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Project Global: Ground

This exploration of our current day metropolitan condition as a system of systems deals with the crust of the Earth as a primary carrying capacitor of human activities, from the extraction of resources deep within the ground, to agricultural operations that barely scratch the surface.

Part 1: Lexicon

Part 2: Atlas

Part 3: Architectural Projects

Part 3: Architectural Projects index

︎ By means of introduction...
︎ Parliament of Things
︎ Cemetery 36
︎ Institute of Mining Safety
︎ Post Thinkbelt

︎ Extrapolated Realities ︎ Co-Op Backyarding
︎ Informal Urban Farmers Market
︎ The Eviction Economy
︎ ASHES Base

︎ Symbiotic Infrastructure
︎ Stormwater Parks
︎ Agri-Course
︎ Dead & Alive

︎ Remediated Lands
︎ Anti-dust Landscape
︎ Soil & Green
︎ Rebound Landscape
︎ Nature’s Lung

︎ New Forms of Settlements
︎ Trickle-down Water Works
︎ Recycling Center
︎ A.R.C.CA.DI.A
︎ Growing Roots

︎ Extraction Reaction

︎ Tailing Urbanism
︎ Lavoisier’s Law
︎ A New Energy Landscape
︎ Cake Town

Process

Witwatersrand Basin

The solid tailing material is hydrologically reclaimed using water jets. The liquid substance called ‘slurry’ is filtered, collected and transported to local processing plants to take out the remaining gold and uranium. The left-over slurry is transported to the central tailing facility through underground pipes with a diameter of 1m, allowing for a flow rate of 4,8 m3 /s. In the central facility, a dewatering process that uses a Thickener and subsequently a Verticle Press transforms the ‘slurry’ into ‘cake’, a material that consists for less than 20% out of water. The cake is transported by conveyor belts to site of deposition, where it is stacked by a system of a tripper car and spreaders.

Tutors

Sanne van den Breemer
Filip Geerts
Ilmar Hurkxkens

Director of Studies

Salomon Frausto

Contributors

Nigel Alarcon^(MX), Pooja Bhave^(IN), Mariano Cuofano^(IT), Fabiola Cruz^(PE), Alonso Díaz^(MX), Xiaoyu Ding^(CN), Ines Garcia‑Lezana^(ES), Sandra Garcia^(ES), Martino Greco^(IT), Sebastian Hitchcock^(ZA), Alejandra Huesca^(MX), Yesah Hwangbo^(KR), Takuma Johnson^(US), Yi-Ni Lin^(TW), Paola Tovar^(MX), Cristhy Mattos^(BR), Preradon Pimpakan^(TH), Adi Samet^(IL), Raymond Tang^(US), Kulaporn Temudom^(TH), Danai Tsigkanou^(GR), Jesse Verdoes^(NL), Rongting Xiao^(CN)