Theater of Decay
Nature and Human Coexistence in the Toxic Landscapes in Rotterdam Port
D. Arakji (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
S. Milani – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
T. Kuzniecow Bacchin – Mentor (TU Delft - OLD Urban Compositions)
J.P.G. Holst – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
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Abstract
We’re living in an era where spaces of logistics are further being detached from cities and urbanization to avoid choke points. But as these spaces migrate they leave traces of spaces permeating the city. What might be the impact of these logistical residual spaces whether large or very small on the expanding urban environment creating a clash, chaos and wastelands. The Port of Rotterdam is going under change concerning the petrochemical part. The reasons of decrease of oil in the last decade for the aim to shift to more sustainable energy production and for the increase of toxic spills on the ground and atmosphere. What would be the use of the abandoned toxic land of the petrochemical part of the Port, that once was storing oil, one of natures most needed source of for human survival, and refining it through burning.