From grey towards green. about the urban energy fold at Symbiont City

Mestre, Nieves; Rodrigues, Luc�lia Taranto; Hurtado, Eva; Roig, Eduardo

Abstract

Instead of the energy and ecological relocation, SYMBIONT City detects energy opportunities and possible urban folding to achieve thermodynamic benefits. Although some agendas have already fostered the concept of symbiotic planning, neither current infrastructural systems nor urban regulatory frameworks allow for its real implementation. SYMBIONT is a set of local laboratories designed to enable new synergies between waste, energy and information flows on existing urban waste transfer facilities. It pretends to raise the level of urban resilience in cities by acting on existing urban facilities and adjacent urban setting through the implementation of local laboratories able to monitor, process, and reconnect existing waste, energy and information flows while recovering the notion of infrastructure as public space through social engagement actions. These spatial facilities have a strategic value as nodal urban locations—with potential phase-change capacity—for neighbourhood waste and energy flows. These micro-infrastructural interventions will help in the aforementioned transition allowing for a turn from “grey” towards “green” infrastructures, with capacity to provide social, ecological and economic benefits to urban communities such as reduction of waste disposal, local energy generation and storage, improvement of air quality, reduction of energy costs and new opportunities to social cohesion and engagement.

Citation

Mestre, N., Rodrigues, L. T., Hurtado, E., & Roig, E. From grey towards green. about the urban energy fold at Symbiont City. In Carbon footprint and the industrial life cycle (485-500). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54984-2_21

• Online Publication Date: May 30, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Electronic ISSN: 1865-3529
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 485-500
• Series Title: Green energy and technology
• Series ISSN: 1865-3537
• Book Title: Carbon footprint and the industrial life cycle
• ISBN: 978-3-319-54983-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54984-2_21
• Keywords: Waste Management; Municipal Solid Waste Management; Floor Area Ratio; Urban Metabolism; Waste Management Facility
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/862497
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-54984-2_21