 Well, a very warm welcome to the Hevels Insignia Presence edX, a series by Realty Plus master class. Friends edX talk is a unique initiative dedicated to facilitate the development of an ecosystem for world-class designers in India. This one of a kind architecture and design talk show aims to enable the process of collaboration with the best in the industry the world has to offer. So as to position architects, designers and manufacturers as partners offering complete solutions. I'm Sapna Srivaso, editor of Realty Plus magazine and let's begin with a brief introduction of Realty Plus before we introduce our speaker of the day-to-day. So here we have a little introduction that I would like to share with you all about Realty Plus. Friends Realty Plus is part of exchange for media and BW business world group and the monthly publication is the real estate vertical of the group that caters to the needs of the real estate business. 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So this was a brief snippet of what Realty Plus does and what our products are in case you would like to know more about us, do get in touch with Ms. Tripti Kheria, publisher and business head. While this was our small introduction, let's get back to our event of the today and let me bring Mr. Vivek Yadav, who is the Senior Vice President, Havers India Limited, to please share his views and also talk about edict series presented by Havers Insignia. But before that, let me give a brief introduction of Mr. Vivek Yadav. Vivek is an industry expert with 31 years of experience in electrical and automation. He is currently heading Havers Domestic Circuit Protection Electric Wiring Accessories and Home Automation Business along with projects and enterprise business which cut across all business vertical in Havers. He has worked in all domains from residential and commercial venting to industries and infrastructure and he has extensive experience in products and solutions from circuit protections, automation in industries and homes. Mr. Yadav, over to you now. Right, thank you Sapna for those words and the introduction. At the outset, let me welcome all our esteemed viewers who have spared their busy time and are with us today. And also a very warm welcome to our guest speaker for the day, architect Vicky Chan. So before I give you a little bit of detail on our edict program and our larger program of the specified engagement which we call as the Havers Insignia. Let's look at a small short AV which has been specially curated for this program. So can we have the AV please? For more than six decades, Havers India Limited has been focusing on building a better future, a future where technology is used to drive progress, improve business outcomes and create a better quality of life. Today, Havers stands tall in the FMEG sector as a major power distribution equipment manufacturer with a strong global footprint owing to its innovative future-ready products for a wide spectrum of applications. With the acquisition of Lloyd in 2017, Havers has made a foray into high-potential consumer durable segment with offerings of air-conditioners, LED televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and dishwashers. The new synergy further complements the brand's deeper-into-homes vision. Havers owns some of the most prestigious global brands like Crabtree, Lloyd, Standard and Rio. Its global network constitutes over 5,000 professionals across its offices. As part of its make-in-India philosophy, Havers is manufacturing 97% of its products in-house. With 14 state-of-the-art, fully automated manufacturing plants located across India, Havers offers superior quality and globally benchmarked products to its customers. 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Havers is inspiring the world and making a difference. You're on mute Vivek. Oh sorry. So let me talk more a little bit more about the Havers Insignia program and edX is part of that program. So edX as you see while Sapna gave the introduction it's a platform where we are getting the best designers the best in the industry to talk to our community or specifiers to share and learn from the best in the industry on various topics that we bring to you on this platform. So Havers Insignia actually is a unique framework of we call it 4I which is incubate, innovate, interact and influence and under these we are going to curate similar platforms like edX on different topics. So the next could be a white paper which could be on issues, trends, policies and causes. Another could be a yearbook on forcible trends which could also be a reference guide for budding designers, setting the agenda for the year, maybe globally benchmark projects to showcase in that yearbook. So a yearbook which will be a sought after book for the designer fraternity. We will also introduce a contest here which could be on redesigning the existing icons, old monuments, cities and reuse the ruins. Also there would be awards for recognizing the best among the equals. So these would be some of the platforms that we will bring about like here in edX reality plus is helping us curate this program and bring to our esteemed specified community. We will be using similar partners for each of the elements that I talked about and of course as I said the objective of Havers Insignia program would be to collaborate with the best and engage with the best in the industry and take the profession of designing forward and collaborate with them as an industry partner. So this is what the introduction of Havers Insignia program is and to take the program, today's program forward I'll hand it over back to Sapna for taking the edX program forward today. Thanks Vivek, rightly mentioned we need such kind of knowledge sharing platforms where we can bring together industry experts you know to share their knowledge with us to share the knowledge with all the stakeholders of the industry and what best way to do it through edX series. So now let us bring on the stage the start of the day. We have with us from Hong Kong the young and dynamic architect Vicky Chan founder Avoid Obvious Architects. Let me give a brief introduction of our eminent speaker of the day. Vicky Chan founded Avoid Obvious Architects in 2012 and his office you know his firm has offices in New York and Hong Kong. The firm has been pushing sustainable buildings and cities with focus on combining art degree technology. His projects in fact have been exhibited in 37 cities across the country across the world. Vicky Chan has also founded a volunteering organization to teach architecture to students and he has done that for almost 3000 children today talking to them about sustainable design and architecture. He believes our future will be brighter if children are more equipped with creative and sustainable thinking. So what a great idea and on that positive note I welcome our eminent speaker of the day architect Vicky Chan. I hand it over to you Vicky. Oh thank you Semna for the very very nice opening speech. So without further ado I'm going to actually break down today's topic into three different sections. I'm going to talk about how we actually started our firm and what we do and then we'll go into some of the more interior scale or landscape scale in terms of like what we do with like smart farming. We use that farming as a way to actually make the city more sustainable and people's life has been improved over some of the projects that we built using farming as a way to activate their life and then we'll