“We believe we can actually double Toronto’s usable outdoor hours and plan to test this in Quayside,” said Rit Aggarwala, head of urban systems with Sidewalk Labs.
Introduction
The design reflects the smart city's consideration of the actual needs ofpeople's lives.A lotof future exploration is not only in the form of space, but also in themechanism process, so it is not suitable for urban renewal, the new town iseasier to cut in. In addition, the future of the city has never been onlytechnology, this project has a large number of public space and street design.Modularity and flexibility, which Sidewall has always emphasized, lie in theidea of holding property rather than selling it.
Sidewalk Toronto Smart Community Project
Reason to Be Selected
Making all of this possible in Toronto’s four-season climate will involve new technologies like road tiles with sensors that can detect when a person is walking on them and can heat up to melt snow. The open foyers in each building will be automatically shielded by barriers during cold weather, high winds or rain
Highlights:
Building comfortable public space
Humanized transformation of waterfront area
Intelligent pavement and street design
Intelligent outdoor environment improvement device
Details
Building comfortable public space: The public space in the entire community includes parks, small markets,retail space at the bottom, sidewalks, and any place where people can gettogether. “Public space should beable to respond to the actual needs of the community, provide the public with aseamless mix of indoor and outdoor experience, and all seasons are comfortableand pleasant.”,As canbe seen from the details of the plan, this concept integrates all aspects ofdesign and becomes the core and characteristic of the Sidewalk Toronto smartcommunity.
Humanized transformation of waterfront area: The last and most popular type of public space system is the design ofpublic space in waterfront areas. Aiming at this content, Sidewall mainly aimsat how to enlarge the water area and improve the accessibility of waterfrontspace.
Intelligent pavement and street design: Hexagonal modular road pavement can respond toreal-time weather and traffic conditions, and redistribute the right of waythrough different colors such as LED. The design of the pavement follows theconcept of "putting people first". Sidewall, in particular, considersthat the future of driverless popularity will revolutionize street design, andcities need more flexible transportation systems, but no one can say exactlyhow future road designs will respond. Therefore, the application of newtechnology (such as flexible road rights) can meet the changing trend of roadtraffic, making street space flexible and resilient.
Intelligent outdoor environment improvement device: The design chooses to install a large-scale membraneoutdoor device to protect against wind and rain, together with environmentalsensors and corresponding environmental adjustment equipment (perhaps includingtemperature, humidity, etc.) as a complete system to improve the outdoor publicspace.Thecore of the outdoor environment system should be real-time perception ofenvironmental data and real-time adjustment response of the membrane device.For example, in pleasant weather, the film is kept in a closed state, andin rainy and windy seasons, or in cold weather, the film device isautomatically opened, and other supporting equipment is opened at the sametime.
Conclusions
From this announcement, the Sidewalk Toronto ubiquitously reflects thesmart city's consideration of the actual needs of people's lives. Flexiblespatial patterns, implementation response mechanisms, and innovative buildingmaterials are all means to a more humane "complete community," wheretechnology serves life.It is undeniable that compared with the high cost of traditional asphaltconcrete pavement, flexible road weight will increase the traffic risk index,and how to solve the height and application of wooden buildings is still aserious obstacle that Sidewalk really needs to overcome.
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