Eco Factor: Mushroom-like solar evaporators clean city’s sewage, while MessyTech blends conflict and harmony to generate greener ideas.
The Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition, an open ideas competition sponsored by SCI‐Arc and The Architect’s Newspaper that asked entrants to re-imagining L.A.’s urban fabric as an incubator for green jobs and technology, has recently announced “Project Umbrella” as the Professional Category winner and “MessyTech” as Student Category winner. Designed by Constantin Boincean, Ralph Bertram and Aleksandra Danielak, the $5,000 first place award winner features a series of mushroom-like solar evaporators that collect and clean city sewage, and eventually releases the clean water into the streets, generating a transformation into a network of lush, cultivated landscapes.
The $2,000 the Student Category First Place Award winner recognizes the full life cycles involved in “clean” industries, which can be complex and not perfectly clean. Christened the “MessyTECH,” this project by Randall Winston, Jennifer Jones and Renee Pean proposes to foster creativity and artistic approach in environments of cross‐pollination and collaboration of messy processes with clean technology to come up with a cleaner solution. Their proposal is based on amalgamating conflict and harmony to generate good ideas. Bringing diverse infrastructures, people and activities under one roof would lead to a rich and dynamic urban fabric.
Via: Bustler
