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GARBAGE CITY
HIRIYA GARBAGE DUMP, TEL AVIV
1999
SITE: A former garbage dump eighty meters high.
PROJECT: A city formed out of the garbage dump.
The slopes are stabilized by concrete mesh. Near the highway, the walls spiral out to form a stadium surrounded by the shell of a convention center; an office building is plugged into the shell. A cut-out of mesh forms a power plant that collects methane gas from the dump and distributes it to the city; the ventilation shaft rises like a flag-pole. At the other end of the dump, private houses are plugged into the mesh that stretches up and outward; they reach out for the view of Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean.
On the southern slopes, solar panels are inserted into the mesh. The water-channels on three sides are joined together and turned into wetlands. The irregular top of the dump is planed out into fields for crops and a grazing land for cows. The trees of a public park descend an incline and break through the wall, cantilevering over the wetlands.
From the highway, a road descends underground and comes up onto islands of parking in the wetlands. A monorail ascends the top edge of the concrete-mesh; funiculars descend the wall.
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