How to reconcile the needs of an always
growing urban population and the lack of available space? Building the city of the future requires to
think differently transportation, facilities and accessibility.
Profiling particularly outstanding
achievements in underground infrastructure across the world, the ITA Tunnelling
Awards support a wide and diverse range of tunnelling projects through 9
categories, from huge-scale and large-budget infrastructure projects to more
specific ground-breaking technical innovations, and through one particular
category “Innovative Underground Space Concept”.
The 3 finalists of this category have focused
on forward-thinking projects and propose new concepts to support the idea of a
new resilient and sustainable organization of the city. What are the functions
most likely to be transferred to underground spaces? What are the most
innovative projects?
• TURKEY TO CREATE AN UNDERGROUND
INTERMODAL HUB IN BOSTANCI NEIGHBORHOOD, ISTANBUL :
Bostanci intermodal hub includes the southern
terminal of the Bostanci-Dudullu line (14km, 13 stations) and consists into a
12.000sqm underground station, integrating a 4 stories underground parking, an
at-grade large public space with a garden, and pedestrian connection with bus,
taxi, ferryboat and the future Marmarai line.
Bostanci project carries a double duty: the
ethic value of a public transit project designed to build a sustainable and
resilient city, and the aesthetic value of realizing a more comfortable
environment, underground and at-grade, inspired to the highest contemporary
standards of architectural and urban quality.
• JERUSALEM UNDERGROUND CEMETERY IN
TUNNELS (ISRAEL)
Building underground cemeteries addresses a
mounting global environmental and real estate crisis, while also meeting
emotional and religious needs.
Burial tunnels below existing cemeteries will
maximize vertical land use and, elsewhere, spare the aboveground landscape. The
project includes 22,000 tombs.
The proximity of underground cemeteries to
mushrooming cities will enable people to continue to visit their departed loved
ones, and in any weather. Subterranean cemeteries are an important tool in
reshaping urban areas to meet the challenges of the future without destroying
heritage or worsening surface environment.
• CAVERNS MASTER PLAN OF HONG-KONG
At last but not least, the third project
which has been selected for the ITA Tunnelling Awards is the “Caverns master
plan of Hong Kong”.
China is currently facing urban housing
issues as the cities are overcrowded and lack of available space is now
obvious.
The project was born by noting that rock
caverns may serve as a sustainable source of long-term land supply in Hong Kong
and may represent a new solution to relocate some functions and release some
precious space.
To unleash the potential of this hidden land
resource, Hong Kong has formulated its first Cavern Master Plan (CMP) to guide
and facilitate territory-wide application of rock caverns for supporting
continuous social and economic development of the city. The potential uses of these cavers vary
between food/wine storage, archives and data storage, research laboratories,
vehicle parking…
With the launch of the CMP, numerous cavern
projects covering a wide range of uses are being implemented in various the 48
Strategic Cavern Areas delineated in the plan.
ABOUT THE ITA TUNNELLING AWARDS :
Launched in 2015 by the International
Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES), the ITA Tunnelling
Awards identifies and rewards the most ground-breaking achievements in the
tunnelling industry. The first two ITA Tunnelling Awards events attracted more
than 450 attendees and 200 entries. Several months prior to this event, judges
scrutinize these applications to select a list of finalists for each of the
nine categories.
For more information:
https://awards.ita-aites.org/
About
the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association:
The International Tunnelling and Underground
Space Association (ITA) is a non -profit and non-governmental international
organization, which aims at promoting the use of underground space as a
solution to sustainable development. Founded in 1974 and operating out of
Lausanne, Switzerland, ITA currently associates 74 member nations, 300
affiliated members, 17 prime sponsors and 60 supporters.
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