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ALTAVIEW HEALTHY LIVING
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HEALTHY LIVING - The 260-acre AltaView Healthy Living Community is an autonomous, multi-layered, mixed-use program that actively promotes health and wellness through housing, nature, architecture, and urban design. Electric transport, clean air, wellness & healthcare amenities, farm to table market, over 2 million sf of healthy living, healthcare and community facilities, located within generous green spaces. Each sector of AltaView is characterized by a distinct urban quality and atmosphere, with public spaces and neighborhood parks forming sub-centers within the larger community. Like waves in a pond, the systems, programs and spaces of the community form a context that allows for ever-changing patterns, relationships and synergies to occur; the basis of any functioning organism, and ultimately of healthy living.
MASTERPLAN - The masterplan transforms and restores the former site of Seaview Hospital—a baroque, radially planned tuberculosis treatment complex—and then radiates out in a series of concentric rings of modern living. The innermost ring is a car-free mixed-use core with wellness facilities. Next is a ring of green spaces, commercial and recreational facilities. The outermost ring includes 755,000 sf of newly built residential garden apartments overlooking the 180-acre greenbelt.
SMART LANDSCAPE - AltaView is bordered by hundreds of acres of forest, providing residents with a vast natural park landscape at their footsteps. Many hiking trails traversing these woodlands will terminate in the new village center. Landscaping also plays a major role in the programing and the atmosphere of the village center and the various sub-centers. The central plaza features many landscape elements, such as the re-created rose gardens, reflecting water ponds and rows of trees, providing shade and natural gathering places around the many new neighborhood amenities.
Permeable surfaces and natural storage mediums reduce storm water run-off and function as a free water source. Utilizing local plants will ensure that gardens grow naturally and require little or no maintenance. Gardening and stewardship of the environment also strengthens the sense of community and help maintain a neat and beautiful ambiance.
Green roofs reduce the heat island effect, which is the main cause of ozone production. Plants not only reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and produce oxygen, roots can also remove heavy metals, airborne particles and volatile organic compounds.
Geothermal energy reduces the carbon footprint, lowers cost, uses far less energy compared to heating. Savings in heating mode can be up to 3/4 of the cost of the electrical heating, and savings in cooling mode can be up to 1/4 to 1/2 of the costs of running a traditional air conditioner.
Solar lighting for pedestrian paths
The result is a completely connected community that fosters new forms of wellness, living, working, urban agriculture, and leisure.
