A few days ago I have submitted my entry to the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient City. The project proposes a complete makeover of Toronto's highway network into a RING of multi-functional infrastructure that generates energy, manages water and transports citizens. Targeting the urban needs of a post-carbon era in 2059, and manipulating the highways and city grid of 2009, the RING promotes a clean solution that connects and benefits all districts in the city, and creates an interdependent relationship among them. The proposal introduces two novel ideas on clean energy and water management: the sewage turbines and bio-filter water treatment. The project corresponds to some main characteristics of a 21st century city, which include self-sufficiency, environmental responsibility, urban connectivity and multi-functionality.
Some key concepts of the proposal:
1) Reinforce the periphery of the city to denounce urban sprawl.
2) Connect and benefit all districts of the city. Entire city becomes a coherent system, i.e., a flush of toilet in North York can help to generate electricity for a home in Scarborough and provide clean water for a garden in downtown Toronto.
3) Create a balanced relationship between city and the environment by introducing bio-filtration to treat urban grey water.
4) Introduce a multi-purposed infrastructure.
5) Reuse existing urban elements: the highway system and the grid planning.
6) Develop sustainable utility management, especially on waste to energy.
7) Create a system that accommodate urban growth and evolution.
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