One central park

Today I travelled through to city to meet my friend who studies in U Syd. As I always walk to there from the Railway Square, I get pass a building with tones of vegetation and flower on it. It gives me an instant feeling like this “What a messy building!” The building wall carries a lot of random positioned plant, which are growing vigorously without control, seems like a wild animal.

Within such an urban context, this building, with an attempt to illustrate how sustainability can be incorporated into building, works well according to the qualities it shows, not only the vertical garden, but also the spirit that it wants to convey to us. This spirit can be seen from numerous facilities within the building. The huge heliostat reflect daylight to the open garden and shopping mall below attract viewer attention, make them think about the environmental problem we are facing. For this one specifically, it demonstrates that overshadowing problem caused by skyscrapers, which fill the whole city. New architects may have a reference to follow and new ideas maybe further inspired by such innovative design. An encouraging effect may lead them to design more environmentally respective architecture.

This kind of construction has caused lots of environmental problem other than the one mentioned above. One Central park, though people thinks that its selling point only lies into the dramatic structural system and the vegetated façade, its internal facilities follow the central spirit too. The building deploys a tri-generation system to reduce the usage of emission of greenhouse gases. Different from coal-fired power plant, which uses coal as the main fuel, this system burns natural gas, allowing itself to be twice as efficient as coal-fired plants. Electricity, heating and cooling service are given to residents and workers at a high efficiency.