The countryside is now the frontline of transformation. A world formerly dictated by the seasons and the organisation of agriculture is now a toxic mix of genetic experiment, science, industrial nostalgia, seasonal immigration, territorial buying spress, massive subsidies, incidental inhabitation, tax incentives investment, political turmoil.
- Rem Koolhas
[ L i q u i d N a t u r e s ] MLArch Diploma Spring 2012. The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Simrishamn Regional Algae Farm by ecoLogicStudio
ecoLogicStudio has been completing phase1 of Simrishamn Regional Algae Farm, for the Osterlen region on the Swedish Baltic Sea. The project has been commissioned by the Simrishamn Municipality and it is currently exhibited to the public in the local Marine Centrum.
A decaying fishing industry in the Baltic sea and an ageing local polupation call for the introduction of a new type of economic and urban system; the farming of algae has been adopted by ecoLogicStudio as a medium to propose and incubate such new model.The design approach allows for top down strategies and investments, for the production of biofuelds and other renewable energies, and bottom up initiatives as well as know-how, of the local farmers and fisherman, to be combined in a plan of co-action.
The plan starts from the analysis of the existing environmental and social
potential of the local landscape and illustrates emergent correlations to algae farming. Such hybrid conditions are than articulated in space by proposing new architectural prototypes to be developed across the Osterlen region.
source:http://www.ecologicstudio.com/v2/project.php?idcat=3&idsubcat=59&idproj=110
Monday, March 19, 2012
Aquaculture Seascape Park by Moira Wilson
Aquaculture Seascape re-envisions a new, inclusive culture of aquatic food production. An experimental production park typology is generated through a synthesis of function (food production, data collection, environmental monitoring and restoration, the public park system) and process-based design. Tidal pool nurseries and polyculture production gardens are designed to delight the public. They also provide the space for commercial research to develop healthy, economically viable food production. The park’s mobile infrastructure sets up the conditions for detailed mapping of oceanic territory. This new kind of public space acts as an interface to mediate the sometimes complementary, but often conflicting points of view among private industry, public interest groups, community members, researchers, tourism, and government in relation to aquatic food production.
Moira Wilson is a Toronto-based designer interested in green infrastructure projects and process-based design. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto.
Source: BRACKET [on farming], http://brkt.org/index.php/soft/entry/aquaculture_seascape_park
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Burbank Water and Power EcoCampus by AHBE Landscape Architects
When Burbank Water and Power built an award-winning electric power plant in 2005, it also replaced several existing substations located on the campus. In restoring the old substation sites, BWP saw an opportunity to achieve something greater. Los Angeles based landscape architecture firm AHBE Landscape Architects was commissioned to create an ambitious master plan for an EcoCampus that focused on transforming the grounds from an aging industrial site into a regenerative green space.
Hydroelectric Power Plant in Kempton Germany by Becker Architekten
source:http://www.ccaa.com.au/sub/cplusa/articles/issue/16/hydro-electric-power-station/
Chongqing Iron & Steel GasSteam Combined Cycle Power Plant
CECEP’s GCL Engineering Company, Science and Technology Company and Industrial Energy Conservation Company are capable of providing comprehensive energy conservation and environmental protection solutions for energyconsuming enterprises to improve the level of energy efficiency, mainly through energy saving diagnosis and assessment, technology reform, operation and fundraising based on the integration of domestic and international advanced technologies. These subsidiary companies have successfully developed a number of reuse projects of waste pressure, waste heat and waste gas for Larfage Cement Ltd., Chongqing Iron & Steel Group, Tianjin Iron & Steel Group, Beijing Shuangshan Cement Plant and Taiyuan Chemical Ltd. The investment for each of the contracted energy management projects implemented by enterprises in the sectors of building material, metallurgy, chemical engineering and coke making has exceeded RMB0.1 billion. In addition, the total investment in the Project of Chongqing Iron & Steel GasSteam Combined Cycle Power Plant and Waste Heat Recovery Coke Dry Quenching Power Generation conducted by GCL Engineering Company is about RMB2.2 billion, with the total installed capacity of 355,000KW for sending 1.85bn KWh into the grid annually, capable of meeting 75% of the power demand by production lines in the new Plant, where 750,000 tonnes of standard coal is saved each year and the emission of CO2 is reduced by 1,980,000T. At present time, CECEP has been implementing 11 energy management projects for waste heat and waste gas use with the contracted investment reaching RMB1.164 billion.
source:http://www.cecep.cn/g492.aspx
Teeside Power Station by Heatherwick Studio
Value: £150m
Client: Bio Energy Investments Ltd
Date: Ongoing
“With a rising global population and increasing political focus on the future of power generation, the task of designing a 49 mega-watt, bio-mass fuelled power station in Stockton-On-Tees is an interesting design challenge.The site at Clarence Works is on the banks of the river Tees and is classified as brownfield, being both post-industrial and ecologically sparse. On the opposite bank is Middlehaven, a major new development of 3000 new homes.
The studio’s approach has been to treat the power station as an opportunity to make a positive architectural and cultural contribution to the area. Rather than placing yet another large industrial building onto this flat landscape, the studio’s proposal is integrated into it. By reconfiguring the arrangement of the energy generation equipment permitting it to be housed within an efficient single volume, the scheme occupies only a third of the site and provides four hectares of indigenous grasslands, which are literally pulled up the façade.
The scheme includes the creation of a publicly accessible park, education facility and events venue. The riverside site enables the fuel to be delivered by ship, achieving a further reduction in carbon emissions compared to road transport. The parabolic hyperboloid form is clad with a proprietary panelised façade system supported on a steel frame, which is structurally very efficient as it also carries the load of the internal equipment, effectively making it a lean-to.”
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