talk about smart building as a much larger scale of how the building could work with like some of the latest technology and we were in some of the topic we have today with a really really big scale project with a smart city and our team our team is relatively small young team. We are made up of like older senior architects and some of the younger designer among us. Many of them were many of us are actually trained either in Hong Kong or me and Ken were actually trained in the US. So we combine like multiple countries expertise into our team and we also teach we do a lot of volunteering work the organization that we founded is called architecture for children. So we started it in New York and we wanted to spread all the idea we had into we wanted to spread all the idea we had globally not just like in Asia but also in America and also some other country. Very luckily about two years ago we actually were invited to speak in India and we were able to do a small concert also with some of the kids we have in India. So this was actually really fun. They were turning their last name into like a city planning project. So that works out really really well. We have been in business since 2012 and since then we actually won quite a bit of award. So we have been quite lucky to be able to be awarded for some of the work that we have done. The first topic today we wanted to bring your attention to is actually about farming. You know farming has been around for a really long time. We wanted to use technology as a way to bring farming to be more smart. We wanted to use it as a way to connect people city and nature. So we're going to begin with a really small project. This is a farm to table restaurant that we designed four years ago now. So in this restaurant they simply said that what if we were able to grow all the ingredients that we consume on site just locally within the restaurant. One of the constraints that they had with that like there's no sunlight in this restaurant. Basically it's just a giant like a shopping mall and in the middle of the mall there was no windows and no way to access sunlight. So we had to like use some of the latest technology that many of you have seen by now. It's just a hydroponic. We use hydroponic as an interior lighting with a very controlled climate. We have a very controlled lighting system and we were able to grow all the ingredients that they needed within the restaurant. So it works out really well. We won a lot of like award for it but most importantly we did a really interesting calculation. We understand that there are ways for us to actually turn farming in the middle of the city. In this case it was like middle of a shopping mall. It was also in a downtown area in Hong Kong. So it was actually very crowded with a lot of people around it but what we were able to achieve is that using technology we were still able to consume less water compared to traditional farming. We were able to use like a lot less fertilizer and the whole process is very transparent. You're able to see the whole species that we grow and then you're able to go into the farm, grab the species and then directly put it onto your meal. So that farm to table idea works out really really well from just using some technological devices. So just to actually give you a really quick update of what the farm looks like at the beginning. So at the beginning we didn't know too much about some of the idea behind. So how do we control the temperature? How do we control the light? In this case you see the blue light. Sometimes the blue, sometimes the purple. Using different light control we were able to stress the flower to bloom at a very specific time. And then we kind of like finally figured out everything so that they really could be controlled in a really nice way so that even without sunlight, without the natural environment, we were able to control both the humidity of water content and also the lighting within the system. So after that we were approached by the Hong Kong government. They liked what we did with the technology and then they told us that hey, what if you actually bring this idea into a much bigger project? So we were given a pretty big waterfront site to actually turn it into a giant urban farm. At the very beginning it came with a lot of challenges. Before I go into the technology there are some difficult challenges in terms of how we grow next to the ocean. As you can imagine when you're next to the ocean you get a lot of rain, wind, a lot of air. It would be very soft because it's next to the ocean. So it was kind of interesting as a site that we received. We didn't pick the site. It was given to us as a site to actually tackle this farming. So what we do is we go into the site and try to really understand what can we do with it in terms of the content. And then we come up with this idea of using different circle as a way to bring people together from the architecture point of view. And then we analyzed how actually people would be using the farm. We wanted to promise the community that 90% of this farm will be open and free of charge to everyone coming to the site. So only like 10% of it will be like closed at night, but most of it will be just open to the community. And then using hydroponic as a way to do farming will actually create a pretty interesting light show along the waterfront. So because of the light that we have seen earlier some of them could be blue, white, and purple. Depending on time of the day, that could become a very scientific light show that can actually animate the whole waterfront. So the whole site was actually quite large and very open. So we were able to adapt more than one type of farming technology. The hydroponic that you have seen earlier with the indoor greenhouse and then we have the traditional organic, but we make the organic kind of special by actually making it very inclusive. I'm going to talk about it next how we actually make it but we also have a last farming technology called aquaconic which is actually the technology that you put the fish as part of the feeding cycle for the plant. So all the buildings that we had on site were actually not just a regular building, they were actually part of the farming system. All the pavilion that you see are actually collecting water for the organic farms or the office building on top. Now we have solar panel to actually pump the electricity back into the greenhouse and the offices to be used for different farming purposes. And like I said, the challenges that we had, it was actually we were very, very close to the ocean. So we had to look at all kinds of species to really understand what kind of species and plant actually survived in this exotic and windy condition. And then we come up with a list of items that actually would do well in the wind and one of them could be quite surprising is that grapes, the regular grapes that we grow, they actually really, really like strong wind. So we will be growing some of the grapes that are here on site. And talking about inclusive like farming, this farm is a public farm that people could go to. So we will be actually using a lot of variation in height in order to let people who are on a wheelchair or who are elderly or who are like children to be able to enjoy farming in a very different experience. So some of them will be like stand up and they can still farm, not the very traditional way that you have seen farming. And now this is the light show that I've mentioned earlier. We, depending on the