0 Garden

0 Garden: Design for the circular organic waste treatment in the high-rise residential building

Yan, Xiaohu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Snijders, A. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Architectural Engineering

2022-01-13

Currently, the waste processing is always far from residents’ sight because most waste is transported to the centralised factories isolated from the urban context. As a result, Many residents are not aware of the importance of separating and recycling organic waste at the source. This is also same for many high-rise green façade projects, a new trend in architectural design today. Many of today's high-rise residential green facades are inaccessible to residents, or have been designed by architects so that residents do not have the means to grow their favourite plants. These problems are ultimately social in nature and are closely related to the economic and cultural aspects of society. Although these problems are complex, we as architects can use our architectural expertise to try to provide solutions that are different from the norm. So this graduation project attempts to bring composting organic waste and planting, two activities most common in low-rise rural areas, to high-rise housing to enhance the community cohesion that is often missing in the high-rise residential tower, as well as allowing each resident to have their own small garden in the sky. And this project tries to offer a new way of thinking about how to bring the quality of life that is only found in low-density environments to high-density living environments.

household organic waste
high-rise
flow
circular
decentralised
social cohesion
transformation

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Student theses

master thesis

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