East Harlem
THE BANK
Creating an ideological and physical infrastructure that mediates between
assembly and dissassembly of built environments.
THE BANK
Creating an ideological and physical infrastructure that mediates between
assembly and dissassembly of built environments.
Construction and Demolition
SOLID WASTE IN NEW YORK CITY
About 6 million tons of construction and demolition debris are generated in New York City every year.
This amounts to almost half of all waste generated in the city by weight.
FROM
DESTRUCTION
TO DECONSTRUCTION
DESTRUCTION
TO DECONSTRUCTION
Raw materials are increasingly being exhausted in the natural realm, while inversely accumulating within buildings.
Manhattan is an urban mine full of treasures.
Manhattan is an urban mine full of treasures.