time of the day, that the plan will be exposed to different sunlight and that created quite an interesting light show that will be animating the whole waterfront during the evening time. Our building is actually for the greenhouse, it's a really, really nice like a glass structure that you will actually see a lot of plants inside. In some way, that structure right now has actually become the lung of the city, right? Because you can imagine there's so much oxygen being generated inside the building. In some way, when you go in, it's almost kind of like very refreshing, actually even a lot more refreshing than some of the cities in Hong Kong. So it becomes like a really, well, it would be a very nice experience for people to go in. And then the aquaponic pool with the ocean view, the reflection from the ocean and then all the fishes that you see from the aquaponic pond, everything actually makes a lot of sense when they're combined with the waterfront activity together. And obviously the community will be very welcome to join different night farming classes throughout the year. And just go through some of the images on the inside. So this is a type of industrial hydroponic farm that we will have inside the greenhouse. And you can kind of see that sometimes they have the blue light, sometimes the purple light. So that makes like the whole photographing quite interesting when you are actually inside. So while the building is still under construction, this is as of the site condition last week. So we visited the site, most of the building has been built already. We are waiting to put in all the like planting rack for the plant to be implemented. But you can already see that like some of the waterfront view is very connecting to the building. And then with different shading devices and air conditioner that we will use, we will just get the temperature at the right degree for this area. But the most importantly, like this building is actually quite interesting. You can kind of see like where my cursor is. This is quite, I would say, very high in a building. We were actually pretty worried at one point that we weren't allowed to operate on within this waterfront anymore. We were asked to actually make the building moveable. So you can actually see all the structure we put in here, actually all joined together by nothing both. So in the future when we were asked to relocate to a different area, we could. So this is some of the kind of like more structural element that we put into this farm to make it like more interesting and smart. And growing along the ocean will be challenging. And it should be quite interesting. Many people have told us that we can't do it. We won't be able to do it. It will be impossible to do it, to do farming if the ocean, right? But regardless, we went ahead to build all this structure, right? Including all the ring water connection that I told you, Sunwater solar panel that I told you earlier. And then so we opened phase one about a month ago. And then it was so surprising, like along the waterfront, there was so much like people coming to visit our farm. And then our, the most surprising factor, like I said at the beginning was because we picked a very interesting species that worked well under the wind so that like even next to the ocean, we got like really, really blooming area along the farm. We also were growing like strawberries just like as of last week as well. So it works out really, really well. And then one of the inclusive idea that we have mentioned earlier were exactly what I show in these images. We try not to just like, we wanted to include like elderly or people on wheelchairs like within part of this team. So we were actually elevating all this farming into a rack so that they could still stand up or they could sit down as they do farming. It's no longer the traditional way that you have to dig down and dive into the organic farm. So all in all, like all this idea will eventually benefit about like 360,000 people like along the waterfront. So it works out really great as a government project and then we are very proud of it. And then the same idea continued to grow for our team in terms of how we actually use farming to influence like sustainable buildings and cities. In this specific case, like some other restaurant has wanted to expand the farming to table idea with us. And then we are actually designing these devices. We have to design these cases for them to make it like kind of interesting, but at the same time it becomes like a really, really fun devices for people to really enjoy farming. And again, some of the species that grow would be a very exotic species. And so I think it works out really well. Another example, we wanted to bring farming not just like to the traditional part, right, but we wanted to bring farming like all the way to the street as well. We are like working with a downtown organization which are most of the chairman office called Walk DVLC. So Walk DVLC is advocating to actually turn some of the downtown area into a park. So we just like kind of pedestrianized the whole like downtown area. So our idea is to put a lot of local species, a lot of local plant to actually make the area into a very interesting farm. So the combination between downtown and farming was very, very attractive to a lot of people. And then we built a prototype to actually prove how it works. This is how some of the prototype actually looks like. It looks like again, we like circle as a geometry. So all the circle actually kind of combined together to form a really nice like contrast of our geometry, sitting area, shading area, a water area and all that. And then I'll be, I'm going to show you a really quick video. So in this video, we actually can't demonstrate how the pedestrianization could actually work with our idea of like farming. Basically, we again, it's a smart farm. So we don't want it to actually make the farm kind of like static and stable, right. So it has to still work with like the local people and the local car. So the car and all the trams and everything and the fire truck will still be able to work in here, right. So everything, all these little pieces that you saw with all the farm, they are actually just on wheels, right. So basically, everything is actually on wheels. When we actually wanted to let the fire trucks go through the site, we could actually move everything outside and then, but if not, this could become a really, really quick and easy way for us to actually petition analyze the downtown area in Hong Kong. So that was actually my first topic on smart farming. I'm going to now move on to talk about like some of the idea we have like for smart buildings. Smart buildings for us is sometimes it's about the technology. Sometimes it's about the design. Sometimes it's also about combining the both, like the both the design and the technology in order to make some great architecture. I'm going to go through one of the first projects in China that we have. This project is quite interesting. It's a historical building, the site or the building that you saw that used to be just like different type of like factory on site, different type of dormitory for the factory workers. So the owner for the site actually inherent the site and then wanted to turn it into a public park. So rather than just like doing a very traditional public park, we wanted to influence a different sustainable technology in here so that they could on one hand keep all the existing building and we use them