COALESCE

from Architectural Portfolio - Purvi Gargayan

by purvigargayan

The HERMITAGE RETREAT

Waste to Energy +Recycling Plant+ Nantatorium

ARCH 704 Design 4: INTEGRATED STUDIO

Professor: Stephanie Bayard

Project with Ayesha Nathani

Exhibition: Wast(ED): Living with Waste conducted by AIA

The City That Never Sleeps has a bigger problem than the flashing lights and noisy streets- it’s all of the trash that’s left to sit out on the sidewalks. New Yorkers produce 26,000 tons of garbage each day, 80% of which goes either to the Fresh Kills landfill or to out-of-state dumps. Eventually destroying a lot of our natural environment and compromising the air quality and health in nearby community.

Our main goal is to draw in the local community members to learn about the effects of trash disposal. To build a connection between the waste and the other programs. Hence, a studio project with a brief to design waste to energy recycling plant with natatorium speculates the opportunities to blur the boundaries between various stages of industrial process of the factory. The formal language of the project involves the Natatorium’s activities spread across, with the goal of providing visitors with an insight into the ongoing industrial processes of WTE and recycling units that are occurring concurrently. The depressions are highly inspired by the contextual residential blocks while the scale of the massing is industrial, keeping in mind the functionality of the machinery. Interior follows the similar architectural language to carve the spaces that allows the users to experience different scale and volumes. The horizontal connectivity of glass bridges throughout the building that forms the critical point of visual connection of programs and the outside.