Adviser: Ar. Angelo A. Parungao
Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology - Cabanatuan
The City of Cabanatuan lies on the central plane of the province of Nueva Ecija. It
is considered one of the hottest places in the country during summers in the past few
years, though it’s a factor to help agriculture, in some instances, it has negative effects in
everyday living especially in the most urbanized areas of the city.
Cabanatuan was once an agricultural land but as time passed by, it became more
progressive in trade and commerce as it serves as the center of transportation of the
province and other neighboring places. In the progress of time, commercial buildings
array along the main streets of the city where the sheds of trees existed. Different
establishments congested the main street to get a higher number of good consumers.
Unplanned existence of these establishments creates irreparable damages to the image
of the city and more significantly in the natural state of the environment.
This project is eager to establish a prototype community planned along with the
environment. This project will help to realign the economic growth and modernization of
the city. It is possible to consider the existing environment while taking a rise in the
progress and development of the economy. This project is a community that maximizes
the usage of greens scapes all over the site wherein one can walk around under the shed
of the trees. It is an image of forest in the city where the greens are properly arranged in
line with the architecture of the community to make everyone live safe and sound, and
breathe the same air that Mother Nature does.
Trees are critical to the carbon sequestration from the earth’s atmosphere and
have a significant role in decreasing the carbon footprint of human. In a research result,
huge trees can captivate important amounts of carbon from the atmosphere each year,
as the tree catches carbon dioxide and respite oxygen. Vegetation, therefore, helps
improve air qualities in the cities as they absorb polluting particles. Maximizing urban
green spaces will help to alleviate a city’s already existing poor air quality that adversely
affects population. Moreover, trees and landscapes eliminate bad odors in the air.
Trees captivate heat and wind power, minimizing the environment’s impact on the
building’s temperature. Trees surrounding buildings can importantly decrease the amount
of heat that cools the building, and in turn decreases the energy consumption. Trees
balance the level of heat waves and cold air, building a sort of boundaries between the
walls of the building and the elements. Aside from its effect in building temperature, it also
shields the structure from other unwanted effects of the weather, such as gradual wearing
away of the walls. Vegetation around a building covers it from the elements and minimizes
heating and cooling costs.
As this project largely focuses on the provision of natural sustainability by using
trees and landscaping, it also considers the provision of other sustainable technologies
such as rainwater collective system and solar panel to sustain the consistent supply of
power and minimize its cost. Rainwater collective system can be used for utilities that
requires non-potable water supply such as water closet and plant watering. On the other
hand, solar panels can provide, at least, energy for lighting systems which is good for
power source blackout emergencies. Solar panels can also diminish the temperature
effect of the sun.
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