in a different way as a museum. But at the same time, all the landscape, all the sustainable idea will make the old building into a more future proof like format so that they don't have to worry about it being like not energy efficient. So within the from a very master scale point of view, what we had at the very beginning where that we rely on some of the passive technology first, right? So this is one of the building that that they had. Some of it is still under construction, but the because of the existing building. But the landscape to begin with, like we had a really like a giant, almost like a giant pond in the middle of the site in order to microclimate all this building and factory around it. So with the pond on site actually in some way was quite amazing without even doing much about it. All the local temperature like around the building, the immediate local temperature immediately dropped and then it just helped to pull down the site in a such a simple low energy way. And after that, like all the local species in a frog, butterfly, actually they all kind of like come into our site because I guess basically there's no other park like around us. Everywhere is a factory, right? So this is the old factory that we have actually the old dormitory for the factory that we have preserved. And then the rest of the site was actually turned into like a park around it. And then like the low what we call the microclimate actually works out really well, you know, to contrast the both in terms of energy input and output. And on the site, there's a lot of other like features that we get to reuse. This was existing like archway into the site. And then we turn it into like kind of like a hidden door with a lot of plans around it. And then the existing building also like kind of implemented with museum quality, some of the overhanging structure helped to cool down the building a bit. And then we're using some of the local trees and turn it into a moment of a tree house. It works out really, really well for not only for adults but for a lot of kids. They had a lot of fun in this park to kind of climb up and down the tree house. And then I want to bring kind of a really interesting aspect into we love building greenhouse that you've seen in the last proposal, right? So we actually we do it again in China in this specific project. But in this case, the building and the structure are all existing. We did not design the structure, right? All the things that you saw are were actually different to us from the prior owner, right? So what we did with this structure with that, we turned it into a indoor classroom with a lot of plans inside. And if you can actually kind of see like you can kind of imagine this greenhouse is again could get pretty hot in this climate of China. And what we have is like this was actually doing earlier construction. What we had is that we had a lot of like kind of like sensors to kind of pick up the heat and the sunlight from the building. And what did that allow us to do is that we again using a different sensor and technology, we were able to control the interior temperature and the humidity of the building. We also have AC all kind of hidden below ground with some of the AC coming out. It was a pretty interesting and successful way to be able to turn farming into a classroom plus a greenhouse technology so that they know children and then all the teachers who will be teaching inside will be able to enjoy a very busy area without feeling too hot or too humid. All the photos that actually came out of the classroom actually works out really, really well. It just looks really lovely for a future of a classroom, right? I think having a class in one of this type of classroom will make heat probably more enjoy going to school a lot more. One project I wanted to share within this architectural smart building idea is another building in Shenzhen. We did not naturally do the overall design. We were more of the architect for the interior aspect. But the interior for these two high-rise, high-rise are really, really big. The exterior building was actually done by a famous architect Norman Foster from UK. We were more in charge of working with them on the interior aspect to work out some of the details of how we can actually make technology work for this building. The building owner is a very famous technology firm called DJI. They make a lot of artificial drone and all kinds of drone that you can imagine. Immediately, some of the first things they asked us to focus on with this technology is that they really wanted the idea of a well-being, the idea of exhibition, the idea of collaboration, all kind of implementing within the building design. Within the lobby, we all care a lot about collaboration and sustainability. We have a lot of different ways for people to meet and collaborate. Obviously, they love the metallic finishes because it just gives you a lot more easy way to clean the surfaces. On the inside, we have created a lot of parts for people to actually isolate themselves for meeting. But at the same time, the use of geometry kind of signifies different ways of inspiring the flying theme that they had from the company. Even within the toilet, we wanted to play with some of the display screens so that they make sure all the staff that they had are always connected to the world outside, even if they are just spending time in the toilet. In the exhibition area, we're all about sharing the information their colleagues had so that it becomes a giant collaboration center. Even they care about well-being for their staff. They provide a really state-of-the-art facility working out area for people to stay healthy and stay fit. Then, very lastly, they have this conference room all the way to the top of the building. They really love this idea of what they like. We can still use the conference room empty, but during when the conference room is not occupied, they love the idea of being able to... I mean, this is not a new technology. It's almost like a stage, say, theater setting. Basically, all the theater will actually bring out all the trees and allocate them to a different location of the site. So when they actually need it, don't need the conference room, when you look at the high-rise building from the outside, you almost have this really crazy animated sky garden. When they needed the animation of the conference room to be stopped, they can pull back all the trees and then begin the giant conference room. On the smart building aspect, I wanted to also bring your attention to another project in the United States. Actually, no. I should say this is a project in Canada. We work with our United States partner on this one. It's a city that we designed for 40,000 people. It's also designed for a technology firm. So we call it the Applesford Tech District. One of the first things that we did with technology was that in Canada, many people actually had the idea of what they wanted to do with city planning. But because this firm that we're working with, they're very global. So what we did is that rather than asking local Canadians what they wanted to see in the cities, we actually asked the whole world, if they were going to relocate themselves to Canada, what would they actually need in these new cities in order to be able to do that? So we conducted a giant global surface to actually let people see what are some of the criteria in the city planning that will actually make them move to a new city. And then the result is actually