Automated Construction - Test Input

STUDY AND LITERATURE REVIEW
The first step towards the research goal was to study
and analyze the design parameter with the real world
examples.
Decentralized energy generation
To provide a decentralized energy generation, different
practiced energy resources were studied along
with related physical factors, technologies, disadvantages,
storage and the efficiency. Wind, waste,
sunlight, heat, kinetics and water are different energy
resources at present in use. Wind power is one of the
renewable energy resources to make useful energy
by windmills, wind pumps or sails. It also has less
environmental impacts. Many Countries like USA,
Germany, India, UK, Spain, China, Italy, Canada,
France and others are already using it for power generation.
Organic waste is a resource that needs to be tapped
and not to be wasted into landfills or reduced to ashes
and dust in incinerators. The renewable energy
produced from anaerobic digestion process can be
seen as a good reason for many communities to start
transformation of our valuable resources 10 . Electricity
production and the usage in internal combustion engine
are the common examples of biogas.
Sunlight is another widely recognized renewable
source of energy which is free of cost and clean energy
with negligible environmental impacts. It can be
utilized for power production using different technologies
like photovoltaic panels (silicon/organic) and
artificial photosynthesis.
Kinetics is another energy resource; human movement
can also be used to produce energy by piezoelectric
effect. Commuters on the Tokyo station walk on
a piezoelectric sheet which generates electricity when
pedestrian step on it 11 .
Fig.5. Energy generating floors at Tokyo Subway Station
Water can also be used for power generation by using
water splitting, turbines or pumped hydro storage
technologies. High rise building can produce power
from rainwater as it falls from almost 200m in a 50
floor building.
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In-situ farming
In-situ is a Latin phrase which translates literally to 'In
position 12 . This parameter encourages to make use of
on-site available resources and harvesting the one’
own farm at his location. Vertical farming is a good
way to implement in cities. There are different options
for in-situ farming like aeroponics (process of growing
plant in air or mist environment without soil), wall
system (mounting panels to the wall with required
quantity of water supply) and hydroponics (growing
plants using mineral nutrient solution). Different technologies
had already implemented pertaining to these
options like aerofarm, parabienta, plantlab/nuvege,
verticop and omega garden. First high intensity vertical
hydroponic system of its kind is installed at
Paignton Zoo in England to feed the animals.
Fig.6. Vertical hydroponic system to feed zoo animals 13
In-situ resource utilization
As per this parameter, it is preferred to use the on-site
available resources. The examples of in-situ resource
utilization can be seen in the past like the people of
the mid-coast region of Perú have used totora (plant)
to build their caballitos de totora, small rowed and
straddled fishing vessels, for at least 3,000 years 14 .
The Uru people, an indigenous people predating the
Inca civilization, live on Lake Titicaca upon floating
islands fashioned from this plant. The Uru people also
use the totora plant to make boats (balsas) of the
bundled dried plant reeds 15 .