Future town- Pearl Town

ENBE | Final Project | Part A – Report | Better Town Of The Future

Lee Shze Hwa| 0320053| Ms. Ida| FNBE AUG 2014 | Taylor’s University

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Better Town Of The Future

Lee Shze Hwa| 0320053

FNBE AUG 2014 |

PEARL

TOWN



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Content:

Introduction 3

The Town 4 - 5

Investigation of ancient town 6 - 8

Investigation of present town 9 - 13

Investigation of future town 14 - 15

The Pearl Town 16 - 22

Conclusion

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References List 24 - 25



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1. Introduction

This is the final ENBE project of August intake 2014, titled “Better Town of The

Future”. In this project, we are given a task to create a better town because the people in “X”

town is no longer liveable.

By doing this project, we have to investigate and understand well the content

related to a town and the build environment, therefore, we can propose a better future town.

Others than that, we have to do a lot of research on the ancient, current and future towns to

help us to understand the components and element of a town.

After we done a plenty of research, we need to investigate and collect the data

from our research to plan the landscape, geometry, structure of our future town to ensure that

the future town is sustainable and liveable. Our environment is continuously polluted by

human activities, so we have to learn to design a building or town which can reduce the

pollution.



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2.The Town

2.1 Definition of Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. It contains many

houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, commercial area and many others

facilities.

2.2 Deffienrent between Town and City

When compare a town and a city, a city is a relatively permanent and highly organized center

of population, it also greater in size and more important than town and village. A city also

called as the highest forms of social organization because of the complexity of road systems,

transportation, building laws, markets, food distribution, educational systems, sanitation,

utilities and housing. City is important to a country because it is the most developed area and

usually is a command points which economic decisions are made.

2.3 Brief of History

A town is not just an overgrown village. It has its own economy. In Medieval towns tended to

grow around areas where people easy to meet each other such as crossroads or rivers.

Compare to a village, a town needed more water resources for daily use. Many towns had

large fences built around and the gates of these fences were locked at night for safety reason.

A town would not have enough wealth to build wall around them like a city. A town may

owned by a lord and it is he/she responsible to make sure the town was popular with

merchants as they paid tax. Other than that, a town also has its own law to solve legal

problem. Lastly, a town also does not have a complete sewage system.

2.4 What Makes A Town?

A town consist of manufacturing industry, commercial area, residential area, education area,

religion and culture and services area. A town also has their own economic and cultural

characteristics but lacking other characteristics of urban localities.



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2.5 What Makes A Good Town?

A good town should include:

1. A good cleanliness around the town.

2. Abundant nature. ( Plant trees and flower around the town)

3. Good connection and accessibility. (Transportation)

4. Proper planning of infrastructure.

5. Good education system.

6. Have green area.

7. Advance technology of health and medical.

8. Stable economy.

9. Innovation and business vitality.

10. Have sufficient job opportunities for younger generations.

2.6 What Is The Future Towns?

Nowadays, there are many pollution occur around us such as air pollution, soil

pollution, water pollution and sound pollution. In Beijing, China, the government

even give advice to the citizens to ware mask rapidly when going out because the

condition of air there reached dangerous level. These pollution will cause several

effect to our environment such as the increase of water level and the increase of

temperature. Besides, people also suffer from the natural disaster. For example,

tsunami, volcano eruption and tornado. Therefore, in future, the design of the building

will be a disaster resistant building. Moreover, the future town will aim to reduce or

eliminate the use of fossil-fuel instead of hydrogen and electrical. The future town

also will have a lot of green space to create a more comfort and environmentally

living space to the citizens and will be more concern on the activities to reduce the

pollution and protect our environment.



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3. Investigation & Data Collection:

Ancient Cities / Towns

Akrotiri, Santorini

3.1 History

In 1967, at the site called Akrotiri under the

late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made

Thera the best-known Minoan site outside of

Crete. At that time, the southern tip of a large

town has been uncovered. The site was not

complex but it’s the masonry and fine wall-

paintings show that was certainly no

conglomeration of merchants’ warehousing

either. An outpost of Crete was settled by

Minoans as early as 3000 BC and reached its

peak after 2000 BC, this is the period of the

developed trade and agriculture and settled

the present town. The inhabitants cultivated

olive trees and grain and developed

sophisticated forms of art and architecture.



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Santorini’s volcanic explosion in 1450 BC had destroyed the flourishing Minoan world on

Crete. At Akrotiri, pots and tools are still where their owners left them abandoning the town.

After the eruption in 1450 BC, Santorini was uninhabited for about two centuries. The ruins

of Akrotiri remained buried until 1860, when workers extracting volcanic ash for use in the

Suez Canal. Systematic excavations began from 1967 and continued until 2005.

3.2 What ancient town that I am concentrating on?

Akrotiri is also known as

the “Minoan Pompeii” and

it is also the most important

archaeological sites on the

Greek island of Santorini.

Until now, it still

undergoing major

excavations sheltered

beneath a large shed.

