Quantitative research on the capacity of urban underground space – The case of Shanghai, China

From the Piranesi fantastic architectures to the animation movies and video games of the last thirty years, a new design approach has been introduced and developed: the design of the virtual space. Designing the "virtual" means experiencing a multidisciplinary approach where architecture, engineering, and urban planning meet the new horizons of information and communication technology. This study is focused on virtual space, which is an underground city. Mankind have always made and used underground environments: the possibilities of unlimited spaces to potential development, the reduced needs for raw materials for the construction and the protection from outdoor weather are some of the reasons that prompted humans to the realization of underground spaces in the past. These reasons and the availability of innovative technologies could encourage a breakthrough in the realization of new underground environments. A recent example is represented by the Underground City of Montreal (RÉSO). We present the architectural design of a virtual underground city, which is called Arch [ane], and its evaluation. The underground city is modular and the studied module is composed of eight floors with a total depth of 400 m and dimensions of 800 m × 800 m. The study comprises the evaluation of the effect of sunlight on each eight floors of the city. Daylighting simulations were performed considering different cities at different latitudes, days, and hours. The results have shown that the particular design of the underground city with skylights gives significant values of illuminance at a certain depth. Furthermore, the simulation results show how huge can be the potentialities of software to simulate extremely big environments.

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“…2-4. The design and the placement of skylight were performed considering the outcomes of research in [12,13].…”

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“…Another example is PATH, a network of 28 km underground pedestrian roads, realized under the ground of Toronto, Canada, connected with residential and office buildings, that houses an overall commercial area of above 371.600 m 2 [10]. Similar projects were designed for Amsterdam (Amfora Project [11]), Chicago, and Shanghai [12].…”

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Simulation of Daylighting Conditions in a Virtual Underground City

Alcini¹,

Schiavoni

Asdrubali

2015

Journal of Daylighting

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“…An empirical study showed both population density and Per capita GDP have positive correlations to the future demand of underground space (He, Song et al 2012). Therefore, three driving forces are included into demand sub-criteria from 2.1 to 2.3.…”

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An integrated planning concept for the emerging underground urbanism: Deep City Method Part 1 concept, process and application

Parriaux

Thalmann

et al. 2013

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

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Abstract:Four underground resources have been seen as having a long-term potential to support sustainable urban development: underground space, groundwater, geomaterials and geothermal energy. Utilization of these resources proposes a new paradigm of economic development: underground urbanism. The new management approach named "Deep City Method" is put forward to aid decisionmakers to integrate global potential of the urban underground into city-scale strategic planning. The research output will be presented in form of two papers each with a different focus. Part 1 aims to introduce the concept, process and initial application in Switzerland; Part 2 is devoted to show methodological insight for a new zoning policy in China and investment scenarios for project cost viability. This Part 1 paper will begin by presenting the fundamental concept of the Deep City Method, followed by a proposition for a trans-institutional planning process. The application is firstly based on a rating system to identify cities having a potential for underground development. The city of Geneva is selected for conceptual application and strategic level study. Further operational steps are required in order to generalize the concept to other cities around the world.

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“…This maze of utilities has been ironically termed "the spaghetti subsurface problem" (Oude 1992) by municipal engineers. Because of the expanding population with its demands for more diversified services, we cannot afford this piecemeal type of utilities growth (Sterling & Carmody, 1993;Sterling, 1997;Cano-Hurtado & Canto-Perello, 1999;Duffaut & Labbe, 2002;Zhang et al, 2009;He et al, 2012;Jung, 2012). Moreover, it is part of European Union policy to achieve a high level of health and environmental protection, and one of the objectives to be pursued is sustainable development (Steurera & Bergerb, 2011).…”

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Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space

Canto-Perello

Curiel-Esparza

Calvo

2013

Expert Systems with Applications

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ElsevierCantó Perelló, J.; Curiel Esparza, J.; Calvo Peña, V. (2013). Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space. Expert Systems with Applications. 40 (11) AbstractA utility tunnel is defined as an underground structure containing one or more utilities, permitting the installation, maintenance and removal of the systems without the necessity of making street cuts or excavations. These underground facilities contain all essential utilities serving large urban areas collected together in a tunnel; therefore they are an inviting target for sabotage or vandalism. This paper proposes an expert system combining color-coded scales, Delphi and AHP methods to analyze criticality and threats on utility tunnels to support planning of security policies for utilities in urban subsurface.

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Quantitative research on the capacity of urban underground space – The case of Shanghai, China

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Simulation of Daylighting Conditions in a Virtual Underground City

Simulation of Daylighting Conditions in a Virtual Underground City

An integrated planning concept for the emerging underground urbanism: Deep City Method Part 1 concept, process and application

Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space

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