Event's IaaC - Alejandro Gutiérrez from Arup presenting the project of Dongtan City

Alejandro Gutiérrez, architect from Chile and part of the Arup team for the last five years, presents the Project of ¨Dongtan City¨, a new city being developed in the territory of Shanghai.
The project, which was presented as the first eco-city of the world with ¨0 Emissions¨, integrates the different layers of a city, such as the layer of energy, mobility, waste, the housing and the working spaces through the interaction of their diverse structures, in an effort of making the city more efficient.
¨We proposed to our client to try and obtain a 60% of selfsufficiency and he challenged us by asking us to reach a percentage of 100%...¨
Arup, also develops urban projects in China and Russia applying similar systems with the one in Dongtan City.
www.arup.com/eastasia/project.cfm?pageid=7047http://www.arup.com/