3.3 Significant and details of the town?

Akrotiri has impressive building which include three-story houses faced with masonry and

vivid frescoes which very well preserved in the ash. Its streets, squares and walls were also

preserved, the wall reached eight metres height and indicating the major town.

Besides,the significant of this ancient town is the water system. The town had a complete

drainage system and umpiring from the artwork. Pipes with running water and water closets

that found at Akrotiri are the oldest such utilities discovered. The drainage system in Akrotiri

was running in twin system, one pipe is for hot water and another pipe is for cold water. This

had proved that the Therans used both hot and cold supplies. The origin of the hot water

probably was geothermic because Akrotiri was located in the volcano area.

The location map of Akrotiri, Santorini.



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Frescoes

3.4 Conclusion

I was inspired by the design of the street and the building and put it into the layout of my

future town. It was designed and managed well so it was easy to access. I was also impressive

that the frescoes was preserved very well in the ash for so many year. The drainage system at

Akrotiri had shown that how they fully use the geometric of their site.

3.5 What information or element that I use to my new

future town?

The accessibility and the connectivity of the ancient town.



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Present Towns / township

Taipei, Taiwan

4.1 History

In the early 18th century, Chinese from Fujian immigrants to Taipei.

In the 19th century, Taipei became an important centre for overseas trade.

In the year 1875, Taipei was made an administrative unit of the Chinese

government.

In the year 1886, Taipei was announced a province of China.

In the year 1895, Japanese attained Taiwan as part of the peace agreement

capital.

In the year 1945, Japan lost in the World War II.

In the year 1949, Taipei became the seat of the Chinese Nationalist

government.



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In the year 1949, Taipei expanded.

In the year 1967, the city gives the administrative status of the province.

In the year 1990, Taipei is the world’s most populated urban areas and

population became more worth.

4.2 What present town that I am concentrating on?

Taipei situated the northern tip of Taiwan. Taipei is located on the Tamsui River

which is about 25 km southwest of Keelung (port city of the Pacific Ocean).



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4.3 Significant and details of the town?

Taipei is the most populous city in Taiwan. Taipei 101 is the

world’s tallest building from the year 2004-2010. Taipei 101 is the

largest engineering project ever in the Taiwan construction

industry, it is designed by the world-class architect C.Y Lee. The

design concept was came from the Chinese number 8 which

means lucky in Chinese culture. Eight-floor structural units are

linked one by one on top of each other to form the whole. This is a

new rhythmic aesthetic of skyscraper. Besides, the sectional of the

building used Mega Structure System for disaster and protection

from wind damage. The design of the foundation guarantees

pedestrian safety and comfort. The structure of the building will

increase in size as getting higher. The transparent and non-

reflecting curtain walls enable for people to watch a clear view

from the building because the curtain walls energy efficient and

heat reflective.

Taiwan has a good transportation system. There have several public transport portions in

Taiwan. Based on the research, Taipei residents having the highest utilization rate at 34.1%.

The Taipei Metro is the first Taiwan metro system, it known as MRT formally as the Taipei

Rapid Transit System. The system consists of 103 stations and 11 lines, operating 121.4

kilometres of revenue track. This system proved effective for urban renewal, it increases the



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tourist to outlying towns such as Tamsui. Moreover, the contactless smartcard, also known as

EasyCard, can be used for all modes of public transit as well as several retail outlets. This

will bring a lot of convenience to the passengers.

MRT Route Map.



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4.4 Conclusion

Although, Taipei is the world’s most polluted town in the pass but they are trying to reduce

and solve the pollution problem by having a good transportation system so that the residents

can easily access to another place through the public transport. If the residents are adapting to

use public transportation, this will be help a lot to reduce the air pollution in Taipei.

4.5 What information or element that I use to my new

future town?

The transportation system in Taipei gives me inspiration to plan my future town. A good

transportation system not only will give convenience to the citizens, it also environmental

friendly and reduce the air pollution.



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The future of towns and Better Towns

Skolkovo, Russia

Skolkovo innovation centre is a

planned high technology

business area to be built at

Skolkovo near Moascow, Russia.

The site is encouraged to be an

ultramodern complex created to

encourage scientifically-

technological based companies. It

located in the east part of

Odintsovsky area of Moascow,

2km to west from MKAD on

Skolkovsky highway.



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Furthermore, Skolkovo is a sustainable development. It is an energy efficient city with zero

emissions of environmentally harmful substances that make sure the total recycling of

household and municipal waste. Most of the energy consumed by the city will come from

renewable sources.

Besides, the well-developed water system uses significantly less water without compromising

comfort or hygiene. Moreover, the transport system of Skolkovo will be walking and cycling.

While the use of vehicles with internal combustion engines is also the transport that use in the

city. Other than that, household and municipal waste will be disposed of in the most

environmentally friendly way possible.



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6.The New “X” City / The New Name?

Pearl Town

Aim of Town

The aim of my future town is to create an environmental friendly, comfort and safety,

sustainable and liveable town. There will be zero emission of environmentally harmful

substances. The source of energy mainly came from the Solar Power Field and the Wave

Energy Generator.

