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Exercises in Architectural Building and Engineering Professor Sensei Tsuyoshi Seike AUSMIP student Hugo Maia 37119711

Shinjuku Shintoshin District Heating and Cooling Center.

Visiting the Shinjuku Shintoshin District Heating and Cooling Center in the heart of the new Shinjuku has proven to be a remarkable experience concerning to city development. The radical approach followed to the Shinjuku Skyscraper District, formerly holding the Yodobashi Water Purification Plant shows it self to be distinct from the rest of Shinjuku City. A city within a city, that aimed to recreate once again the

international influences, has found in the place the perfect scenario for tabula rasa in mind, a new city with new and remarkable buildings, in which the scale stands beyond any comparison with the human nature. The plan for the skyscrapers hold on the memory of the previous Water Purification Plant in a way that the site remains has a memory, something remarkable Japanese. The place chosen for the Heating and Cooling Center fallow the same principle, using the site of an ancient building now facing the new city.

The need for energy requested by the skyscrapers was highly overcome by the incoming of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, a building that reaches a scale beyond any others. The experiment of a new city in Shinjuku is in this case taken to the end. Leading to the creation of new facilities; spaces; infra-structures and equipments. The construction of a Heating and Cooling Center stands has a request for the maintenance of the environments of the 2 200 000 square meters created by the new city. With a cooling capacity of 207,680 kw and a heating capacity of 173,139 kw the largest district heating and cooling center in the

world is expected to supply the cooling|heating needs of the place in a more efficient way that it would be by the used of individual units. In the same way, the possibility of gathering the productions units in only one place, its possible to reach lower levels of environmental pollution, such has noise, greenhouse gas emission, vibrations and even aesthetical pollution by eliminating the use of air conditioner units, chemises and cooling towers. The use of city gas has the source of energy, allows the production of steam in high pressure in order to provide chilled water and steam for the units in the skyscrapers. Gathering together of the cogeneration system to produce steam and electricity in order be used for the plant (besides Shinjuku Park Tower), allowing the topping system to provide the chilled water (4 C). Besides technical consideration and the remarkable improvements made in order to reach a more efficient and secure operating of the

center, the amount of energy produced and the importance of the center for the maintenance of the 22 costumers, from which 15 are Skyscrapers, stands has a mark in the relation between technology and the creation of new cities, bringing to discussion themes has the sustainability of new ways of living.

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