Stockholm 2004

Minderman Nicholas, Ruelle Delphine, Stojanovski Todor & Thitimakorn Kriangkrai

Combination of Ideas&Concepts

Ideas&Concepts• Cloud House/City Spatial Plots&Flexibility• Hundertwasser Concepts Tree Tenant,

Gardens&Aesthetics• Closed City Block Structure• Traditional Architecture

Aesthetics&Inspirations• Green Function&Structure Perfect Life with

Nature

The Base• Commercial, Service &

Housing• Function Bridge

between the Tenants and Nature

The Spatial Plots• Flexibility&Housing

Tenant Preferences• Structure Connection

through Towers, Corridors&Bridges

• Roof&Plot Gardens

Vision

Inspirations…

Hundertwasser HouseWien, Austria

More Inspirations…

Casa MilaBarcelona, Spain

More Inspirations…

Tree Tenant Friedensreich Hunderwasser

Transport system: use of private cars

• Assumed frequency of car ownership: 0.8 car per household

• Parking garage located underground Does not create a visual barrier• Incentive system to reduce the use of

private cars

Transport system: encourage public

transportProgram goals• Reduce automobile dependence by a

voluntary system• Change in consumption habits for some of

the journeys• Take advantage of available facilities:

cycling, walking, bus system

Implementation process• Odometer readings in each vehicle• Statistics: 40km per day; ca. 1200 km per

month• Reduction of 33% (800 km per month)

results in an incentive• Suggested incentives: discount on bus

pass or at cycling shopMonitoring• Occasional audits• Should not encourage people to get a car

in order to get the discount

Transport system: encourage public

transport

Transport system: buses

Proposition:• Use a part of the bus network; part of

Uppsala bus fleet fuelled with biogas.• Re-route the buses travelling on line 5• Insert one or two stops in the project area• Frequency: around 1 bus every 10 or 20

minutes• Connection to city center: less than 5

minutes

Transport system: pedestrian and bicycle

paths• Planned pedestrian network through the

entire area• Possible system of bridges between

buildings: Good communication Stronger sense of community• Bridge leading to the sports field• Off-road bicycle path next to the river front

for safety and better environment

Grey Water Reuse• Water is one of the most valuable nature resources due

to its necessity for daily life. Grey water (showers, sinks, washing and general use, everything except toilets) recycling is one of many developed technologies to conserve or reuse the household wastewater.

• Aim to apply a greywater reuse system in sustainable water management for sustainable housing, which have significant advantages according to ecological as well as to economical aspects.

• Greywater reuse should fulfill four criteria: hygienic safety, aesthetics, environmental tolerance, and technical and economical feasibility.

• The system features are storage tank, filtering units, plumbing units, a pipe to send water to the garden, and the garden being watered

Urine Separation • The main purpose is to apply the system to recycle nutrients

from human waste back into the environment and into productive systems such as farming fertilization for sustainable housing.

• Human urine is a potential source of phosphate, it is about 500 liters per person per year.

• Urine separation method has been well-developed & testing full scale in Sweden .

• Applying human waste to crops is safer than spraying with chemical fertilizers because it diverts raw sewage from rivers and can help improve agricultural production.

llustration: ©A.Hanæus, 1996 Design of a urine separating system with soil infiltration for treatment of faces

and greywater. From Hanæus and Johansson, 1996.

Heating and Electricity

• Awareness is most important!• District heating system-renewably

fueled• Produce electricty with solar cells

– Total temand ~570 MWh/year– Optimum production 204 MWh/year– Up to 35% renewable energy!

Solid Waste ManagementTrash Pre-Sort• According to current municipal policy• Up to 85% of Sweden’s waste is recycled• Goal of 90% with help of informative packetCompost• High capacity system for household

materials• ’Compost Hosts’ to help tend systems and

inform new residents of do’s and don’ts.

Other Important Considerations

• Tenure has an impact on sustainible housing

• Soil contamination/other impacts• ’Island’ concept; flexibility in long-

range• Mixture of open and closed natural

space• Sustainibility with respect to social,

natural and built environments

Questions?

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