

Landfill Waste
MATDesign and architectural responses to landfill waste, including remediation, recycling infrastructure, and adaptive reuse of waste sites.
Landfill waste presents complex challenges for urban environments and communities living near disposal sites. Designers and architects are developing strategies to transform these spaces through remediation, infrastructure design, and community-centered interventions that address both environmental and social impacts.The community explores waste management facilities as architectural opportunities, landfill site transformations into functional public spaces, recycling and waste processing campuses, and educational projects that demonstrate how waste materials can be repurposed as building resources.
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View all 5 journalsKPF Wraps a Taiwanese Waste Recycling Plant in a Public Fern Garden, Exhibition Hall and Roof Terrace
In Xiulin Township, Eastern Taiwan, TCC's DAKA recycling center puts its waste pit on public view and layers learning spaces around the machinery.
Ballistic Architecture Machine Disguises a Shanghai Waste-to-Energy Plant as a Public Park
The Baoshan Waste-to-Energy Center buries 128,000 square meters of industrial infrastructure beneath landscaped rooftops and museum galleries in Shanghai.
RAGE: A School Built from Garbage on a Bangalore Landfill
A recycling-driven educational complex in Mavallipura transforms landfill waste into building materials, farmland, and a radical new pedagogy.
The Re-Urbanization of Waste: A Market Square That Puts Rubbish on Public Display
A shortlisted UnIATA '19 entry that threads a raised walkway over compactors, tanks and market stalls, recasting waste handling as a civic routine.