Carbon Language - A growing terrain

AN EVOLVING CARBON LANDSCAPE Hitarth Nandi & Thwisha Shah

Instructor: Ariane Lourie Harrison, Yuxiang Chen, Carlos J. Balza Gerardino

GLOBAL CARBON EMISSIONS

Global building floor area is expected to double by 2060

The presence of carbon, as both an architectural form and as an atmospheric material, is one marker of climate change. The construction industry contributes 40% of global carbon emissions. The process of making cement contributes to about 7% of the worldʼs CO2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Global ABC Global Status Report, 2018

Annual Global CO2 Emissions

Annual Global CO2 Emissions Other

28% Building Operations Transportation

Transportation

Industry

Building Energy-related CO2 Emissions, 1990-2050

Other

11% Building Materials & Construction

Industry

Source: Global ABC Global Status Report, 2018

Building Operations

23% Concrete (11%) Steel (10%) Aluminium (2%)

Source: US Energy Information Administration, 2018

THE ARCHITECTURAL ENVELOPE NEEDS TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED TO CONFRONT CARBON.

EVOLUTION OF GOVERNORS ISLAND 1870

1912

1965

CARBON RESERVOIRS

Source: Buildings as a global carbon sink

2016

GOVERNORS ISLAND AS A SITE

CARBON PRESERVATION

Governors Island is increasingly invaluable to NYC as a lab at the forefront of innovating solutions for urban sustainability—an urgent imperative for a city especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

The existing barracks on Eastern Development Zone act as a canvas to showcase different phenomenon of global warming due to the abundance of carbon in the environment. Modifying that fabric allows us to adapt and reuse the already built. The abundance of carbon in the atmosphere and ground can be brought into use by using it in a mixture with cement to make sustainable concrete.

MATERIAL BOARD OF EXISTING BARRACKS

2016

2021

VISION OF THE PROJECT

1. ADAPTING BARRACKS

2. TECHNOLOGY TO EXTRACT ATMOSPHERIC CARBON

3. INTRODUCING PATHWAY

EASTERN DEVELOPMENT ZONE MAP 1. ADAPTING BARRACKS Several 6000 Sq. Ft. Barracks initially served as home to soldiers, now serve as a vast canvas on the trajectory and portray the idea of carbon confrontation. The structure holds the potential to be repurposed to include services for the functioning of the turbines to filter CO2.

2. TECHNOLOGY TO CAPTURE CARBON AND MAKE CARBONCURE CONCRETE A structure designed to accommodate a technology that extracts atmospheric carbon and through a series of processes builds sustainable building material.

3. TRAJECTORY The audience passes through the pathway to experience the emerging landscape made of sustainable concrete.

It is an immersive experience from the yankee pier to the barracks and the structures that comprise of the turbines.

KEY PLAN

DEEP SECTION

METHOD TO STORE ATMOSPHERIC CARBON Source: Climeworks Technology Video

ORCA PLANT, ICELAND

CONCENTRATED CO2

WATER

Source: Climeworks Technology

CO2 TURNS INTO CARBONATE MINERALS

WATER IS MIXED WITH FILTERED CO2 TO CONVERT INTO CARBONATE MATERIALS Source: Climeworks Technology Video

GROUND SECTION

MARBLE QUARRY - AESTHETIC REFERENCE Source: Google

CONCEPT SECTION

CLIMEWORKS TECHNOLOGY The technology captures carbon dioxide directly from the air; removing unavoidable and historic CO₂ emissions. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and used as a raw material, or completely removed from the air by safely storing it.

CO2 FREE AIR

AMBIENT AIR

FILTER FULL OF CO2

100 DEGREE CELSIUS

FINS OF COLLECTOR CLOSE

USING CARB-FIX METHOD THE CARBON IS MIXED WITH WATER & PUMPED DEEP UNDERGROUND AND CAN BE STORED PERMANENTLY FOR THOUSAND YEARS

CARBON STONE formed as an outcome from the carbon sequestration infrastructure. This piece of rock is pushed down in the ground to speed up the process of creating carbon led minerals.

CARBONCURE CONCRETE CarbonCure manufactures a technology for the concrete industry that introduces recycled CO₂ into fresh concrete to reduce its carbon footprint without compromising performance. Once injected, the CO₂ undergoes a mineralization process and becomes permanently embedded.

CEMENT + H2O

CO2+ H2O

Calcium (Ca2+)

Carbonate (CO32-) = CaCO 3

TIMELINE GRID & CALCULATION (YEARLY) 1 Turbine = 1660 cu.ft of CO2 per year = 6 Blocks 1 Block uses 25 cu.ft of CO2 40 Turbines = 66400 cu.ft of CO2 In 1 year: 40 turbines will produce 66400 cu.ft of CO2 which will be used to make 2656 blocks.

Annually the project generates carbon equivalent to build 5300 sustainable concrete blocks.

SITE AXONOMETRIC

SITE AREA: 595,000 sq ft

BREATHING LANDSCAPE

INTERACTIVE LANDSCAPE

CARBON PLAZA

Activities at immersive shoreline EDZ, Governorʼs Island, New York

Penetrating the Barracks EDZ, Governorʼs Island, New York

GATHERING SPACE

ENTRANCE PLAZA

Interactive space between the stepped carbon landscape

Entrance area for the visitors which leads to the trajectory

BUILDING DETAIL STRUCTURE WITH TURBINES + BARRACKS

TURBINE PANEL 40 turbines that absorb the air and capture CO2.

ENTRY TO STRUCTURE Service Stair, Pipeline Expo

BARRACKS They host the required services for the functioning of the turbines and mixing cement with CO2

BUILT PROFILE

TURBINE

DEPICTION OF INCREASE IN CARBON IN THE ATMOSPHERE

BARRACK

Needs to be edited on photoshop.

BUILDING A NEW GROUND