quite interesting. Many of them were very common. A lot of efficient transportation, a lot of destination to go to, a lot of walkable area. But the last two items were actually quite interesting. A lot of people actually wanted better food options, meaning like having access to better food, healthier food, will actually make them consider to relocate, which is actually, I found that to be quite surprising as a survey. So out of this survey, we also worked with the local counterpart to ask the local citizens what are some of the principles that they care about. They also give us another 11 design principles. So combining this 11 design principles plus the survey that we've done globally, we then come up with our own set of criteria to design this city plan. And then throughout the design process, we will go through some of this passive and active design. Because we are housing a lot of people, water will be quite difficult to get us enough water. To get enough water on site will be quite difficult, not only for the people, but also for the plan that we will have to sustain on site. So we come up with a series of technology to reduce water consumption and also collecting water throughout the entire site. With that said, it works out quite well if we were able to implement all this technology. And then at the same time, the water will become a really, really fantastic features to cool down the building again. It becomes another microclimate that we could enjoy. It could become a very fascinating water show during some of the day. And grey water, right? What if some of the water that we use up, how could we actually reduce the consumption of it so that we don't actually over stretch the sewage system from the city? And then many of them has to deal with the fixture that we pick. Many of them also separating dark water from grey water, right? The dark water is the one with all of our sewage. But the grey water is the one that we wash our hand with. So by separating all this system, we were able to recycle some of them to flush the toilet again. And that continued to reduce another 50% of water consumption. And so with that in mind, we were able to actually just make up just enough amount of water collection or water reduction. And then we were still able to sustain, as per our calculation, we were still able to sustain that many people within the city. And some of the more passive design strategy has to deal with ventilation and then a lot of green area to cool down the site. Again, we love all this kind of inner pond area, inner atrium. Everything is just connected to plant fresh air and ventilation. It allows the smaller building or big building to breathe with the surrounding. And then simply also another way to cool down the building without using too much AC as well. And our shared vehicle concept was actually quite important. You actually probably noticed we don't have any single parking lot or any single parking structure on site because we can't hide and hit them, everything on the ground. But in order to reduce the amount of construction we have on vehicle, we also will be implementing shared vehicle, shared car, and shared bicycle on site. Now some of this shared amenity help us to kind of look forward to the future of a sharing economy. And the simple concept of walking and to also reduce like being able to walk from the apartment building to work, everything kind of within happening eight minutes of walking distance is also quite crucial for us. So we make all this a walking distance or the walking trail along the site to be very interesting, intimate, but at the same time very family friendly. All the greenery that we have on site, just kind of above and beyond the amount of green ratio we have is over 60% of green ratio that we implemented on site. And then housing option, we also allow some of the different income group to be able to afford our site. And then all kind of like jobs or programs that we implemented with the local government so that they understand how many people would be working on site and then you know the meat specific meat with their economic indicator. And lastly, just when we were able to bring people together using food, going back to the survey that we did originally, we believe if we can use farming and food as a way to bring people together, people will just be very, very happy. And the local government just love this concept and this specific image a lot. And we are going ahead. This will be a, this whole city plan is actually a bit dramatic, meaning like a public process of 20 years from now to implement all 36 buildings. But we are in the very first phase one right now to begin our experiment. And to the last, very last topic of the today is on smart city. You have just seen some of the idea that we had from a small interior to a bigger architectural building. And then I'm going to bring to your attention the attention to the last project we have in China again. It's how we actually use automation to improve sustainability in the city. The automation has to kind of like related to the planning aspect, the technology aspect, and also the infrastructure aspect. I'm going to go pretty quickly on this one because there's a lot of data. It could be pretty intense, but I think the concept is easy to understand. The site is huge. You can kind of see the green area. It's about like 30 kilometer long. So it's a really, really huge like part of the cities that we are dealing with. It's basically one third of the whole sentence area. The site itself is just very, very long. It's in the middle of like a new airport designed by a lot of famous architects. You can kind of see a lot of famous building and famous like things are actually building up along the coastal line. And this will be a lot of like a big technology giant from China, like 10 cents all located within this area. And that was the reason why they got a lot of money. We built this entire time. But when we actually started to site a bit more, we noticed something really interesting. If you see from the left, the first image was 1999, right? When the whole city was actually all architecture area. And then back in 2000, about 20 years ago, the whole site is starting to become very, very like green, right? A lot of buildings kind of destroy all the farms that we used to have. And back in 2015, the whole site pretty much become like a giant, giant built infrastructure with almost like no trees or no greenery left. So we look at the site and we said that, no, this is no good because like we can't just keep building like the way they had from 1990 to 2015, there must be a smarter way to actually build at the same time, keep up with the green ratio and keep people healthy and keep the cities healthy. So our proposal is a way to actually almost like bring back the city in time, right? But like in a metaphoric way. But what if like 2045 could look more like 1990 with the amount of green ratio we have, but still keeping the footprint and all the gross for area that we have in 2015. So the idea could be actually very simple. It began with like the central highway that we had, right? In 2015, they built so many highways, so many cars and trucks everywhere. And our idea is to limit the use of our car and traffic and then try to reconnect the neighborhood because all this like 12 lane, 20 lane highway that they built literally divided the neighborhood into like multiple segments. And then there was no connection between the east and the west unless you cross