The Architecture of Waste

September 29, 2015 11:45 AM

The Missing Link: Architecture and Waste Management

The Architecture of Waste, "usually defined as unwanted or useless material, which is the product of a linear utilization process."

Landscape Architecture for a Changing World
Freshkills Park: Once a Landfill, Now a Lush Landscape
Vertical Landfill for Metropolises
From Garbage to Glass: Mining Landfills for New Materials

Sunset Park Materials Recycling Facility / Selldorf Architects aka Sims Municipal Recycling Facility

The world's most beautiful wastewater treatment plant
Water treatment facility by Skylab Architecture features a roof of grass-covered fins

posted by the man of twists and turns (5 comments total)

Architecture in theory: designing and building better living spaces for all.

Architecture in practice: designing and building pretty places for rich people to hang out in.

So it is really surprising that there isn't much of an architecture of waste?
posted by TheyCallItPeace at 12:18 PM on September 29, 2015 [5 favorites]

Flagged for later reading, thanks!
posted by Theta States at 12:26 PM on September 29, 2015

Recent experiments in hybrid architecture—from ski slopes on top of waste incinerators in Copenhagen

Oh, that's what the thing in the center of the second image in the first link must be. I was wondering why the hell a building would be shaped like that.
posted by XMLicious at 4:38 PM on September 29, 2015

US puts more trash in landfills than the EPA knew about
With more trash comes more methane emissions.
posted by XMLicious at 8:02 PM on September 29, 2015

I was wondering why the hell a building would be shaped like that.

For reasons.
posted by flabdablet at 4:35 AM on September 30, 2015 [1 favorite]