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Journal 2: Chaoyang Park Plaza, Beijing by MAD Architect

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       Photograph by Iwan Baan from ArchDaily Located in the heart of downtown Beijing, next to Chaoyang Park, the building takes traditional Chinese landscape art as its inspiration and reimagines the relationship between large buildings and the site in the heart of the city, recreating the natural and spatial forms of the traditional landscape.  Ma Yansong's "landscape" is not only dedicated to the expression of architectural form but also responds to the environment to a certain extent.  With LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council, they experience the building's ventilation system and facade material selection. Ventilation system analysis diagram, source: ArchDaily 1. Ventilation system: Each Chaoyang park plaza tower outside the ridgelines are part of the ventilation system of each floor, Chaoyang park, even the lake brings to the building plenty of natural wind, when the wind blows the building, outside of the natural wind is tower ridge line

Journal 1: Kamuthi Solar Project

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        Image: Kamuthi Solar Project, source from: Greencitytimes India was the first country in the world to establish an official government agency for non-traditional energy, the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. India has been trying to find more sustainable sources of energy since the 1980s. The mission of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is to "increase the share of clean energy, increase its availability, improve its accessibility, increase energy affordability and maximize energy equity", with India aiming to provide solar power to more than 60 million Indian homes by 2022. The Kamuthi Solar Project is a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm capable of providing 648 megawatts of power. It is located in the town of Kamuthi, Ramanathapuram, India. It has more than 2.5 million individual Solar PV modules on 2,500 acres. The Kamuthi solar project provides energy to about 300,000 homes. Moreover, the project cost $710 million and became operational in 2016. Grow