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Rejected Landscapes: Redefining Garbage towards a new waste economy
Autor
Della Maggiora, Juan Pablo
Institución
Resumen
How will our future city model deal with waste? Landfills are not just topographies made out of trash. They are not just a pile of garbage. There is much more below them. A whole infrastruc ture of hot soil under surface produces an increment of temperature by the decomposition of the waste buried inside. At the same time, solar exposure heats different materials of the landfill surface. Despite the abjection a landfill produces, are we aware of the opportunities of this manmade landscape which is continously created with the waste that the urban form daily produces? By controlling the thermal conditions of waste materials instead of just buring them, the Greenhouse landscape turns into a hotspot that increases tem perature of urban infrastructures as landfills and surrounding landscapes of the contemporary city. This temperature change can produce a microclimate or heat island condition that makes different crops grow faster not just in the landfill, but also in surrounding lands, just like a greenhouse, enhancing the agricultural activ ity of the London Greenbelt. Understanding natural systems like climate conditions, and urban sys tems as waste management in the greenbelt, it is possible to develop a hybrid system that gives the greenbelt a programme that serves the city. By designing a generative landscape, it is possible to engage both waste industry and agricul tural activities. Furthermore, enhancing agriculture in the greenbelt with landfills modification will change the way people perceive landfills as rejected landscapes that nobody wants to live with.