The development of environment-conscious buildings and the creation of green spaces by the public-private partnerships with utilization of the upper part of the sewer facility in the metropolis, Tokyo

摘要

Sewerage facilities are generally recognized as annoying institutions by residents, therefore, the Bureau of Sewerage made the upper part areas of the facilities covered and then utilized as parks or athletic fields, etc. In the neighboring area of the Shibaura Water Reclamation Center, it was expected to become a core of the area by comprehensive utilization in response to the local community's request because a large-scale redevelopment project had been advancing and the upper part area of the center had been valuable city space. This made us decide to perform a project to provide the construct environmental -friendly large-scale compound buildings and very large-scale green space to the upper part space of the newly rebuilt facility, which includes at the same time to solve the problem of rebuilding the obsolete facility; to provide the upper part space of the sewage facility; and to achieve the contribution to the town planning in the surrounding area of Shinagawa station.