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Bio-Digital City Bailly Claire J. Magerand L. Bruneau J. Jullien E.-S. Bae N. Purseramen M. Reina claire@bailly.as
France
Location: plateau de Saclay, Ile-deFrance, France; in the National Interest Operation of Versailles-Saclay-Massy-St Quentin > 30 000 housings are to be built in this area. The city is conceived as an artificial ecosystem, a para-living organism.
Urban agriculture Agro-ecosystem lines curve are set between the construction lines, generating continuous biological spaces. Some of these spaces are reserved for biodiversity, others to walk, or to purify the water, or are collective or individual gardens. The major part is devoted to a profitable agriculture and horticulture. Ecological Computing Micro-biological sensors, chemical caloriphiques, physical, volumetric, phonic pressuremeter, etc. are densely distributed throughout the city to analyze all the symptoms related to Urban biological environment, in real time. Energy Energy is produced continuously (gravity water, solar, wind, thermal sensors, brake transport, domestic methane generators) and is stored. It is reintroduced into the grid as far as it is needed. Multirecycling A part of recycling takes place in the buildings basements. What can not be treated at the scale of a single building is treated across the neighborhood. The equipemtns are shared. The surplus is valued in peri-urban agricultural purposes. Green machines Robots collect, identify, and sort all the wastes. They maintain all networks. They gather plants in the basements lagoons, grind them, compost them, carry them to the growing areas in need.
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