tutor: Izaskun Chinchilla
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi
The theme of the developmental studio of the 3rd term of the master’s course focused in the issue of sustainability. The aim was to study daily activities and by embodying small changes in the daily life of the people how we can change reality. The final assignment was to produce a video that would embody our field research, the concept of the project and the design proposition.
After the research trip at Romania and the study of its capital Bucharest, each one of the students observed closely the daily life of the people of Romania and their physical environment. The thing that surprised me more was the fact that Bucharest had a very basic not to say insufficient waste infrastructure. So my concept for the studio project focused in the field of waste infrastructure.
Each household produces daily an amount of waste, paper, glass, plastic and metal, as well as wood, electrical devices, clothing and ceramics in a longer period of time. What if instead of dumping this waste all households could exchange their waste, recycle them and produce new products that could be used in daily bases. This small change in the way that the waste is treated can change the social and economical way of life of the people.
The module needed for the specific infrastructure network is composed by 8 units, a paper recycling unit, a glass recycling unit, a plastic recycling unit, a metal recycling unit, a wood recycling unit, an electrical device recycling unit, a clothing recycling unit and a ceramic recycling unit. The distance between the first 4 units is not more than 800-1000 meters and the time to go from one unit to the other is not exceeding 8-10 minutes on foot. The distance between the last 4 units is longer because wood, electrical devices, clothing and ceramic waste is not produced in daily bases in contradiction to paper, glass, plastic and metal waste. So the distance of the 4 last units is 2500-3000 meters and the time needed to go from one unit to the other is around 8-10 minutes by car. 5 elements, the household area, the waste storage area, the recycling area, the manufacturing area and the product storage area compose each unit. By multiplying the module one can have a different layer of interpreting the city of Bucharest in terms of waste infrastructure network.
Every unit is a kind of small “industry” having an input and an output. As input one can consider piles of garbage brought to the unit by garbage trucks and individual items brought by the people of the neighborhood. The output is recycled products that can be used in daily bases and customized products that can be ordered by every person around the world through the internet. Depending on the amount of waste gathered each day, recycled, manufactured, produced and sold each unit has a different function and nature each day.
Below you can find the youtube link of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Idnk0MaXsk
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