China is building an eco-city that combines the charms of urban and rural life

This project combines the benefits of urban life with life in the bosom of nature and aims to halt the mass flight of Chinese citizens to the countryside.

For more than 12 years, the Chinese government has been hatching plans to resettle 250 million villagers and farms in newly built cities. At the same time, many urban dwellers, tired of the noise, smoke and other unpleasant aspects of urban life, dream of escaping back beyond the city limits. Air pollution in Beijing, for example, has been compared to a nuclear winter.

The new project, which is currently being implemented in the vicinity of the city of Kunming (southwest China), should combine the charms of both urban and rural life – its buildings are being built right in the middle of a farm.

Designed by French architect Vincent Calebo, the “garden city” will unfold on nine hectares of land, on the site of an abandoned industrial site.

Each of the spacious, lit houses is energy self-sufficient – that is, it produces more energy than it can consume. Energy sources are solar panels and geothermal pumps (that is, devices that allow you to receive heat from the energy of the earth). Unused energy will be stored in special fuel cells, and used, for example, to charge electric cars, which, along with bicycles, will become the main means of transportation.

Outside the house will be surrounded by huge gardens and gardens. “Our goal is to bring organic farming back to the heart of the city, to the center of consumption,” Calebo said. It will be an urban landscape with no fences separating the villas, with the preservation of neighbourly relations of urban type and urban social ties.

The eco-city will have three types of houses, each with its own modern features. Mobius Villa resembles a loop shape and combines a vegetable garden on the roof with photovoltaic glass. Glass walls will be equipped with special shutters that will automatically regulate the flow of heat and light. A feature of Mount Villa will be panels filled with algae that will produce bio-hydrogen. Shell Villa will be built around a wind turbine.

It is not yet known when the new eco-city will be ready to host the first residents. The city is likely to become a model for other Chinese cities.



Source: mixstuff.ru



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