Outor Garden: Green City
In this project, designers, architects and engineers bring new possibilities of underground vertical space for human and plants. With the help of optical fiber to transport light underground, Outor Garden is committed to creating a vertical three-dimensional park in the future urban community. We created a new lighting systems based on optical developments. And with CNC automatic planting robots, citizens could personalize their own green space in the future.
How to help cities grow in a sustainable way?
Urban space utilization is becoming tenser, population density is increasing, and resources such as food have become relatively limited. However, high-rise buildings with increased floor space make the living environment of green plants worse, including problems such as reduced living space and insufficient sunshine time. How to maximize the use of space, energy, and solar energy to make future cities more flexible and sustainable has become an important issue.
We Always Thought Building Higher is the Solution
SAITAMA-SHINTOSHIN STATION "SKY FOREST" PLAZA
Urban sustainable design.
Street park that can control plant growth.
Drainage and lighting systems design.
Natural plant landscape replaces the downtown public landscape dominated by buildings, squares and roads.
What if We Can Expand Nature Underground
Field Research
How to connect human and plants?
1.Rooftop Garden-Natural Way
Location: The sixth floor of the library of Hunan Agricultural University.
Aim：Observe existing system working process and distribution
Vegetation layers: 2 floors.
Plant species: about 5-6 species.
Sunshine area: about 1 floor.
Breeding method: semi-automated.
Current status: unfinished, not open
Irrigation system Ventilation system Power system
Automatic irrigation system: First layer of vegetation watered by canals and water Pipe through, and the water is transported to second layer of vegetation through a vertical water pipe, and mostly automatic rotating spray Irrigation facilities can only be reached with the help of manual ladder.
Strength
1 Make full use of the roof area and natural sunshine.
2 Plan location according to phototropism of different plants.
3 Add natural space and cool down the modern architectural forest.
Weakness
1 A large number of pipelines need to be laid to provide electricity and water resources
2 The mechanical participation is low efficient and still requires a lot of manual maintenance
3 Unable to prevent the damage caused by extreme weather
2. Plant optical Lab-Scientific Way
Location: The 15th Teaching Building of Hunan Agricultural University
Aim: Study the growth of plants in different environments and find suitable plant species
Plant species: about 5-6 species
Illumination method: manual adjustment of light
Breeding method: professionals control variables
Light supplement Multilayer stereo Computer control Small space growth
Strength
1 Stable environment, easy to control.
2 Strong personalization that can be adjusted to various plant needs.
3 Not affected by natural climate, greatly improving production efficiency.
4 Various plant data can be monitored in real time.
Weakness
1 It is still in the experimental stage, most operations require people to perform.
2 More electricity and water resources are needed.
3 It is not possible to cultivate in a large area.
4 Without an integrated database, relevant data is difficult to apply in practice.
Plant Experiment:
Find suitable plants for our concept.
By artificially cultivating different kinds of plants, we try to find the most suitable plant for cultivation in an optical environment.
This plant should also have convenient cultivation, less manual intervention, and low requirements for the living environment.
Case 1 Tobacco cultivation：
Tobacco seedlings in the central and southern regions are raised from January to March. During this period, the temperature and light intensity are the lowest throughout the year in all regions. The problem of "low temperature and low light" is often encountered during the seedling period, which makes the tobacco seedlings grow slowly and the quality of seedlings is poor. Poor resistance and other phenomena.
Case 2 Planting of Dendrobium officinale：
The equipment simulates suitable environmental conditions such as substrate, temperature, light, air quality, humidity, etc., to form a professional and unique “microclimate”, and then uses modern agricultural management methods to control pests and diseases.
Case 3 Solanaceous vegetables：
Solanaceous Vegetables refer to vegetables in the Solanaceae family that use berries as their food organs, including tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. The LED light source made of phosphor and silica gel with a mass ratio of 1:10 has a more obvious promotion effect on the morphology of pepper seedlings
The most suitable plants found in optical Lab are？
Interview Analysis:
What Citizens Value Most?
Here is Our Solution, for a Better and Greener Community
Plant factory lighting uses optical fiber to transport light, which meets sustainable development while giving the plant the largest illuminance per unit area; custom planting species introduces CNC automatic planting technology, mobile phone The app can define the vegetables that need to be planted; The underground plant factory combines production and interaction, paying attention to the desire and interact with nature.