over this like 20 lane highway. So the idea is was very simple. We have to first connect the neighborhood so people could be able to enjoy like the area that was actually taken by car. We have to be able to give back the area to the people. And in order to do that, we also have a bunch of like sustainable strategy. We very related to how we actually share the facility, right? From sharing a bicycle to a lot of sharing economy concept. And then we analyzed the whole side and how we could actually be starting to tackle some of this more critical area for focus. And within the area of focus, we think by breaking down the highway and implementing and connecting the neighborhood to the north and to the south, it will be a very significant way to bring back lives in the city so that it's not just all about the factory, the great color building, the country building, but it's about how the nature of people and city could reconnect to one another. And the sharing economy is also one way to actually reduce the amount of infrastructure we have to build. Because looking back at this plan, what we discovered is that every single one of this like building owner, they own more than one factory, they own more than one building, and many of them actually were actually empty. So they were just they just kind of build and build when they were in 1990s, right? And after the fact when they don't need to build, many of them actually become just abandoned or unused factory. So we believe that by being able to share some of this infrastructure that was already on site, they should be able to still not overbuild everything, but being able to reduce the amount of GFA we have on site. And so we also implemented all this like kind of sharing economy across this focus area. And from again, we love the idea of having a town in the middle of a city to promote this micro climate idea. This existing of Westerville was already existing by actually implementing more park and community centers that bridges around it. We believe more people will be able to enjoy the waterfront and get to use the waterfront as a way to cool down the city. And we have this shared idea of creating a smaller mobile park where people could be using the outdoor area to be discussing businesses with one another. Actually, this idea works really well during COVID time because now it's everywhere in China that people are using this like park to discuss our business during the, you know, in this post COVID area. And drone and all this latest technology was also part of this things that we discussed, having a light pole that actually become a drone charging station, some of the community center that really displayed and gather people. And then the highway did be elevated, right? Become almost a signature piece that kind of run rather than cutting through the building, but the neighborhood actually connected below it. And the multimodal transportation will also be very influential to make this city work, right? We previously depend on our car. China has been depending on a lot about like a vehicle. The vehicle are not the buses, right? They're just like privately owned car. So in order to make change in the city, we have to kind of think of a way to combine like a motorcycle, combine a bicycle, a subway, and all kind of like a shared vehicle together in a specific area. So along this highway that we have, we will be creating like this 15 minute zone. People will be able to like rent some of this bicycle or rent some of this side vehicle and then travel within the 15 minute distance along this entire part of like Shenzhen. And so in this section, you can kind of see like how multimodal transportation could actually kind of tie people together and also tie like more than one type of transportation together so that they could just pick the type of technology that really works for them to get from work to home or from home to work. And then it just looks really, really fun to be able to kind of walk around this like multimodal concept and they become like a kind of part of a infrastructure that I think many China cities should process. And from an aerial point of view, looking at this like central master plan really into the city in a very futuristic way. And we propose like using also autonomous vehicles so that the advantages of autonomous vehicle is that you're able to actually get a lot closer between car to car so that without actually increasing the length, because back then they have like 12 length, right? So now we're reducing the amount of length by using autonomous vehicle when the car were able to control a computer and then they get a lot closer. Using a less length, they can still pack the same amount of like a vehicle within the same area. So that works out quite well by using a technology to really tackle like traffic pollution. And you know, from inside the elevated highway, I think it would be also filled with light and a lot of light, really nice air and a lighting effect. And so the central hub become like a community center, people could be renting a bicycle and in this case, we'll be flying with some drone to deliver it. We believe like in China, one of the biggest problems is that they have way too many trucks. It's just way too many. Like when they go from one location to another location, just to deliver a very small item, they use a giant truck to deliver it. So what we discover is that and this is not something new, right? Has been going on in the US and has been going on in some part of other country as well. They're using drone to deliver smaller items also that they could reduce the amount of trucks that they have in the cities. So in this case, we also will be implementing a very similar idea to connect like short distance. This is not meant for the long distance, but for very short distance delivery, we think the truck could reduce significantly. And having like kind of like open factory that are toward the green sustainable economy and less on the pollution side, but more on to the creative innovation side that focus on the circular economy and believe the highway that we elevate that we think all kind of like business opportunity could be elevated. And at the end of the day, it's about this idea to connect like people again to water, to nature, to the cities. So all this like water management will again be controlled by a big data system that they have in China. So water is a very difficult topic to tackle in China due to very intense like they make a lot of sometimes a lot of like water from the industry that they have in China. So the sewage system that they have in the city are actually overcrowded all the time. So in order to tackle like the growth of the city without actually overstressed the local sewage system, we have to actually also while we're working on this plan, we have to think of a way to manage the water using big data. How can we reduce water like among different buildings and how can we actually like divert some of this water that were relatively clean to some of the artificial like basin and only divert some of the not so clean water toward the sewage treatment plan. And then some of the water like grey water could easily be going into a regional wetland. So at the end of the day, like the idea is to if you look at the temperature of the city, at the moment the temperature of the city is actually quite high. I mean all the rent are just kind of like indicating the city being very, very hot during the summer evening. Mostly because the roof