COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Mining Crops: Coupling strategy of infrastructure opportunism for abandoned mines
Creator:
Kaser, Derek M.
Subject:
Thesis (M.Arch.) -- Architecture
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Architecture
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
As the growth of a globalizing culture’s demands for raw materials
continues to rise, the process of mineral extraction continues to
consume viable farm land. After the resources from strip mining
are exhausted, social stigma hides the potential of a productive
landscape and alternative economy.
Vertical farming confronts these urgent issues of environment
degradation and provides the opportunity for projecting a future
infrastructure through bundling multiple processes with spatial
organization.
The process of land reclamation of ecological disasters only
perceives to correct the damages. In actuality, the resulting
landscapes cannot produce the necessary nutrients to sustain food
production. A coupling strategy can be introduced to the strip mine,
after reclamation strategies, to capitalize on a productive landscape.
This intensive, dynamic system is capable of processing disparate,
extrinsic matter outside of its discipline proper.1 By disregarding
natural cycles, this strategy provides the capability to exceed the
land’s ability to provide abundant resources.
Architecture is reintegrated as a systems-based organization, within
the broader globalized exchanges of economic, ecologies, and land
use; expanding on an open system that continuously interacts with
and adapts to its environment.2
This thesis focuses on turning an ecological disaster into an
agriculturally productive and ecologically sustainable site by
exploring the destructive forces of open pit mining, the reclamation
process of an ecosystem, and the development of a coupling
strategy for agricultural production within an open pit mine.
continues to rise, the process of mineral extraction continues to
consume viable farm land. After the resources from strip mining
are exhausted, social stigma hides the potential of a productive
landscape and alternative economy.
Vertical farming confronts these urgent issues of environment
degradation and provides the opportunity for projecting a future
infrastructure through bundling multiple processes with spatial
organization.
The process of land reclamation of ecological disasters only
perceives to correct the damages. In actuality, the resulting
landscapes cannot produce the necessary nutrients to sustain food
production. A coupling strategy can be introduced to the strip mine,
after reclamation strategies, to capitalize on a productive landscape.
This intensive, dynamic system is capable of processing disparate,
extrinsic matter outside of its discipline proper.1 By disregarding
natural cycles, this strategy provides the capability to exceed the
land’s ability to provide abundant resources.
Architecture is reintegrated as a systems-based organization, within
the broader globalized exchanges of economic, ecologies, and land
use; expanding on an open system that continuously interacts with
and adapts to its environment.2
This thesis focuses on turning an ecological disaster into an
agriculturally productive and ecologically sustainable site by
exploring the destructive forces of open pit mining, the reclamation
process of an ecosystem, and the development of a coupling
strategy for agricultural production within an open pit mine.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2014-05
Format:
PDF : 150 p. : ill