Clean-Tech Proposals

  
  
 

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Nathan Carter produced this plan with economics and recreation in mind: the Hunts Point Brewerywith an on-site waste water treatment system and methane digester, Alge Bio-Reactorsand carbon capture to produce valuable Bio-Diesel to supply clean fuel for local trucking; and fully incorporates the South Bronx Greenway into this 21st century industrial design

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This proposal by Ray Williams envisions a parctical and creative way of using Oak Point to help NYC meet its stated goal of planting 1 million trees over the next 10 years using a high performance green house to get new trees started, and then loading them onto barges until the trees are big enough to survive along our streets and greenways.  The barges can be parked in high CO2 concentration areas and along river front parks to augment the amount of green space available.

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"RE-Creating HUB" is the title of  Mr Chen's  piece.  It portrays a materials recovery and light manufacturing center so clean that it is enveloped by new parkland with smashing views of Manhattan to the south.

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Chih Yang's Bio-Industrial Plaza takes advantage of all the resouces passing through the Hunt's Point peninsula in the produce markets, sewerage sludge processing plants, and construction & demolition debris already, but are currently wasted - and in fact cost money to haul away.

This innovative look at "waste" is an excellent example of how to turn trash into treasure.

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Ian Weiss's approach to the Oak Point site takes into account predicted rises in sea level and frequency of severe storm surge events as outlined by the NYC Office of Emergency Management.  This dire but very realistic template for design rules out any long term dependable use of marine access and recommends restoring the wetlands as a natural mean to protect new infrastructure investment further inland.

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The above student proposals are the result of a design studio conducted by Columbia’s Graduate School of
Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and the Fu School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)
working in collaboration with Sustainable South Bronx (SSBX). Technical knowledge was shared through joint
seminar sessions and various forms of design collaboration were encouraged between architecture and engineering
students. The Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute (UDL) provided additional input.

The studio explored the redevelopment of the Oak Point industrial waterfront in the Hunts Point neighborhood of
the South Bronx and was based on the Eco-Industrial Park proposal created by SSBX and Green Worker
Cooperatives. The studio explored the issue of a new generation of industry in New York City related to the
transformation from a biotic-based economy to a restoration-based economy and from renewable to remediated
resources. This investigation was coordinated with the goals of the NYC2030 Plan as developed by the Mayor's
Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability.

Studio Participants:
Critics: Professor Richard Plunz, Professor Patricia Culligan
Teaching Fellows: Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Philip Simmons
Architecture Students: Nathan Carter, Terry Chen, Tat Lam, Ian Weiss, Ray Williams, Tom Wu, Chih Yang.
Engineering Students: Noah Corwin, Angel Eng, Nathaniel Gale, Ben Isham, Freda Laulicht, Amanda Lurie, Melissa
Di Marco, Lisa Papandrea, Shinjinee Pathak, Rohini Sengupta, Jonathan Shalfi, Jonathan Sutter, Alexander
Weinberg, Caroline Zennie.

     
 

Currently the City of New York is attempting to build new jails in the South Bronx.

Sustainable South Bronx proposes clean-tech industrial developments that will

use barge and rail to take trucks off the streets, clean the air, produce jobs;

and reduce our contribution to the global climate crisis by using renewable energy.