of the building are all kind of like made of concrete. There's not a lot of trees on site, but that is eventually when we propose the right amount of trees, right amount of like water facility and then reducing the amount of traffic that they put into the highway. We believe like by 2045 we could really drastically reduce the temperature on site. And you know just coming very close to the end of the presentation, this is just a few more shots to really show you what some of this like diagram I've shown earlier and the the the graphics of it. Yeah. Yeah, so thank you. I talked really, really long. I just wanted to thank you and then bring your attention to one of the very last slide we have. So like I said at the very beginning we own and operate an NGO to teach our children about architecture. And then the NGO that we have now have a new book coming up is called Adventures in Architecture for Kids. We have about 30 exercises. This is a book that is on sale, but all the money that we make from it, we continue to go back to the NGO so that we can continue to use the money to help to teach more children about sustainable building and sustainable cities. So thank you. This is the end of my presentation. Well, for some fantastic points architect Rikichi and you spoke about you spoke about farming to connect people, city and nature. You spoke about technology for energy efficiency in buildings and you also spoke about a use of building automation for sustainability within build spaces. So a lot of things that yes we definitely would like to talk to you about we have with us Mr. Vivek Yadav. Now we have some questions for you Vivek. We spoke a lot of things you know even patrols we were able to talk about and the autonomous cars and probably we will be now integrating them within our buildings and cities. Very, very interesting and the outset architect Rikichi and I would like to say that it's a very revolutionary presentation of ideas that I've just seen and I'm really, really impressed and so would be all the viewers who are watching your presentation. There are some obvious questions which come to mind when you see such revolutionary ideas that you find that how implementable are these, what challenges you face when you conceive all this in theory on your designs in your computer and when you translate them on field into actual working environments, living environments and working environments be it you know offices or factories or the entire smart city that you showcased. One is that you can tell us at what implementation stage are these and second obvious question that I said was how practical it is to implement these design ideas what challenges you face both in men, material, you know skill availability and also how the authorities cooperate with you, how people cooperate with you who are living who maybe you know when you redesign the existing spaces they might also might be getting interested. So there are too many questions that I asked but I think I have asked everything which came to my mind while I saw your presentation. You can choose to answer whatever you want. Yeah well thank you thank you for the great questions. I can answer it in like three different scale I think what we do like you see in the beginning with the smaller interior project dealing with farming we have never done indoor farm before without sunlight so that was an experiment for us and we built it and then after we built it we saw something that didn't work right so we can't fix it as we can't see how we fine tune the system so that it could actually work out for a scale like that small for an interior project works out okay because the budget can still absorb all the changes we do after the facts and on a building scale I think having a really good engineers really helps architects like us to to make sure that all the math all the air conditioner that we propose all the mechanical aspect we propose could actually work within the budget but on a building scale what is actually quite interesting is that that interior project may take like four to five months to finish right so that we're able to experiment with it a lot quicker but on a building scale sometimes like just take two years just to design it and then you build it so by the time when the two years are done sometimes like you see something new because the technology is so fast by the time you're done designing sometimes like we change the system a bit for instance some of the farm that we have saw are built with the greenhouse right two years ago there was a air conditioner that we put in but by the time we were actually building it there are more sustainable air conditioner that we could end up using so we actually end up changing the system a bit and change some of the design to fit it so I think that kind of also happened with architecture but on a city planning like all the last last project that I've seen show you I think sometimes we can foresee everything we had the grand vision but the plan that we have shown you for the two Canadian project and the Chinese project they are on a scale of like 20 years right 20 years from now I can for sure tell you that everything that we imagine would be happening but I think as an architect one of the things that are crucial is that we planned it ahead so that there are flexibility for us to change it as we go into 10 years 15 years and 20 years and some of them it's about planning as well if we plan ahead enough for instance a autonomous vehicle a lot of it has to deal with like gbs a lot of it has to deal with like 5g technology a lot of it has to deal with like sensors right so being able to plan a building that doesn't actually interfere with the sensors even interfere with the signal I think that is something that we can do already today without knowing too much how it could actually work out in the cities so I think to answer your question the city scales is a bit about thinking ahead and knowing what we know but I can tell you for sure that 20 years from now everything that we have shown would be 100% implemented but we think we should be designing a system flexible enough to adapt these changes. Good thanks so on on the you know adaptability of people who get you know affected by you know redesign be it you know residential area or city I mean is that also something that you face challenges and you manage the timelines and you're able to implement what you can see. Yeah time is actually quite an interesting thing like India China is such a fast fast economy they give you very very little time to come up with a innovative solution so I but I don't know what it is I'm sure you the country of India are very used to it as well I think sometimes when you do so fast you do make mistake I do make mistake as well but but because we work so fast we see the mistake early and then we are able to change it compared to some of the I would say Western country they take a long time to think about the solution but because they haven't implemented it they waited a long long long time and then by the time they actually see it then the mistake was already too big so I felt like there are advantages of being able to work in Asia that especially in economy like India and China people are just so enthusiastic to new idea that they don't mind some of the earlier mistake they don't mind it and and I'm lucky to that the client are also having this kind of mind set. Well thanks Vicky. So over to you Sapna for your next question. Yeah thanks Vivek sharing your thoughts