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| **** Student Citation for Design - 2009 **** |
| # 266 |
| Category: Students |
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Though situated only ten miles from the moderating influence of the Pacific Ocean, the San Fernando Valley continues to reveal a trend of yearly increasing temperatures, resulting in an urban phenomenon
known as the Urban Heat Island Effect. The continued and expanding urban coverage over natural landscape creates surfaces and conditions that reflect higher than normal temperatures, thus calling for a solution that encourages a symbiotic relationship between natural land and industrial urbanization in which the needs of both communities are neither sacrificed nor disregarded. From micro-scale strategies that retrofit existing conventional industrial buildings to macro-scale strategies that utilize gravity fed natural water treatment systems, the Urban Cool Island maximizes each strategy to serve as a prototype for existing and future industrial zones, instilling community pride while fostering a quality of life for industrial workers.
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| Cool Island:daybreak |
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| Micro Strategy |
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| industrial retrofit |
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| Macro Strategy |
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| Site Strategies |
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| program diagrams |
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| cool island plan |
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| library interior |
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| cool island: section |
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| cool island: day |
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