconstruction of old objects. The history of this railway lane is tortuous as well. In 1847, the City of New York authorized the construction of a street railroad project on the west side of Manhattan. Between 1851-1929, there were frequent accidents with freight trains and pedestrian vehicles on the streets so that Tenth Avenue became a well-known death path. Decades after the railroad was abandoned, there is l...

It is acknowledged that smog already has had a detrimental impact on China’s cities. A few years ago, there was a kind of special truck widely used in many cities to control smog called Fog Cannon Truck. The Fog Cannon Truck's spray system has a certain control effect on dust, reducing the content of large particles in the air, and has limited effect on tiny particles. The fog particles sprayed by the fog cannon are extremely small, reaching the micron level. In the fog and haze weather, the liquid fog can be used to reduce dust, decompose and dilute the concentration of particles in the air, and can effectively decompose the airborne particulate matter, dust, etc., and effectively alleviate the haze. According to reports, the purchase of the Fog Cannon Truck costs more than 800000 yuan， which is low cost performance. The particulate matter floating in the air is quickly forced down to the ground to achieve the effect of clean air purification. Fog Cannon Truck needs wate...

The green building technologies used in Wanke Centre include many aspects. First and foremost, in the interior of the building, water saving tools and methods are used to save water, such as low-flow toilets, waterless urinals, low-flow faucets with automatic control systems, and low-flow shower heads. Water-saving is at least 30% or more. A comprehensive rainwater recovery system was installed to collect the rainwater, accumulate it in the waterscape pool, and return it for greening and replenishing the loss of water from the landscaped pool. As an office building, the design uses a large area of glass to get ample sunlight. However, in order to avoid excessive heat gain from the sun due to this design, and glare in winter, the design uses commonly used low-emissivity and high-transmittance glass, together with innovative, self-adjusting external shading system, which automatically adjusts the horizontal sun visor according to the solar elevation angle and indoor illumination....

Wanke Centre was designed by famous American architecture Steven Holl . This building is located in the Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, and it is located above a tropical garden and stretches horizontally as long as the Empire State Building lays flat. The building looks as if it once floated on the high sea, and now the seawater recedes. More than that, in the interior of the building, a public passage has been specially designed to connect the office headquarters with hotels and apartments. The project is located in a tropical climate zone. Buildings and landscapes incorporate a number of sustainable development strategies, including a microclimate system for cold water ponds (recovery water savings). The green roof of a solar panel is combined with the entire design and uses local materials such as bamboo. Additional the external glazed facades resist sunlight and wind through perforated plates. The building's shape resists the tsunami and creates a public open landscape...

A power generation floor is a device that provides electricity. The principle is to use passengers to step on the floor to generate electricity. A kind of power generation floors developed by Japanese researchers was set up on the sidewalk of the busy Shibuya Train Station in Tokyo. A total of four panels were laid, each with a floor area of 45 square centimeters. When pedestrians step on it, panels can generate electricity. On average, each person walks twice to produce 0.5 watts of electricity. At the same time, there is a sign near the panel that shows how much energy is stored. Dutch scientists also developed a power generation floor, a dance-powered floor set in the Westergas Park in the city of Rotterdam. The two groups took turns dancing on the dance floor. The energy generated when people dance will be converted into electrical energy to light up the built-in diode lamps installed on the floor surface. The energy generated when two people danced on a dancing power floor was c...

The cycling lane has been constructed in Sydney for many years. Some lanes are still being constructed. The cycling lanes are funded by the Sydney City Council but will be constructed by contractors managed by RMS. The construction of bicycle lanes is part of the City Center Access Strategy of the NSW Government   The cycling line projects have a slow process and are not connected, which are not convenient for riders. In another word, this is cannot encourage sustainable transportation as well. Because of the unconnected of lanes, bicycles are easy to drive with pedestrian s or motor vehicles, which is very dangerous. Another negative situation of cycling line in Sydney is that many vehicles parking on the cycling line, especially in the residential area, which makes bike riders rider on the motorized lane. Therefore, comparing with the Bicycle path is not perfect, lanes management is more important than construction. In my opinion, make the traffic more legally is the fir...