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ENBE | Final Project | Part A – Report | The Better Livable Town Representation

Better Livable Town

ZERUS Fnbe april 2014

Name : Yan wai chun

i.d : 0319626

enbe final project - town

YAN WAI CHUN | 0319626| Pn Hasmanira| FNBE APR 2014 | Taylor’s University1


1. Introduction

The idea of this project is to understand the component and elements of a town and what makes a better livable future town. We will have to pretend that we are the mayor of the “X” Town. The people in “X” town require a new town because of reasons that it is too crowded. We will need to propose a new layout for the new “X” Town very quickly.

We are required to do the followings to understand the meaning of a “town”, its development, history, components, elements and what makes a better livable town.

Investigation, collect data and understand the type of town that our group have selected. Look into documents, article, guideline and issues regarding planning a better future towns.



2. The Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world. Townships range in size from 6 to 54 square

miles (15.6 km² to 140.4 km²), with 36 square miles (93 km²) being the norm.

The word town shares an origin with the German word Zaun, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse tun. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a small city that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead.



Town also provide a variety of services to their inhabitants, including sanitation, roads, utilities, transportation and food distribution.Town have a less denser population than the city, with a population that does not grow its own food.

What makes a good town? Use the landscape to your advantage,improve the town.Use only one architectural style per town, this is imperative to the final look of your project.

Every town or area should have at least one commanding (large and more importantly beautiful) building or group of buildings (that should be on the same street), they can be a mosque, town hall or whatever suits.



The layout, shape/form of buildings, colour that define the town ,texture, and also space/perspective on how the town is built are also important.

Principles to built a town:

Pattern (style of builidings)

Rhythm/Movement (How easily the town can be navigated without a map) Proportion/Scale (Fitting the city to a proper size)

Balance (How effective the city building layout is)

Unity (How well the city seems to relate to itself)

Emphasis (Emphasize buildings to have them stand out)

3. Investigation & Data Collection:Ancient Cities / towns

GOZO



Gozo has been inhabited since 5000 BC, when farmers from nearby Sicily crossed the sea to the island.Due to the discovery of similar pottery found in both places from the Għar Dalam phase, it has been suggested that the first colonists were specifically from the area of Agrigento; however, it is currently indeterminate exactly which part of Sicily the farmers came from. They are thought to have first lived in

caves on the outskirts of what is now known as Saint Lawrence.

Gozo (off the coast of Italy)

Gozo was an important place for cultural evolution, and during the neolithic period the Ġgantija temples were built; they are the world's oldest free-standing structures, as well as the world's oldest religious structures. The temple's name is Maltese for "belonging to the giants", because legend in Maltese and Gozitan folklore says the temples were built by giants.

Ggantija Temple

For such a town on a small island, has a population of around 31,000 people and it is rich in historic locations/ oldest free-standing structures and are also among the world's oldest religious structures.

Maybe the element that I can use is the architecture of buildings in GOZO.

4. Investigation & Data Collection:



Present Towns / township

Monte Carlo

Founded in 1866, Monte Carlo has a name of Italian origin meaning "Mount Charles", in honor of the then-reigning prince, Charles III of Monaco. The specific mountain is the escarpment at the foot of the Maritime Alps on which the town stands.The quarter of Monte Carlo was served by tramways from 1900 to 1953, linking all parts of Monaco (see transportation in Monaco). In 2003 a new cruise ship pier was completed in the harbour at Monte Carlo.

Monte Carlo in Monaco (Ward shown)

With more than 300 days a year of sunshine, residents in Monaco can take advantage of the Mediterranean, and all of its seaside activities. Monte Carlo is host to most of the Circuit de Monaco, on which the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix takes place. It also hosts world championship boxing bouts, the European Poker Tour Grand Final and the World Backgammon Championship as well as fashion shows and other events.

Circuit de MonacoMonte Carlo Casino

Monte Carlo is one of Europe's leading tourist resorts, although many of the key tourist destinations are located in other parts of Monaco.

Maybe I will add more features like Monte Carlo had in my new town.e.g. sports stadium, recreation places, race track etc.



5. Investigation & Data Collection:The future of towns and Better Towns

Treasure Island

Treasure Island, an upclose view of the proposed sustainable development plan and a not so shabby panoramic view of the whole San Francisco Bay Area. We found that the entire place is steeped in future plans and the island is

a keystone in what will become a center for green living in the Bay.

We also got an eye full of the temporary Bay Bridge span, which was impressively being connected to the existing bridge over the weekend. Meanwhile, curious ones like us piled into a shuttle and explored the flat shoals of Treasure Island. Together we squinted at the view, meandered through the parking lots, and gazed into what could be the developed future of the flat manmade island– an educational urban farm, a ferry building to mirror the one in San Francisco’s Embarcadero, and a wastewater treatment plant framed by wetlands.

