Solar panels, LED lighting and air roads will make the city cleaner

American designers from the Studio SHoP Architects has proposed an interesting project for the landscaping of the city of Dallas (Texas). The environment of this city is not the first decade suffering from car exhausts. The new project involves a lot of innovative solutions, at times, quite unexpected.


The Hyper project Landscape consists of three main sections, which are designed to make life in the city better, and its atmosphere cleaner. First of all, Hyper provides total Landscape greening streets with trees, lawns shrubs that will be planted in special beds. The project also required to weed the lawns, the roofs of houses, administrative and office buildings in the city. Where possible, it is recommended to deploy on the rooftops solar panel system.



The second paragraph talks about Hyper Landscape that the entire public of the streets needs to translate into more energy-efficient LED lighting, which is approximately 10-15% in the daytime will be supported by local solar panels.



The third paragraph prescribes the development of a system of air routes. Under the "air road" the creators of the project implies the creation and development of the system of bridges that should be built on green areas and on existing roads. These bridges will move pedestrians, cars or trains. Anyway, this should reduce the traffic load on the city's infrastructure. In accordance with the second paragraph is also recommended to cover the formed dark areas of the city with LED lighting, which must run 24 hours a day due to the lack of sunlight.



Project Hyper Landscape, has become one of the three projects adopted by the vote administration Dallas. To choose the best project to be in late spring 2014, and is scheduled to begin in 2015.

Source: www.ecobyt.ru/