Future Sustainability - contribution

Sustainability was not really directly address at any point throughout the design and development of our future scenario, and yet looking at our future scenario sustainability is heavily integrated into almost all aspects of it, both in terms of social and environmental sustainability. I fell that this is due to sustainability playing such an important part of architectural education in today's world that we no integrate it into our design process, rather then considering it a separate act. 

Environmental sustainability can be seen thoughout our scenario though the Maglev trains, the vertical farm, the public gardens, the vertical public space and the conversion of the existing Brisbane Streets. There are probably more that i cant think of off hand. My contributions to this include the ideas regarding rotating vertical farms in the streets of Brisbane, diagrams for the development of Maglev tracks (a brilliant sustainable find by Jess), and some diagrams relating to sky gardens. All of these diagrams can be seen below

Sustainability in a social sense was much more of a forethought in our vision. The way that we created community, bringing people together in the inner-city instead of labelling it as a place for work. We took a place that people are reluctant to live in, especially with families, and made it into something that people want to live in. A space that builds community and provides for families. We looked at what people look for in typical suburban homes and improved on that in an inner-city setting.