civic architecture: challenges and opportunities for the avoidance of urban waste

CIVIC ARCHITECTURE !Challenges and opportunities for the avoidance of urban waste

Saverio Massaro | PhD Candidate Architecture Theories and Design

Stai Tra, Marco Secondin, 2012

Leuven / León 27.09.2016

as spiders !!!!!! we co-shape and co-build !!!!!!! !! the ecosystem

Gregg Segal, 7 days of garbage, 2014

Plan C, Ellen Mc Arthur Foundation

from linear to circular

WALTER STAHEL Architect and industrial analyst !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!In 1976 he sketched in his research report to the European Commission The Potential for Substituting Manpower for Energy, co-authored with Genevieve Reday, the vision of an economy in loops (or circular economy). !Credited with having coined the expression Cradle to Cradle in the late 1970s, he worked at developing a “closed loop” approach to production processes. !Founded the Product Life Institute in Geneva in 1982.

Source: Cities for a small planet, Richard Rogers, 1997

THE CITY !!!!!! as !!!!!!!! !! A MINE

Terreform One, Rapid Re(f)use, New York City, 2010

Waste Management hierarchy. Source: www.envirocentre.ie

S, M, L, XL, OMA Rem Koolhaas & Bruce Mau, Taschen, 1998

Source: Rubbish in Resources Out, Dow Jones Architects and Arup, 2007

INTER-SCALAR

CIVIC ARCHITECTURE

upgrading “civil” civic design matter meta

Criteria !!!!

PROXIMITY !

INTEGRATION IN THE URBAN TISSUE !

OPENNESS TO THE CITY !

CIVIC SPACES PROVIDED !

SYSTEMIC LOOPS !

CIVIC PROCESSES

Nature-City, WORKac, 2012

INTEGRATION

PROXIMITY

Isseane Waste-to-energy plant - Syctom, Landowski Architecture, Issy les Moulineaux (Paris), 2008

INFRASTRUCTURAL SYNERGY

Source: http://transcontinental08.blogspot.com

SPATIAL CONDITIONS !!! ! of !!!!! A DECENTRALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE

Metabolon Bike Park, FSWLA Architect, Lidlar-Colonia (Germania), 2010

playground

Metabolon Bike Park, FSWLA Architect, Lidlar-Colonia (Germania), 2010

Metabolon Bike Park, FSWLA Architect, Lidlar-Colonia (Germania), 2010

Waste Treatment Plant, Israel Alba, Valencia, 2012

promenade

Waste Treatment Plant, Israel Alba, Valencia, 2012

Waste Treatment Plant, Israel Alba, Valencia, 2012, ph. Jesus Granada

Waste to energy Plant, Spitellau, Wien, 1971+1987

landmark

Waste to energy Plant, BIG, Amager Bakke - Copenaghen, in progress

landmark

Waste to energy Plant, BIG, Amager Bakke - Copenaghen, in progress

Waste to energy Plant, BIG, Amager Bakke - Copenaghen, in progress

Maag Recycling Center, OOS Architects, Winterthur (Svizzera), 2004

open borders

Maag Recycling Center, OOS Architects, Winterthur (Svizzera), 2004

Waste collection point, Rural Urban Framework, Ulanbataar (Mongolia), 2014

multitasking ramp

Waste collection point, Rural Urban Framework, Ulanbataar (Mongolia), 2014

Waste collection point, Rural Urban Framework, Ulanbataar (Mongolia), 2014

RETICULAR STRATEGIES !!!!! for !!!!!!!!!! COMMUNITY HUBS

R-Urban framework, Atelier d’Architecture Autogeree, Colombes (Paris), 2008

Agrocitè, Atelier d’Architecture Autogeree, Colombes (Paris), 2008

Energy system in Agrocitè, Atelier d’Architecture Autogeree, Colombes (Paris), 2008

Recyclab, Atelier d’Architecture Autogeree, Colombes (Paris), 2008

Credits: Ecosistema Urbano

WASTED Lab, CITIES Foundation, Amsterdam

URBAN METABOLISM !!!!!! & !!!!!!!! !! PUBLIC SPACE

#CollaborativeUrbanism #CivicDesign

#CollectiveIntelligence

REVERSE ECOLOGY

Albula, deltastudio, YAP MAXXI finalist, Rome, 2016

Albula, deltastudio, YAP MAXXI finalist, Rome, 2016

Albula, deltastudio, YAP MAXXI finalist, Rome, 2016

Albula, deltastudio, YAP MAXXI finalist, Rome, 2016

that’s all folks! !

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