WCS Products: bio-domes & bio-shells. Bio-Domes Bio-domes consist of several concentrically nested domes that are infused with low pressure air to optimize the growth of naturally occurring bio-films. Bio-domes sit on the floor of a lagoon and are completely submerged.As water flows through bio-domes, bottom-to-top, beneficial bacteria effectively reduce biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), and ammonia-nitrogen (NH3/NH4+) in waste water lagoons prior to discharge. Bio-Shells Bio-shells utilize the same underlying principles as the bio-domes.
The bio-shells were developed as an alternative to bio-domes to be utilized in applications where space is limited and / or lagoon depths are too shallow to accommodate a bio-dome. The half pipe design of the bio-shells can be installed end-to-end, which allows for a more dense installation. Veolia Eau | Traiter l'eau au naturel. Située en bordure de la ville du Lude, la nouvelle station Organica de traitement des eaux usées du Lude (Sarthe) est une serre de 235 m2 qui s'élève sur un terrain bordé de champs et à 200 m d'habitations.
Le système Organica a été développé en Hongrie, où il compte de nombreuses références dans des municipalités hongroises, de même qu'en Autriche, Pologne et deux en Chine. Ce système innovant et performant de traitement des eaux usées associe les derniers développements en matière d'ingénierie écologique et les technologies de traitement conventionnelles. Organica FBRTM s'appuie ainsi sur des traitements par boues activées dans différents bassins placés en dessous de la serre. Première réalisation Organica en France, la station de traitement du Lude a une capacité de 6000 équivalent habitants ; elle a été mise en service en décembre 2009. Fonctionnement général d'Organica FBR™ Organica, une station d’épuration qui soigne son intégration paysagère - Eau & énergie. © Organica/Veolia Station Organica La société Organica, fondée à Budapest il y a une quinzaine d’années, est née de l’idée de proposer une station d’épuration offrant un certain esthétisme architectural.
La société hongroise installe des stations de traitement de l'eau qui ont l'apparence de jardins d'hiver. Aujourd'hui associée à Veolia Water, Organica exporte sa technologie, associant traitement de boues activées et plantations végétales, sur le territoire français. Basée sur le fonctionnement classique d'une station à boues activées, avec bassin anaérobie et aérobie, la spécificité du système d'Organica repose sur l'association de plantes. En plantant à la surface des bassins enterrés, Organica offre en surface un jardin sous serre, tout en optimisant le traitement de l'eau en sous-sol. Le système racinaire qui s'enfonce dans les boues jusqu'à plus de1 m 50 représente plusieurs milliers de m² de surface. . © Gregory Proch Schéma de fonctionnement Schéma de fonctionnement. ADAGE ADaptation de l’AGriculture et des Ecosystèmes anthropisés au changement climatique.
Streets With No Name | sweet juniper! This past winter, the snow stayed so long we almost forgot what the ground looked like. In Detroit, there is little money for plowing; after a big storm, the streets and sidewalks disappear for days. Soon new pathways emerge, side streets get dug out one car-width wide. Bootprints through parks veer far from the buried sidewalks.
Without the city to tell him where to walk, the pilgrim who first sets out in fresh snowfall creates his own path. Others will likely follow, or forge their own paths as needed. In the heart of summer, too, it becomes clear that the grid laid down by the ancient planners is now irrelevant. In vacant lots between neighborhoods and the attractions of thoroughfares, bus stops and liquor stores, well-worn paths stretch across hundreds of vacant lots. Desire lines are considered by many landscape architects to be proof of a flaw in the design of a physical space, or more gently, a sign that concrete cannot always impose its will on the human mind. World Landscape Architecture. Turenscape | Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition. 48th IFLA World Landscape Architecture Congress 2011. „Minimize Intervention and maximize Return“ - a rational description of the very poetic project "Red Ribbon Park" Prof.
