Two weeks charette- needs different formal proposals, a bit more bataille/delicatessent/brazil and less ipod-esque articulation. It hasn\'t quite hit the visual echo of 50-60s dystopianism I wanted but the data and mechanisms are a lovely start to imagining a gothic, grotesque, and excessive economy to urban agriculture... an ode to the sur-rational \'jungles\' repressed by bourgeois sustainability...
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tourism
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* illegal dumping disputes
commerical disposal
effected by intercepts
deposit locations
" transfer stations
typical trade
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" sorting
containerisation
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minor municipal yards *
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11,500 residents/sq mile x ( tons/yr/hs )
=
each =
another sort of urban
100,000
households
3% 38% 15% 8% 36%
+
JUNK
space
1,500,000people
584,000households
~5,000/sq mile
electronics organics plastics & glass
construction
(wood, metal scrap)
paper
packaging
individual
average
by weight
x( )
suburban
tons/yr/hs
=( lb/day/person )
domesticating landfills
overall composition
rubbish as resource:
URBAN INTERCEPTS DIVERT TRASH city target
tonnage, short circuiting the transit cost of landfills, the 25% recycled
dioxins of incineration, the smug pastoral repressions of
cap-remediation schemes, and appropriating the current
lull in recession shipping/recycling trade. In their place
are pigs- an open, accessible answer to ‘where does it go?’ current
With sorted streams, their speedy organic conversions of 10% recycled
waste could eliminate up to half of Philadelphia’s total
trash.
Not a final nor finite (volumetric) solution, ‘living high on
the hog’ gives citizens, not just sanitation workers, the 2.0
PIGCITY x 10,000 tons/yr 730,000 tons annual
opportunity to corporeally re-engage their consumption
habits while offering phased, dispersed deployments for 47% sort systems interception
flexibility (and 4-H competitions). Registration #: P1154 340,000 tons annual
2. + +
alternative
PIGGERY PROCESSING
methane retrofit
o2
PIGCITY
PIGGERY PRODUCTS
anaerobic
+ ret
rof
it biogas
tric
e lec
shelter-
2.0
surrational porkbarrel architecture for bataille shade & heat
park program internal
shredder
shredded paper nesting
wetlands catfish
+
+
rain capture
arrayed
centralized feeders
explored cleaning
clearance
+ + distributed water
o2
+
wandering
parcels contiguous compost crops greenhouse
pasteurized
for safety
run-off
existing edge in-fill
840 acres
filtration
1180 MW
584 acres
860 MW
daily pulped consumption = 456 acres
670 MW
26
328 acres
482 MW
200 acres
households/pig circuits combo
168 acres
300 MW
(70% urban sites, 30% CSA contracts)
136 acres
250 MW
70 acres
@ 2 acre prototypes
60 starter pigs 10 acres
36 acres
35-50 1 yr 2 yr 3 yr 4 yr 5 yr 6 yr
critical mass
pigs/ acre at community sites FUNDING
Fair Food Program
P.I.G. Alliance
White Dog Cafe
AGROecosystems
Research Grants
Resource Enhance.
Research Grants
SARE
PASA Farmers Union
10% AEC
Contracts
$5 million
Tax Credit
general use of alt. energy & agr. funding
FULL DEPLOYMENT
50% AEC
Contracts
PECO gas & electric
PA Alt. Energy Ini.
contract organic
inputs possible
PECO gas & electric
Dept of Defense
NJ/DEL Partnerships
etc
daily collection boundaries
local alliances
state
national methane
commercial to electric
60% sale
14 200 MW
annual
acres dispersed = 200 Alternate Energy Credits
possibilities & pork 8
6 months av
PIGCITY2.0 litters
urban abattoir
maturity
reworks MVRDV’s tower piggery prototypes. Breaking 11 months
with their crisp self-sufficiency and green rhetoric,
these porker insertions thrive in the midst of the weened
contemporary food/packaging-web and post-industrial
4 months
milieu.* From the excessive gifts of garbage,
externalities become economic opportunities:
butchers-wholesale
slaughter
organic trash as original feed, 3-6 years
scrap paper as nesting materials/fiber,
+
manure as electric/fertilizer/feed,
retired mechanism as meat,
palpable consumption feedback, and
grotesque-picturesque programming opportunities.
1500 75% survival @ 6 years
phasing piggeries
* suggested by Melosi, Garbage in the Cities. p40
GENERATIONAL SLAUGHTER or REGIONAL EXPANSION
3. south philly in-fill
PIGCITY
piglet parklette
water_ filtered roof top/highway collection
paper/packaging waste
= straw bedding
inputs daily organic scraps deposits
ambient shade
adult clusters
birthing
weening clusters
shelters, distributed water
pig parcels drain toward loader lanes, anaerobic chambers
loader cleaning lanes
aerobic compost barrels
anaerobic digestion
chambers = biogas
pig-grate covered wetland
waste uptake channels/pre-chambers
pig containment
community garden plots
aerobic compost barrels
aerobic distributed
BETTER A PIGSTY...
biogas heat: seasonal greenhouses than vacant. Partially abandoned
biogas heat: shelters
blocks are reclaimed for community
agriculture. Their shredded paper
performs as bedding while organic
biogas shredders: wastes power the pigs (and a series of
food, paper
anaerobic digestors). Small, grated
wetlands and embedded, rolling
compost barrels act as pig barriers
biogas heat: 4H meeting room
while allowing maintanence equip-
biogas generators: electric sell-back composite ment, workers, and 4H pig ‘owners’
easy access. Biogas heat and electric
anaerobic distributed biogas heat: generation extend the growing
unsalted snow-melt pad season and enable year-round activity
(alternately let refreeze for skating)
4. fairmont fair flashback
PIGCITY
pig piers & pavilions
water_ filtered living machine/zoo sewage
paper waste =
straw bedding
inputs
daily organic scraps deposits
shelters + cover, distributed water
birthing
weening clusters
adult clusters
grazing corps
drains toward catfish pond
pig parcels
post-anaerobic living machine
tropical plantings
1 acre excerpt
solids consumption
channel catfish
anaerobic digestion
chambers = biogas
waste uptake
wetland aerobic transition
channel catfish = spawning
stocking
public fishing
community piers
direct fish feeding
fauna consumption
A HISTORY OF...
of solid waste
+ 3 lb
organic shred
=
biotic introductions make Fairmont’s pavilions
living machine
infamous. Pigs and their cultivated eco-
tropical showcase the other, other white meat
communities serve as a lovely looking-glass to
biogas heat
these anguished Victorian scenes of Kudzu and stream stocking
trees of Heaven, genealogies of ecologies on corn-bread fry
show. Here pigs swim and occasionally graze, cajun stews
biogas generators: electric sell-back
composite supplementing their organic-urban diet. Their picnic grillin’
biogas shredders: solid wastes feed frying/stocking fish, while a
food, paper
lush living machine digests remainders. A pier,
a glass pavilion . . . while not quite Brighton,
flora consumption + waste management certainly seems to be a
stroll in the park.