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
Hong Kong
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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
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-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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RECYCLING FACILITY
19 50 LANDFILL
Pier Growth & Expansion
RAW MATERIALS
MANUFACTURED GOODS
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RECYCLING FACILITY CONSUMPTION
REPURPOSE
REUSE ∞
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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
7854 mi
DSNY (YEAR 2013-14)
LANDFILL INCINERATOR
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Waterfront Connection
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WATERFRONT CYCLING PATH DEWITT CLINTON PARK CENTRAL PARK
PIER 81
RESTAURANT
PIER 84
RETAIL
PIER 86
MUSEUM
PIER 88
OFFICE
PIER 90
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HRP BOATHOUSE
PIER 97
HUDSON RIVER PARK
PIER 99
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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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recycle
re-process
BACK INTO HOUSEHOLD
store
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MATERIALS FERTILIZER
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ASH | SMOG
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7%
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The Afterlife Of Trash
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COLLECTION SORT | PURIFY | COMPRESS
-individual activity, immediate action [kitchen]
DOWNCYCLED
GAS | HEAT | ELECTRICTY
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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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Site Plan, Repurposed Pier of New York City
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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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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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