and you know putting those very valid queries we also have a lot of audience questions for architect Vicky Jan. Architect Vicky we have one question here where they say a role of architects and designers in creating a balance between technology design and sustainability. We have seen you know you have mentioned those projects where you have worked with all these three ingredients technology sustainability and you know the design so how the role of architects becomes very vital in this entire question. Oh I don't think we are the we don't innovate we don't come up with artificial intelligence technology right but we have to stay at the forefront of it by talking to a lot of like professional and expert so my background is also like I am the head of the American Institute of Architects so what we do is that every week we have like classes to learn from different experts just like you and you are conducting so many classes. For us I think it's important to continue this continue education so that we know from all this like top-end scientists we know from their latest invention and then what we should actually implement with it. We are I can't say that I am a scientist but there's so many like almond guard idea out there so I think like going to classes like yours or going to lectures and things like that keep us informed and then once we collect all this idea we just talk to them and we know them and then and we'll ask them whether all this idea are crazy and then you know there are so many crazy people out there that are willing to talk to us and to give us a feedback so that it works out well I mean you saw some of the global survey we had on the originally we didn't know how people will react to us like globally but when we send out the survey so many people respond to us and then we find the idea as we go. Okay fantastic so in fact you know we spoke about collaboration we also have a question they're asking because now architecture is not just about architecture it you know a lot of other things need to be like I mentioned drones and autonomous cars now becoming part of the architecture and city planning so collaboration and here also we are talking Vivek we are talking about collaboration between manufacturers architects and designers so collaboration among various streams various design streams technology streams manufacturers how do we build that? I think collaboration sometimes is about we as an architect has a better sense of like the overall scale the overall like discipline and how things should come together technology people in my opinion sometimes they are very focused on a specific field and they may not have like the overall good picture of how things could be put together so in as an architect as a planner I think we have to be able to collect some of the opinion everyone could be giving us and at the end of the day like I think our job is to be able to elevate this idea into a higher level and then show it to them again once they actually see the plan once they see the graphics they will be able to react to it and then they will tell us how what it could be changed and updated so that that's how we have been dealing with collaboration it would be very very difficult to ask like a drone expert to draw us a plan because that's not what they do right they focus on drone so sometimes we just kind of show them the plan how we could let the city work around and draw and then they will give us a specific guideline on how to do it and so far like this type of collaboration works out quite well it takes time at the end of the day but we enjoy the process okay great so as long as you know one enjoys the process I think we are all on the right track one last question because we are already running out of time is what is your dream project my dream project it's to be able to use more farming across the cities to if we can actually turn farming and integrate all the high rises all the mid-rise building with farming I think that would be my dream project we have been showing a lot of it but I don't think we do it big enough my dream project is to be able to actually do it even bigger so that like we can literally make enough food in the cities to sustain the whole city that would be really cool okay fantastic that that's a really great thought thank you Vicky Chan once again for that most informative and interesting talk and answering the audience questions and I'm sure our views at some very valuable and very you know groundbreaking takeaways from today's session thanks Vivek Yadav also for putting up those questions you know having a conversation with our speaker let me now bring in Mr. Remel Behl who's the enterprise business head for enterprise business at Havels India and he would like to express gratitude on behalf of Havels India and on behalf of Realty Plus for our speaker today let me give a brief introduction for Mr. Behl he's the head for enterprise business responsible for working with architects consultants interior designers industry government infrastructure and key commercial projects he's an electrical engineer with 26 years of experience working with large MNCs and has expertise in enterprise solutions business development strategy planning and sales Remel great to have you here and you have been listening to that entire presentation and conversation so what are your takeaways from today's session yeah thank you Sapna good afternoon all I think it was really a you know eye-opening presentation firstly on behalf of Havels it's an honor and privilege for me to propose a vote of thanks to our honored guest Vicky Chan from a wide obvious architects and let me start off by saying that you know your emphasis on the smart building and smart cities and creation of green technology is very very relevant in today's scenario see your waterfront project the farm project in Hong Kong I think and your thought you know on how to connect people with nature while utilizing technology you know is very very relevant today I think each one of your projects has been a unique experience and your smart city project at Bowan is very very impressive and path-breaking we at Havels are also committed to providing energy efficient electrical products and solutions for similar world-class projects which push the boundaries of architecture and technology and you know we also believe in a close working collaboration with our clients partners and stakeholders to achieve a successful and sustainable outcome so I mean all the topics which were covered were very futuristic very relevant and I would like to thank all the honorable participants who have taken time out for participating in this edX series and I would also like to thank the organizing team it was really a great presentation thank you so much and have a great day ahead. Thanks Mr. Bahir for expressing us and say thanks on behalf of Realty Plus and Havels India to our speaker of the day thanks Mr. Vivek Yadav as well for being part of this session and sharing your views most of all as Mr. Rehmal Bahir has also mentioned to our awesome audience for being here sharing their time and sending in their questions I once again thank our speaker of the day architect Vicky Chan for sharing his knowledge and with the design fraternity of India in spite and so thank you very much but do keep watching this space once again you know we will be bringing you yet another acclaimed design export soon on 29th April so till then take care and goodbye. Thank you, thank you everyone. Thank you everyone.