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China's New 'Forest City' Will Make You Rethink Urban Cities<br>
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Smart Forest City, Liuzhou China's New 'Forest City' Will Make You Rethink Urban Cities
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • Liuzhou Forest City, a new green city planned to be built near Liuzhou, a mountain area in Guangxi, China, will be the first such green project in China as well as the rest of the world. • The project, which will house more than 30,000 inhabitants, is being undertaken by Liuzhou Municipality Urban Planning. • The master plan was designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti in association with Tongyan Architectural and Planning Design.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The green city will be entirely self-sustaining and will help to reduce pollution. Construction of the city is set to begin in 2020, after undertaking careful planning and research into the various aspects of the city.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • Development of Liuzhou Forest City follows the successful implementation of similar projects by Stefano Boeri, including Bosco Verticale in Milan, Italy, and the under-construction Nanjing Vertical Forest in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. • The project is expected to serve as an example to future investors and developers to build similar forest cities in the country.
Liuzhou Forest City project purpose • Rapid industrialisation has led China to become the world’s biggest greenhouse gases emitter. The country’s reliance on coal-fired plants has further worsened the emissions. • Industrialisation has led to the rapid deterioration of China’s air quality, despite helping millions of citizens escape poverty. Large parts of the country are plagued with problems of smog, which has caused health problems and deaths. • Overpopulation is another concern in the country, creating the constant need for living spaces.
Rapid industrialisation has led China to become the world’s biggest greenhouse gases emitter
Liuzhou Forest City project purpose • Liuzhou Forest City is a result of China’s plans to create attractive residential areas outside its main cities and to move more than two million people to rural areas in order to curb migration and poverty, while increasing modernisation. • The project complies with new regulations aimed at developing eco-friendly and sustainable buildings. • It will help to reduce pollution, while creating appealing urban spaces.
Masterplan details of the new green city • The Liuzhou Forest City master plan envisages the development of a 138.5ha area located along the Liujiang river. • It will include houses, hotels, villas, offices, hospitals, schools, commercial and retail spaces, and recreational areas. • The buildings will be aligned along the river, serving as an urban bridge to the new Liuzhou city under construction across the river.
Masterplan details of the new green city • All the buildings will be covered by plants and trees of various shapes and sizes. • The city is expected to host 40,000 trees and more than one million plants of approximately 100 species. • The trees and plants will be located in parks, gardens and streets, as well as the facades of the buildings.
All the buildings will be covered by plants and trees of various shapes and sizes
Masterplan details of the new green city • The greenery will absorb approximately 10,000t of carbon dioxide and 57t of pollutants such as soot and fine dust, while producing approximately 900t of oxygen a year. • It will also help in reducing the average air temperature, provide noise barriers, and improve biodiversity by creating a habitat for birds, insects and small animals.
The greenery will absorb approximately 10,000t of carbon dioxide and 57t of pollutants
Sustainable features of Liuzhou Forest City • In addition to the large green cover, the Forest City will be energy self-sufficient. • Solar panels will be installed on the roofs of the building in order to produce renewable energy and electricity for air-conditioning will be sourced from geothermal energy. • The new city will use only electric vehicles for transportation and will be connected to the main city through a high-speed electric line.
Solar panels will be installed on the roofs of the building in order to produce renewable energy and electricity for air-conditioning
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • Liuzhou Forest City is the first Forest City in the world: an urban body in which offices, houses, hotels, hospitals and schools are almost entirely covered by plants and trees of a wide range of varieties and sizes. • Spread over an area of around 175 hectares along the Liujiang River, the master-plan commissioned by Liuzhou Municipality Urban Planning is currently being implemented.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The project extends the successful experimentation already underway for the first time in Milan with the Vertical Forest building-prototype, proposing and developing a model of architecture and habitat capable of interpreting the theme of biodiversity on an urban scale and redefining the relationship between humans and other living species.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • In addition to hosting about 30,000 inhabitants, the new city will provide a comfortable living environment for plants and trees on all buildings: in all, the Liuzhou Forest City will host about 40,000 trees and 1 million plants from more than 100 different species.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The new urban organism designed and developed for the Chinese city of Liuzhou by Stefano Boeri Architetti will work like a large sustainable machine in that it will be able to absorb about 10,000 tons of CO2 and 57 tons of micro-particles every year, producing about 900 tons of oxygen at the same time thereby combating the serious problem of air pollution.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The distribution of plants not just along the avenues in parks and gardens but also on the facades of buildings means that a city already designed to be self-sufficient in terms of energy will also be able to improve air quality, reduce the average temperature of the urban heat island, generate a barrier against acoustic pollution and increase the biodiversity of living species through the generation of a rich ecosystem of living spaces for birds, insects and small animals that already inhabit the territory surrounding Liuzhou.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • In addition, in terms of an inhabited settlement, the new Liuzhou Forest City has been conceived and developed as a real “porous model”: an urban organism that is sensitive and attentive to the specific qualities and values of the environment. • This design approach develops naturally starting from the planimetric layout, designed to integrate harmoniously with the geography of the surrounding mountains, follow their morphology and incorporate the particular qualities of the local landscape.
Liuzhou Forest City has been conceived and developed as a real “porous model”
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • This approach also corresponds to a careful study of the technological, infrastructural and distribution characteristics of the large urban complex.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • When China decides to do something, the country can be incredibly agile and quick in implementation. • One example is the construction of a "Forest City" that pushes the boundaries of sustainable urban planning and development, a concept the EPA should certainly take a look at.
When China decides to do something, the country can be incredibly agile and quick in implementation
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The Chinese government has broken ground on this Forest City with the ambitious plan to have it fully completed by 2020, an urban development that will be covered in plants and solar panels. • The city will sit along the Liujiang River in the mountainous region of Guangxi in southern China.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The design is the brainchild of Stefano Boeri Architetti (SBA), an Italian architectural agency known for environmentally focused urban designs. • A key premise for this Forest City will be to fight air pollution that has engulfed many of China's metropolitan areas and remains a critical health threat to the Chinese people.
Stefano Boeri Architetti (SBA), an Italian architectural agency known for environmentally focused urban designs
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The city will include typical buildings such as schools, offices, hotels, hospitals, and homes of course. • Albeit, these will all be covered in thousands of trees and plants of various species.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • Below are some key statistics about the city, including its ability to scrub the air of CO2 and pollutants and release oxygen. • As the city ages and trees become older they will only absorb more CO2 and become more effective.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • A single adult tree can absorb 48 pounds of CO2 and about 260 pounds of oxygen per year. This is because trees, opposite to humans, take in CO2 and release oxygen during photosynthesis.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • 10,000 tons of CO2 absorption per year • 57 tons of pollutant absorption per year • 900 tons of oxygen produced per year • 30,000 inhabitants • 40,000 tress within the city • 1 million plants and over 100 species within the city
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The abundance of plants will improve many aspects of the city such as air quality and pollution. • A few key side benefits include a lower average air temperature, improved biodiversity of plants and animals in the area, noise barriers, and an ecosystem for birds and insects.
Smart Forest City, Liuzhou • The Forest City will also boast geothermal energy for air conditioning of the buildings and solar panels on roofs to supplement. • To get around the residents will be able to use an electric rail line that goes through the center of the city in addition to electric cars.
