Waste Generation is one of the biggest and urgent environmental problems that cities are facing nowadays, that added to the mega-consume and inadequate final disposition turn these areas into latent menaces for inhabitants who live and surround these big Dump-sites opencast; setting informal recycling activities, breeding of animals and even residential activities threatening the public health and landscape image. Arequipa does not escape to this reality, claiming for an urgent urban & architectural systemic, holistic and multidisciplinary intervention. The project aims the site regeneration through the construction of facilities with an Industrial-Sanitary character that not only supports the activities of storage, treatment and final disposition of Urban Waste but also trains workers and visitors about waste management, environmental education and retraining of informal jobs; improving the surroundings and offering tourism & leisure opportunities.
