Norway discloses plans to build sustainable city

Many countries these days are taking a step forward to move towards sustainable and renewable energy sources in one way or other. Similarly, Norway has decided to make up a sustainable city and become more future oriented.

Norway has decided to set up its capital city, Oslo, as a home for sustainable energy resources. Haptic Architects and the Nordic Office of Architecture has recently unveiled their plans for creating a sustainable city right next to Oslo’s airport, naming it ‘Oslo Airport City (OAC)’ and it will be the ‘first energy positive airport city’.

The future city will consume the energy that is created only within the city itself with only driverless and electric vehicles to be seen on the roads. Talking to Dezeen, director of Haptic Architects Tomas Stokke said, “This is a unique opportunity to design a new city from scratch.”

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As Futurism explains, the OAC will be ‘extremely walkable’. People won’t have to take any sort of transportation as they can easily walk to majority of the places. Secondly, the city’s center will contain no car at all, which will be made a reality through the city’s feature of walkability. Next, there will be numerous green technologies including solely electric and driverless vehicles, ‘smart’ waste tech, security tech and auto-lighting.

Moreover, the city will use only its own produced renewable energy through which fossil fuel use and the energy used to transport fuel and energy will be cut down. The futuristic city will also sell the surplus energy that it produces. It will also use the surplus energy to de-ice planes that will again cut down the airport’s fuel usage. Last but not the least, public transportation will be tremendously close. There will be a cycling route and numerous outdoor activities that won’t require electricity.

The construction for this city is expected to initiate in 2019 and will be entirely finished by 2022. “We believe the future of airport city development in Norway and Oslo is not a matter of if, but when,” expressed managing director of OAC, Thor Thoeneie.