Basic Information

Area : approximate 50km

Population : 190.000

Religion: Malay, Chinese, India, Bumiputera.

The plan of Pearl Town



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6.1 How did I came up with the solution to create this new

town?

Nowadays, the pollution of our environment was getting worse. The increase of temperature

had cause the water level getting higher. Therefore, in future, our land will become lesser. To

solve this problem, I recommend my residents to move to a new town called “ Pearl Town”

which is floating on the sea.

Important Consideration When Planning the Town

To create and plan a town is not an easy task. There are many of things that we have to be

aware of and consider a lot of aspect to create a well-planned town.

1. The accessibility and the connectivity of the town.

2. Environmental responsibility.

3. Efficient transport system.

4. Suitable population density.

5. Strong economy.



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6.2 What is the important characteristic and

elements in the town ?

Good transportation system

A well-planned transportation system in a town is very important to achieve a successful

town. The underground train transportation system in my future town was planned to connect

the north, south, east and west point to the centre point of my town. It is also able to access to

the airport and port and shipping area so that it gave convenience to the citizens and for the

import and export industry.

The future underground train station.



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The accessibility and the connectivity of the town

The walkability and circulation was considered in my town planning. I had design the

walkway, cycling path and driveway to ensure citizens in my town can access to anywhere

easily.

Sustainable/Green Approaches

Collect the waste to produce biomass energy.

Practice 3R and use the recycle product.

Use hydrogen car or compressed air car to reduce the emission of CO2.

Encourage citizens to use the main transport (MRT) which is planned well in

the town.

Green wall.

Green spaces around the town.

Green Wall

The walkway, cycling path and drive way of the town.



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Uses of renewable energy

The main energy sources of my town are from Solar Power Filed and Wave Energy

Generator. Solar Panel will absorb the heat energy during the day time and convert the heat

energy to electrical energy. The converted electrical energy is then ready to supply to others

area of the town. The Wave Energy Generator is also using the same concept as the Solar

Panel, the different is Wave Energy Generator convert from the wave energy to electrical

energy.



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6.3 Zoning



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6.4 Transportation System

6.5 Conclusion about the new town

Pearl Town is an environmental friendly design and well-planned to make sure the circulation

is smooth. The management and the development of the town is important to reduce the

pollution and design a comfort and safety town to the citizens.

The main transport in Pearl Town is the underground MRT. The yellow line show the route of

MTR and the red circles represent the MRT station. The red double circle at the centre of the town

is the main MRT station which can access to the east, south, north and west part of the town.

The blue colour line at the residential areas had provided a walkway and cycling path only for citizens. There

is no drive way because the residential areas are not suitable to drive so fast. In Future, vehicles will be

replaced by hydrogen car and compressed air car which can drive in a very high speed.



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7.Conclusion

Through this ENBE final project, I had learned how to design and manage a

good town. By using the green technologies to the town, it helps a lot to reduce the pollution

to our environment and create an environmental friendly space to the citizens. For example, I

had design the green wall to the main building like the government building at my future

town.

This project is a good experience for me to try and design a town. Design a

town is tough because it include a lot of consideration and we need to be aware of what will

influence to the citizens, the town itself and the environment before we decide to put the

design inside. We should know what the positive and negative effect is after we constructed

the design, and then only make a final decision of the design. I’m glad that I know how to

design a better town.



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8.Reference Links

Definition Of Town

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

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/town

Different Between Town And City

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/habitat/units/un01txt.asp

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

Brief of history

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_towns.htm

What Make A Town?

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

What Makes A Good Town?

http://www.townplanning.gov.fj/index.php/developing/planning-to-develop/planning-

requirements

What is future town?

http://media.wix.com/ugd/3919c1_d46630a7f7c748d7bfd130768ea238c4.pdf

http://www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk/#!future-towns/c19bv

Ancient Town

History

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/greece/santorini-akrotiri

Concentrating

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

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/town

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/habitat/units/un01txt.asp

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

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_towns.htm

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

http://www.townplanning.gov.fj/index.php/developing/planning-to-develop/planning-requirements

http://www.townplanning.gov.fj/index.php/developing/planning-to-develop/planning-requirements

http://media.wix.com/ugd/3919c1_d46630a7f7c748d7bfd130768ea238c4.pdf

http://www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk/#!future-towns/c19bv




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http://gohistoric.com/places/319608


Significant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini#History


Present Town

History

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580809/Taipei

Concentrating

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

Significant

http://eng.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0002090&id=3469

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei#Transportation

Future Town

http://rbth.com/skolkovo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolkovo_innovation_center#Innovation_City

The New “X” City

http://my.total.com/en-us/making-energy-better/making-energy-better

http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/wave.htm

http://gohistoric.com/places/319608


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini#History


http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580809/Taipei

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

http://eng.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0002090&id=3469

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei#Transportation

http://rbth.com/skolkovo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolkovo_innovation_center#Innovation_City

http://my.total.com/en-us/making-energy-better/making-energy-better

http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/wave.htm

Education

Future town- Pearl Town