Cornell University Thesis (M.Arch)

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NYC’S INVISIBLE ROOMMATE Rethinking the Infrastructure of Waste Disposal in Residential Housing The Piers, New York City Independent Design Thesis, Studio ARCH Design VII, 2017 Advisors: Caroline O’Donnell and Ryan Ludwig

The genesis of all trash begins with mankind. We live. We create. We consume. Our consumption depletes resources and our production generates trash—trash that continues to roam the planet after we depart from it. There is architecture for human inhabitants, but no suitable space for the inhabitant’s invisible roommate: waste. Waste is not an entity that we should continue to neglect. It is not a roommate that can be unwanted or disregarded. Waste deserves a habitat—one of care, awareness, and sensibility.

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NYC SOLID MUNICIPAL WASTE COLLECTION HISTORY

RAGPICKERS

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ORGANIC DISCARDS -FOOD SCRAPS -HUMAN WASTES -MANURE

ALL OTHER 36%

COMPOSITION OF RESIDENTIAL CURBSIDE WASTE

River Connection

ORGANIC DISCARDS

China

7508 mi India

5424 mi Ivory Coast Nigeria

-KITCHEN SLOP -STREET SWEEPING -HOUSEHOLD WASTE -ASH

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non-recyclable waste

waste-to-energy plant

Landfill Precedents 1. Fresh Kills | converted park

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2. Seneca Meadows | active landfill 3. Love Canal | closed landfill 4. Sunset Park| converted recycling facility

handling & recovery facilities

METHOD OF DISPOSAL

INDUSTRIALIZED GOODS

14 M TONS

-WEAPONS -UNIFORMS -COAL

PIER CONNECTION [GROWTH & EXPANSION]

waste transfer station

MASS PRODUCED “DISPOSABLE” GOODS -PAPER -PLASTIC -PACKAGING MATERIALS

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$2.4 BILLION visibility:

TOTAL COST FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT [$826M FOR COLLECTION, $432M FOR DISPOSAL $411M ON RECYCLING]

RENEWED ENERGY

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19 50 LANDFILL

Pier Growth & Expansion

RAW MATERIALS

MANUFACTURED GOODS

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RECYCLING FACILITY CONSUMPTION

REPURPOSE

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Trash is a visible manifestation of a series of networks and architectural conditions. The thesis exposes this in a new housing typology for New York City by rethinking spaces for trash, such as the trash chute and garbage can, into architectural elements such as the terrace, balcony, community garden and egress stair. Waste will become a valuable resource where compost becomes food, waste water becomes potable water, combustibles create heat and energy for the home, and non-combustibles give extra land for the residential property. Converting the current “out-of-sight and out-of-mind” trash network into a local and integral system will encourage physical awareness of waste production and a social change in people’s everyday coexistence with trash.

Park Connection

ANNUAL TONS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE

quantity of exported trash (from the U.S)

Staten Island

LANDFILL 82.3%

visibility:

recyclable waste [paper|metal|glass|plastic]

landfill 4

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PARK CONNECTION

WASTE-T0ENERGY 17.5%

DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION [DSNY]

4049 mi

COMPOSTED 0.2%

CIVIL WAR

4751 mi

YARD WASTE 6%

visibility:

8040 mi New York

RIVER CONNECTION

SOILED PAPER 7%

FOOD SCRAPS 18%

RECYCLABLE 33%

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7140 mi

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WATERFRONT PLAN CONNECTION

Waterfront Connection

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WATERFRONT CYCLING PATH DEWITT CLINTON PARK CENTRAL PARK

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RESTAURANT

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TRASH ROUTE & ENERGY CONSUMPTION

1 69%

HOUSEHOLD CURB-SIDE COLLECTION TRANSFER STATION

50 years RECYCLYING FACILITY (MATERIALS)

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COMPOSTING FACILITY (FERTILIZER & GAS)

recycle

re-process

BACK INTO HOUSEHOLD

store

80%

MATERIALS FERTILIZER

15%

ASH | SMOG

BURN

CONTAMINATED

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7%

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PRODUCTION

The Afterlife Of Trash

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COLLECTION SORT | PURIFY | COMPRESS

-individual activity, immediate action [kitchen]

DOWNCYCLED

GAS | HEAT | ELECTRICTY

INCINERATOR (ENERGY)

COMPOSTING

LANDFILL

LANDFILL (NO RETURN)

RECYCLE

MUNICIPAL WASTE

MATERIALS SOIL | WATER | METHAN GAS

CONSUMPTION

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TRANSPORT | STORE

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PROCESS | RETRIEVE VALUE

-individual & machine-operated [trash chutes]

-machine-operated, at capacity [basement]


The design is typology for a new type of housing, a home that allows an inhabitant to coexist with his/her waste as a resource. The visibility of waste will be an integral component to everyday living, present inside the home and displayed publicly on the building’s facade. Individual units will accommodate a variety of family types, consisting of a standardized living and dining area, as well as an expanded kitchen space for waste sorting, purification, compression, and collection.

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0 ft

Site Plan, Repurposed Pier of New York City

25 ft

Sample Plan of One Apartment Configuration


1. Waste Departs Via Service Barge Arrives

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initial storage of food scraps via compost container [DECOMPOSE]

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LOOK! MORE WASTE DELIVERY FROM THE SERVICE BARGE! YAY! MORE RESOURCES

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compost waste is made of green and brown material with water that will be mechanically churned weekly, for 6 months [MATURE]

3 matured compost will be used as fertilizer in individual balconies, terraces, and communal food gardens [DISTRIBUTE]

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recyclables will be sorted, purified, deodorized in the ktichen

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recyclables will be transported via the drop columns inside every home

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conveyor belt will take the recyclable waste to the material recovery center for education and recycling purposes


3. Waste is useless resource

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1 graywater collection system takes in rainwater and distributes it to individual and communal gardens as well as to the compost chutes making fertilizer

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WHEEE, WHAT A NICE DAY

2 water filtration system takes in sewage sludge and filters it to give back potable water to the sinks and shower

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3 water filtration system occurs in the basement


1 combustibles cover a wide range of waste and need to undergo a process of sorting, purification / deodorization and temporary storage in the enlarged kitchen space

2 the storage of combustibles inside the house can be disposed anytime via the chutes connected to the outside V-brace structure.

3 incineration of the combustibles occur in the basement, where waste is converted to energy and returned as radiant heating and electricity for the units

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TRASH IS NOT BAD. TRASH = ENERGY, FOOD, AND LAND BEHOLD, THE TRASH-FILLED YET WASTE-FREE NEW AGE OF LIVING!

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