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[4]Group14 – Saturated Contours

Waste The water that defines and surrounds New York is polluted due to the City’s constant fluctuation in population and industry coupled with a dated and rigid wastewater infrasturcture. A striking...

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[4]Group13 – Freight Link

FREIGHT LINK is a “freight ferry” system proposal that will fuse NYC’s industrial network, allowing it to work more efficiently and stimulate economic growth by optimizing the waterway in New York...

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[4]Group12 – InBetween Boxes

In-between Box(es) is a series of resilient infrastructural and typological modifications in-between the cycle of consumption and the material recovery effort in the urban consumer environment....

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[4]Group11 – WEEL

‘Waste’ to ‘Waste- not’ through the changed perception of waste and effective waste management. Our Waste at Sunset Park: 15% of New York City’s Municipal soild waste. Non- organic Municipal Solid...

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[4]Group10 – Eat Sh*t

To improve the rural-urban nutrient cycling of food and sludge produced in New York state and New York City, the concept of Eat/Sh*t aims to strengthen the regional agricultural and municipal waste...

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[4]Group09 – Etabolism

[Show as slideshow] 12► WASTE Electronics are a commodity; we replace them as frequently as companies generate newer models.  Our attachment to them is temporary, because when they are done serving...

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[4]Group08 – Aqua+Scape

New York City evolved from a water city into a city that wastes its maritime infrastructure. This has not only led to the waste of a resource but a waste of its opportunities, a waste of connection,...

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[4]Group07 – Wasted Public Space Typology

The generic NYC’s Towers in the Park have an inefficient, non-active open public space that connects buildings. This physical environment of the tower in the park does not encourage the expression and...

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[4]Group06 – Industrial Resolution

Waste is not garbage. Waste is anything that is perceived to have unfulfilled potential and can include space, agency, labor, and infrastructure. This project engages the changing industrial sector in...

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[4]Group05 – WE toolbox

[Show as slideshow] 12► There are areas in every city that are left behind or sacri ced as the regional momentum of change pulls the current activity to another area. What happens to the human and...

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[4]Group04 – F.A.R.M.

Waste to us is the current food system. We analyzed the entire cycle from production to disposal, and found how it has negative environmental, social and economical impacts. We approach our studies at...

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[4]Group03 – Automotive Renewal

The concept of waste in Sunset Park we have defined by the inefficient use of post- industrial space. This is in part due to the physical, conditional and operational barriers that are characterized...

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[4]Group02 – In My Backyard New York

In order to change the negative perception linked to the Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) mentality, our intervention defines “the backyard” as the shed of our new system, which leverages public and private...

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[4]Group01 – Manufacturing Deconstruction

In Sunset Park, remnants remain from a now decaying manufacturing industry that once thrived during the forties and fifties.  Though still zoned for manufacturing many seek to change the waterfront...

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