Housing on the island will be a varied set of townhouses, stacked flats, mid-rises, neighborhood towers, and high rises, with units for different income levels all mixed together. On the city side of the island these blocks will be connected with pedestrian “mews,” landscaped common pathways. On the east side, a linear

park will run down the center of the neighborhood leading straight to the retail center.



6. The New “X” Town / The New NAME?

ZERUS

I’ve

done research about future town and buildings. I’ve seen many future or modern architecture style of buildings in Dubai. So I came up with the ideas of using the same architecture style and the materials for the buildings in this new town.Besides,I can take some informations from the research on Monte Carlo and Gozo,such as architecture buildings and features to include in my future town’s plan.

Graphene building Graphene Future building

In this new town ,there are many ideas of adding sports and recreation facilities for public use , including adventure centres, community centres, indoor sports centres, swimming pools, resorts, sports grounds and stadiums.

Squares , gardens and farming areas will be installed in a less concentrated area.The purpose to doing so is to give the people in this new town an opportunity to walk around and not just focus on the concentrated area. Farming area is for the food production in this new town.



Farming area Future

square

In this future town you will find a more sustainable public transport system. Low cost public transport will be provided in order to reduce the negative impact towards the environment of this new town.Bus stations and train stations will increase in the concentrated area and become less in residential area.

The population in ZERUS is 120,000 Malaysian.ZERUS is a town on an man made island .Housing in this new town will be a varied set of townhouses, stacked flats, mid-rises, neighborhood towers, and high rises, with units for different income levels all mixed together. Safety of the people in ZERUS will be put in the first place. Every one who enters or exit this new town will be

check with high tech security system to ensure there is no

terrorism happens.





Elements in Future Town

In this future town (ZERUS) ,elements like schools,college,university,hospital,police station ,firestation, pedestrian path and bicycle path will be installed at suitable places.

SCHOOL , COLLEGE , UNIVERSITY

School,college and university will be installed near the residential area and keep a distance from the main town area so that students can get a better study environment.

HOSPITAL, FIRESTATION ,POLICE STATION

All these three will be installed nearby and can be found easily so that they can help the citizens immediately when there is an emergency.

PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE PATH

Pesdestrian road and bicycle path will be installed in the main town separately so that there will be zero accident.



Public Transportation and Transportation LinksPublic transportations in this town will be buses and trains. Bus stops and train stations will be installed more in concentrated area such as main town and less in residential area.

All the train paths will be on top of the ground and no underground station because it will be dangerous if there is a leakage or crack ( town on an island).

Transportation link .( red line represents the train path)



Solar energy buses will be used in this town and the bus stops will be installed near education zone ,residential zone and also in the town.

Transportation link.( pink line represents the bus path)

In this future town,travel by bicycle is highly encourage to decrease the negative impacts towards the environment.

Transpotation link.(green line represents the bicycle track)



Energy Management

Solar-wind Energy

combination of solar power and wind power to produce enormous energy called the solar wind power, which will satisfy all energy requirements of human kind.The satellite launched to tap solar wind power, instead of working like a wind mill, where a blade attached to the turbine is physically rotated to generate electricity, would use charged copper wire for capturing electrons zooming away from the sun at several hundred kilometers per second.

Flying Wind Farms

kite-like airborne turbines spinning at high altitudes sending power down via nano-tube cable tethers to generate power.

At higher altitudes, wind has more velocity and is more consistently predictable. As power generated goes up because of higher wind resistance proportional to the cube of relative velocity, more power can be generated.

Wind Energy



Wind turbines will be installed near the sea shore as the wind is greater.The kinetic energy created by the turbines will convert into electrical energy,then the electricity will be distributed to all the zones through transformers.



7. Conclusion

Before we starts to plan the new town, we must investigate and examine old cities and towns, present towns and future towns in order to help us and gives us ideas about our development of future town. Collecting data that will help us to understand more about the components and elements of a town, such as what makes a good town etc.

The evolution of technology keeps on going, throughout the research,there is a huge different between ancient architecture buildings and future architecture buildings.At this early stage, we must learn how to catch up the evolution and try to practice it in our projects.

The population in this world keeps on increasing,so we must appreciate every piece of land on this Earth and most important appreciate what nature has given us.



8. Reference Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town

http://www.ask.com/question/what-makes-a-town-a-town

http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/contest-how-to-make-a-good-citytownvillage/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gozo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/235306-hintstipsbuilding-a-city/

http://www.newcolonist.com/topten2.html

http://inhabitat.com/treasure-island-reveals-new-sustainable-development-plan/

http://guardianlv.com/2014/04/graphene-miraculous-material-that-will-build-the-future/






http://www.newcolonist.com/topten2.html

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/235306-hintstipsbuilding-a-city/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gozo



http://www.ask.com/question/what-makes-a-town-a-town

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town