Open AccessINTELLIGENT ROOFTOP GREENHOUSES AND GREEN SKYLINE CITIES
Author(s) -
Marius M. Bălaş,
Jeleikolić,
Ramona Lile,
Mihaela Popa,
Roxana-Mariana Beiu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sws journal of earth and planetary services
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2664-0090
DOI - 10.35603/eps2019/issue2.02
Subject(s) - skyline , renewable energy , architectural engineering , greenhouse gas , smart city , greenhouse , computer science , architecture , environmental science , internet of things , civil engineering , engineering , world wide web , geography , ecology , electrical engineering , archaeology , horticulture , biology
The paper proposes a new concept of green building, able to oppose the global warming, the Intelligent Rooftop Greenhouse iRTG, as a development of the Integrated Rooftop Greenhouse IRTG. Our approach is to replace conventional roofs with IRTGs, which are constructively connected with the interior of the building by flows of energy, gazes (mainly O2 enriched air from RTG to building and CO2 enriched air from building to RTG) and water in order to improve the building’s metabolism. A tight human-plant symbiosis is created such way. iRTGs perfect this architecture by actively controlling the energy, gazes and water flows, by collecting the available renewable energy resources (geothermal, sun, wind) and by adding Internet of Things IOT features to the system, in order to connect it to a surrounding Smart City. This way iRTGs may achieve an efficient integrated management of energy, gases and water, using just existing technologies: heat pumps (water to water for building’s basement and air to air for greenhouse), solar panels, IOT equipment, etc., controlled in a smart/intelligent manner. If a Smart City is composed mostly of iRTG buildings it becomes a Smart Green Skyline City, with low carbon footprint and high carbon offset. The paper provides a mathematical iRTG model.