LANDSCAPE BEHIND TELE-COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUTURE MLA Y2 2020/21: BARCO112 Advanced Landscape Design Lifeng Lin Student Number: 20113424 Design Tutors: Doug Miller& Katya Larina
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Exploring the influence of traditional telecommunications and modern electronic communications on the contemporary landscape is my theme this year. At first, I looked at industrial telephone communication infrastructure in history, like how painting and iron were made and where the resource come from. However, contemporary communication had a more massive impact on the modern landscape. For example, data centres generate an amount of heat that is directly being released into the atmosphere, causing global temperatures to rise at an increased rate and resulting in long-term changes to the climate. As for pylons, it affects the beauty of nature. And whether should be removed that always being discussed by the public.
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For the data centre, I aim to collect waste heating, using it as a resource to create a tropical garden above the roof for workers to use. And the whole system can be selfregulation. For linear infrastructure, the idea is to create a no-man's corridor. Using aggressive plants planted in the buffer zone.
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i. Cast iron process of telephone booth ii Paint making process Toxic materials: Mordern communication infrastructures Current siuation of Data centre Current siuation of Linear infrastructure Data Centre Design: Heating Garden vii. Linear Infrastructure Design: No-man's Corridor vii. Final drawing
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My approach is to use landscape as an instrument to highlight the problems that contemporary communication infrastructure brought and show it to the world.
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The Lion Foundry survived for over a hundred years and was the last of the town's foundries to keep working, but when British Telecom stopped ordering red telephone kiosks in 1984 it closed
At Kirkintilloch the canal and railways meant that iron could be easily conveyed to its markets. This, along with the many local coal mines providing fuel, made Kirkintilloch an ideal centre for the ironfounding industry.
Kirkintilloch The drawings describes the iron production process of the telephone booth. Lion foundry is one of the designated factory by BT.
Cast iron process
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The drawings describes the paint production process of the telephone booth. There is 2 steps to produce currant red color. A paint is composed of pigments, solvents, resins, and various additives. The first part of this drawing shows how the pigment being made. And then the pigment being transported into the paint factory, Trimite Ltd. In the process of producing Chemical material. It also produces three types of waste: Solid, liquid and gaseous(or atmospheric emissions). And using heavy metals and energy consumption is also serious problems for the environment.
Paint making process
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iii. Toxic materials: Mordern communication infrastructures
People always seen advanced communication technologies as immaterial, no longer reliant on the physical constraints and pollution of transportation. Fewer have travelled further down the production chain to detail the environmental costs of extracting the raw materials and generating the energy digital media require or to trace the trails of pollution and waste incurred in transportation, use and disposal.
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The communications infrastructure consists of the local, regional, and global transport components.
The drawing combines a data centre, metro network, smart house, industrial area, linear infrastructure and underground cable. Showing how the modern communication infrastructure connects each other and how modern communication infrastructure affects and harms the urban landscape.
Datacenter(DC) as a modern communication facility, “It provides various services such as storage management processing and exchange of digital data and information for information and communication technology (Lu et al., 2011).” But at the same time, it is inevitable that it consumes energy and generates waste heat. This kind of high-tech infrastructure is highly needed by humans nowadays, and people tend to ignore its massive impact on the environment. Therefore, The energy efficiency of DC is becoming more and more significant. “Waste heat is an inevitable by-product of a DC and in any case must be managed (Lund et al., 2010).” So as a landscape architects, We need to find a more sustainable and efficient approach in the future to tackle the problem of reducing or completely avoiding the combustion of fossil fuel.
My design aims to utilize on-site or off-site renewable energy sources through reusing waste heat to reshape a landscape to reduce the impact of climate change.
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Location of pylon and data centre in Croydon
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The data centre uses its own waste heat to heat the roof garden. Wind buffers are also used to retain the temperature. A water pond collects rainwater when it rains and retains humidity. In winter, the plants here still bloom.
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vi. Data Centre Design: Heating Garden Wetland area Entrance Tropical garden Wind buffer Hot air WetlandWaterShadedEntranceTropicalpipegardenareatankarea 1 2 7 7564321 4 5 6 3 Heating Garden Power Generating area Wetland area
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vii. Linear Infrastructure Design: No-man's Corridor 50m
Through planting aggressive plants in the buffer zone, Creating a noman's land corridor. This design uses natural landscape condition design to expose hidden infrastructure, highlight the landscape and show people how modern communication systems impact our nature.
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I proposed 2 landscape approaches to two different modern communication infrastructures. One is the tropical garden for the data centre. Another one is a no-man's corridor for the insect or little animals. With water treatment plant aside, providing clean water to the two wetlands through underground pipes. The proposes aim to expose the unseen problem of telecommunication infrastructure.
