Trash is just stuff in the wrong place

The excess warmth from the nuclear power plant already today supplies the cardboard and paper factories next to it with district heating. This concept of a symbiotic existence should and will be be expanded to cover all aspects of production: waste not, want not. Raw materials will increasingly be recovered from things that have already been produced, once, twice, three or more times. This means seeing the places where production takes place with an entirely new lens: re-production.

Re-productive labor will become part of the industrial landscape, just as the industry will become more re-productive. This project proposes a node, where trash arrives on the road, is collected centrally, sorted if necessary, and then finely distributed to a variety of industries close-by that use it as raw materials, or then transported longer distances by train in its new form as resources. This creates a new typology, a space defined by the different types of waste and small tasks of maintenance we are creating.

Industries and their undesirable by-products are re-contextualised as a new resource. The territory is used more densely, but is in turn repaired and maintained. Tasks shifts closer together and create a kind of nucleus, around which parasitic and symbiotic uses can grow. The people living in the Mittelland of Switzerland subconsciously already know that they are not living in a natural environment. We are all no longer exploiters of a natural landscape but sifters through our own rubbish.