EXISTING SITUATION
Advanced Biotech
figure 1. touristic and industrial regional functions
figure 2. biotechnology network in Germany
CONCEPT
AIMS
The project is aiming to take the current status quo of Lusatia one step further, implementing a visionary approach. Prescind the overwehlmingness of current issues a focus of the design strategy are the qualities of the territory and the ways they can be involved into a long-term development concept. A main aspect of the Lusatia landscape are the huge ‘wounded’ from the coal extraction activities territories - the coal-mine pits. Currently they are impossible to use for agriculture, due to the eccess of acidic elements in the soil, which creates highly unhospitable growth environment for most edible plants. Furthermore the desert-like current physical character of the landscape requires a lot of investment and efforts for retaining the stamina of the earth and the aesthetical qualities of the space in order to be used for iniciatives in any other area - be it residential, touristic, industrial. this issue is counteracted via creating the connection between it and the recent past of the region. Since it already has established a recognition as an energy-producing such, this is a precondition that can be taken further, but eliminating thenegative side-effects that coal-energy burdens the territory with. From the renewable sources of energy the one that fits the territory preconditions is chosen. The biomass is a energy source that has the biggest impact in terms of territory usage from all renewables. It involves planting huge territories with fast-growing species in order to fastly grow the material for energy production. This is a similar requirement to the one that phytoremediation process has, but in the case for faster extraction from the soil of conteminants and faster stabilizing of the soil process. The design proposal develops this precondition by transforming the mine-pits into biomass fields and converting the former coal power-plants into biomass-plants.
The concentration of attention in Lusatia region is currently focused on the negative aftereffects from the decades of coal-energy production. Nevertheless this period has also been an inevitable step, leading to technological and scientific achievements, which alow us to recognise the faults in our previous approaches. The project aims to explore and develop a scenario in which the advancements, left as a legacy from the coal-energy period, are further developed in order to counteract and solve current, global issues.
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agricultural land touristic region industrial region urban sprawl biomass fields_annual plants biomass fields_short rotation coppice biomass fields_perrenial plants energy production --> consumption power plant coal --> biomass transition advanced biotech park
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Lusatia Regional Structural Plan
[ bio energy/engineering region ]
Institute for Architecture and Planning | MSc Architecture | Summer Semester 2016 Sustainable Urban Design | Studio Lecturer: Prof. Peter Droege | Research Fellow: Dr. Anis Radzi Student: Mina Stoilcheva