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Columbia GSAPP
Critic: Tei Carpenter
Partner: Gin Jin
Spring 2018
Industrial parks provide an essential infrastructure for the city. It is where a city refines and processes raw material to provide energy, construction materials, and consumable products. As our economy currently requires this process to occur, areas of concentrated industry are indispensable for a functioning society.
Unfortunately, these spaces necessarily produce harmful ecological byproducts. On one hand, this is a result of of inefficient refinement processes and failures in the management of waste; on the other, the normative industrial paradigm is a linear, consumer-centric model where waste is not afforded value, so it is treated apathetically. It is often “disposed of” into the water or relocated to an environment on the peripheries of urban life, but it never actually disappears, it is just stored out of sight. Accordingly, industrial parks become spaces of waste as much as production, allocated to specific urban zones already scarred by an entire history of local industry.
Columbia GSAPP
Critic: Tei Carpenter
Partner: Gin Jin
Spring 2018
Industrial parks provide an essential infrastructure for the city. It is where a city refines and processes raw material to provide energy, construction materials, and consumable products. As our economy currently requires this process to occur, areas of concentrated industry are indispensable for a functioning society.
Unfortunately, these spaces necessarily produce harmful ecological byproducts. On one hand, this is a result of of inefficient refinement processes and failures in the management of waste; on the other, the normative industrial paradigm is a linear, consumer-centric model where waste is not afforded value, so it is treated apathetically. It is often “disposed of” into the water or relocated to an environment on the peripheries of urban life, but it never actually disappears, it is just stored out of sight. Accordingly, industrial parks become spaces of waste as much as production, allocated to specific urban zones already scarred by an entire history of local industry.
Formally, these spaces become expressions of function - clusters of independent processes organized to promote individual efficiencies within this linear mode. They are areas where the public choosesto avoid or does not even know exists. The industrial park is a spatial byproduct of this linear industrial narrative, and industry is seen as one of the primary causes of theecological damage humans have caused to the planet.
At its core, this proposal approaches post-industrial remediation through a radically different perspective. Rather than viewing human waste as matter that must be disposed in a landfill or waterway, we see it as a raw material to be extracted, processed, and transformed for new performativity. In essence, through the rematerialization of this waste, we create an active and operational storage for waste and by appropriating aspects of an industrial process, we have created a space for a new type of nature, one mediated through an industry and expressive of its material origins. By creating a new “industrial park,” we aim to push the conventional park typology of public space, as well as the public relationship with waste, industrial infrastructure, and the environment.
