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'The Network City'
in cooperation with STAWON
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| The Network City is a collection of networks and settlements.
The network has a high transfer speed and gives the inhabitants quick access
to ways to fulfil their needs. Connections made are both digital and physical.
The network city is connected to bigger networks using an interface (transferium). |
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A choice for transportation can be made in the transferium
depending on time, space, speed and goal. The spatial translation is a design
for a transferium as a connection between motor way and railway. In the
transferium people and goods can be exchanged between trains, cars and vehicles.
The transferium has a function for meetings, lunches, parking, shopping
and maintenance. |
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| Living around a transferium means specific neighbourhoods
with free housing structures like Water world, Ecovillage, Cybercity and
Green village. Here is a place where the network citizen can find peace
and quietness. Social processes are important. The settlements are connected
to the internet and to the transferium. Digital shopping means home delivery
of goods. The delivery service from the transferium uses clean electric cars. The only vehicles allowed in the
settlements are electric. |
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| The houses are free to be designed by the inhabitants. The
only standard part is the docking station. This unit is the load station
for the electrical cars, the delivery box, the junction box, the power supply
for and the inverter room of the PV-system. A LCD wall can be used for communication
or information. The power supply is de-centralised because of the PV-roofs
in these houses. |
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| Ideas from this study have been used for the Etten-Leur ZERO
Energy project. |
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| Remember
Buckminster Fuller
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