“An answer to the problematic interplay of material flows in urban environments” – Holcim Awards Jury
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Project entry 2014 North America – Trash for Use: Municipal center for harvesting utility from waste, New York, NY, USA
A machine for turning trash to treasure: the CHUW vertically integrates waste processing and local manufacturing. From street level, compact electric trucks deposit collections four times a day. Pickers and conveyors bring the sorted waste to their respective levels for further sorting and baling. Each type of baled material then moves along the storage façade to a manufacturing floor where local fabricators have direct access to raw materials. Unused materials are sold throughout the city.
Greatly appreciated by the jury is the idea to conceive a new type of urban infrastructure that offers an answer to the problematic interplay of material flows in urban environments. In this regard, the project proposes to close a gap in the chain that reaches from material extraction and processing to consumption and disposal.
Last updated: June 30, 2014 Cambridge, MA, USA
Greatly appreciated by the jury is the idea to conceive a new type of urban infrastructure that offers an answer to the problematic interplay of material flows in urban environments. In this regard, the project proposes to close a gap in the chain that reaches from material extraction and processing to consumption and disposal. Applauded is the notion to propose an infrastructure building devised to mine the city, an important node within the metabolic system of a fragile urban ecology. Lastly, the jury commended the clarity and beauty of the drawings and models presented in the submission.