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URBAN MINING

Nowadays waste product is a very common problem for all over the country. Each year we produce about 6.7 million tons of food waste and other waste such as plastic and milk box. If we keep overlook to these problem it may cause a big problem to some certain area and it will start to fade away from the surrounding and become an undeveloped area. So, the community I choose is Wat Phatum Wanaram, it sit between Siam Paragon and Central World, which is very center area of Bangkok. Right now this community has been overlooked by other people, because of an informal organization with disordered sites of waste disposal, creating an unsanitary and unhygienic appeal to outsiders.

The proposal aims to turn the community into an street market stongly driven by processes of recycling the waste of the community itself and the surrounding malls and reusing existing materials, with a procedure that we could call “urban minimg”. Waste of different nature is turned into energy, primary materials and visual references for the community. An innovative construction system and two recicling devices called the “Biogas and Compression Systems” are contributing to change the phisical appearance of the community while reinforcing its social tissue.

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