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The Urban Space Station by Natalie Jeremijenko and Ángel Borrego The UrbanSpaceStation (USS) is a device designed to sequester the carbon dioxide emissions from buildings (which account for 80% Carbon Dioxide emissions in Manhattan and 35% of the national U.S. average) and return oxygen-enriched air to the building. Working in conjunction with greenroofing, this rooftop laboratory-greenhouse provides an intensive urban agriculture facility, coupling and reusing building waste streams locally— CO2, grey water, cellulose and organic matter— to provide significant nutritional resources and promote local urban biodiversity. Called the USS because it appropriates materials, power generation and closed system engineering of space stations to significantly increase the environmental performance of urban buildings, it creates a mutualistic relationship that can service a 20:1 building volume in air exchange (that is, the USS is scaled to approximately 1/20th the size of the building it is rests on and plugs into). The structure and ETFE membrane are designed to be assembled and deployed as a barn raising process, rather than by traditional construction; pre-engineered to perform in 100-year storm events; and requires no substantial structural modification of support building.
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