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Lion RUST, Xavier WALTER

Strasbourg, France

Lion Rust and Xavier Walter are two young german and french architects, grown up in the east of France. After several internships fulfilled in Berlin and Lausanne, the two followed a franco-german double cursus held between the ENSA Strasbourg and the KIT Karlsruhe. They passed their diploma in September 2020 with the jury's felicitations under the direction of Dominique Coulon (coulon & associés, Strasbourg) and Simon Hartmann (HHF, Basel).

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The projects deals with the symbiotic interdependance of large recycling facilities and public programs to garantee their inclusion in Manhattan’s dense urban fabric through existing infrastructures.

# Infrastructure

Systemic changes

The project emits the hypothesis, that Manhattan constitutes an urban fabric, which is developed and diverse enough, that it is able to overcome and avoid the export of its waste by integrating its treatment in its proper urban fabric.
The project is developed in three entities, three buildings becoming different recycling sites deeply integrated in Manhattan’s urban fabric. The choice of three relies on the three most produced garbage types, which are the non recyclable waste, plastic waste, and paper rejects.
Each type of waste has its proper way of conveyance based on existing structures as the subway or buses in their off-peak hours, leading to a particular recycling site. Each recycling site functions as an urban hybrid, linking recycling programs to public programs in a symbiotic way. The product issued out of the recycling process is immediately consumed or redistributed onsite.

Plastic recycling plant, section

Non Recyclable waste plant, perspective of the from the machine's heat excesses warmed tropical garden

Non Recyclable waste plant, section

Paper recycling plant, plan 2nd level

The projects deals with the symbiotic interdependance of large recycling facilities and public programs to garantee their inclusion in Manhattan’s dense urban fabric through existing infrastructures.

# Infrastructure

Systemic changes

The project emits the hypothesis, that Manhattan constitutes an urban fabric, which is developed and diverse enough, that it is able to overcome and avoid the export of its waste by integrating its treatment in its proper urban fabric.
The project is developed in three entities, three buildings becoming different recycling sites deeply integrated in Manhattan’s urban fabric. The choice of three relies on the three most produced garbage types, which are the non recyclable waste, plastic waste, and paper rejects.
Each type of waste has its proper way of conveyance based on existing structures as the subway or buses in their off-peak hours, leading to a particular recycling site. Each recycling site functions as an urban hybrid, linking recycling programs to public programs in a symbiotic way. The product issued out of the recycling process is immediately consumed or redistributed onsite.

Plastic recycling plant, section

Non Recyclable waste plant, perspective of the from the machine's heat excesses warmed tropical garden

Non Recyclable waste plant, section

Paper recycling plant, plan 2nd level

Idea by

Lion RUST, Xavier WALTER

Strasbourg

France

Lion Rust and Xavier Walter are two young german and french architects, grown up in the east of France. After several internships fulfilled in Berlin and Lausanne, the two followed a franco-german double cursus held between the ENSA Strasbourg and the KIT Karlsruhe. They passed their diploma in September 2020 with the jury's felicitations under the direction of Dominique Coulon (coulon & associés, Strasbourg) and Simon Hartmann (HHF, Basel).

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