Kongjian Yu's address to a large audience in Zurich's Kongresshaus began with a retrospective journey through his life. Born in China in the 1960s, he came from a farming background. This influenced his perception of the interconnections between nature and the cultivation of the landscape. He believes that the latter can only produce a good yield if it adapts itself to the conditions imposed by the former – an ecological and economic approach which is the dominant feature of his landscape planning. Among hundreds of candidates from the whole of China Kongjian Yu was one of 60 students to be given the opportunity of studying garden design – for him an ironic development because his previous dealings with plants had been in terms of earning a living rather than aesthetic pleasure.
Prof. Red Ribbon Park project: The kilometre long bench can even be seen from space. City Parks, Like Madrid Río, Stand Where Highways Did.
Nature as Infrastructure. Landscape urbanism is a cross-disciplinary profession where surfaces are manipulated and artificial terrains are created. In this context, Kongjian Yu founded Turenscape in 1999 after taking his doctorate degree at Harvard University. He began teaching, trying illustrate alternative ways of understanding the urban process. But what happened when students and architects asked him to go from theory to practice? With this question in mind, we talked with Kongjian Yu about his most recent project, the Qunli National Urban Wetland. Ethel Baraona: Let's talk about the close relationship you have with natural environments.
The elevated walkway around Qunli National Urban Wetland. I suppose this interest comes from a real need. In the Qunli National Urban Wetland you worked with a multidisciplinary team, didn't you? That's wonderful but radical thinking. General plan of Qunli National Urban Wetland. Can you explain how the Qunli National Urban Wetland works to provide these services?
Plan to Remove Sheridan Expressway Gains Momentum. Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig by Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Autumn 2007. Lessons of Boston’s Big DigNicole Gelinas America’s most ambitious infrastructure project inspired engineering marvels—and colossal mismanagement. States, cities, and towns across America must spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to preserve the nation’s infrastructure—the backbone of its private-sector economy—and yet more to build the next generation of roads, bridges, tunnels, and dams. Spending so much money wisely is daunting. The good news: no matter how complex and expensive any future project is, it’s unlikely to be more so than the Big Dig, Massachusetts’s three-decade-long quest to bury and expand the Central Artery, Boston’s major interstate highway, and carve out a new underwater tunnel to Logan Airport. Every major decision that could conceivably be made on an infrastructure project was made on the Big Dig, from how to pay for it to how to forge the public and political support for it to how to manage its construction and maintenance.
Rendez-vous international sur la gestion intégrée de l'eau • Des outils pour AGIR. Madrid Rio. Madrid río The Madrid Río project originated when the section of the M-30 ring road running parallel to the Manzanares River was moved underground, resulting in an area of parkland 10 kilometres long. The river bank has thus become an integral part of the city centre, and now offers Madrilenians and visitors an area surrounded by vegetation and filled with wide a range of sports, leisure and cultural facilities.
Discover it on the Madrid Río guided tour, conducted in Spanish. The redeveloped area covers 649 hectares in six districts: Moncloa-Aravaca, Centro, Arganzuela, Latina, Carabanchel and Usera. The Madrid Río project will create a large area of environmental, sporting, leisure and cultural interest. Eliminating barriers The restoration process has affected the course of the river itself, both banks and nearby streets. Environmental features Another important novelty is the creation of green zones, where over 25,000 new trees are being planted.
Sports Leisure and culture. MAKESHIFT // CATALOGUE // THE URBAN PANTRY. We have reached a tipping point in the history of human civilisation. With over 50% of the world now living in an urban environment, sustaining large concentrations of people will become a big issue in the future. With oil prices fluctuating and the greater demand for meat and grain in the rapidly industrialising Far East, there has been global increase in food prices by up to 8.3%. Will there come a point where what you pay for food comes at too great a cost? It has been said that all cities are days away from anarchy, and considering the population of London consumes a land mass 125 times its own size, it is a chilling proposition. You are where you eat. Thankfully, food is a topical issue in the eyes of the public. A great amount of diversity is found on your doorstep. Lessons from Havana Havana, Cuba shows us that urban growing programs can successfully manage food production for an entire city.
Food is inherently a social and cultural entity. Redundancy. Terreform | Michael Sorkin.