Chains of Cooperation

Chains of Cooperation: Synergies between waste & Co2

Balletta, Alessandra (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Ferreira de Sousa Daher Moura, Julia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
van Ulsen, Wieke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Snel, Femke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Balz, Verena Elisabeth (mentor)
Katsikis, N. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

AR2U086 R&D Studio – Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis

2022-04-06

The province of South Holland is a region in the Netherlands that can be characterized by its flourishing economy. The place where the vein of the river Maas stretches out over land and the Port of Rotterdam has settled in as a strategic trade-point. Moreover, the abundant agricultural sector in Westland holds accountable for not only multiple glasshouses, but also many livestock farms in the province.
When it comes to social inclusion in this big trade-port frame, the disconnection between the workers of the port to the chain of trade they are involved in is clearly noticeable. At the same time, farmers have no relation to the port industries and chains of distribution and cooperation.
This said, the vision strives to transform the linear, incoherent and patchy economy into a bio-based economy, truly rooted on circular and cooperative hallmarks. Enclosed within is a strategy that embeds entirely the waste-chains that can be found in both the Port and the agricultural sector and have currently been underused.
The idea of generating bio-energy from processed waste flows from glasshouses and farmers ensures that the production runs on bio-based means. To completely close the cycle, the vision enhances the port provision of CO2 through pipelines underground to the glasshouses in the Westland, as it further supports cultivation of crops and helps to reduce unsustainable energy consumption.
New cycles based on waste, unveil new landscape demands in the Province of South Holland, in which waste streams can be treated, traded and re-used for new purposes. These are zones with high potential to become spots for the exchange of knowledge from both parties (Port and agricultural sector) on how to strive and cooperate in the transition towards a circular and cooperative economy, in the near future.

bio-based
CO2 trades
waste chains
cooperation
waste-to-value
circular economy

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© 2022 Alessandra Balletta, Julia Ferreira de Sousa Daher Moura, Wieke van Ulsen, Femke Snel