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Saint Louis is a city of contradictions. It is a city
at the intersection and periphery. It is a city of
production and disenfranchisement. Within this
context, Topo_gra_cycle serves as a proposal
meant to mediate these divergent conditions.
The site is a marginalized industrial site located
to the North of the Saint Louis Arch and within
the flood plain of the Mississippi River.
The proposal uses the latent physical and
dynamic processes of the site to develop
a language of architectural form and
programmatic use. The site is contextualized as
a vector field, and the architectural intervention
becomes a topography of recycling activities.
Topogracycle addresses the typology of a
recycling center. Often recycling facalities are
buildings that are mitigated to the periphery
of public conscieousness or awareness. The
proposal fundamentally asks: Can a recycling
facility become an iconic structure that engages
the public and civic life?
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