Everyday, a continuous stream of products feed the city and become organic and inorganic waste. Human lives begin and end. Inadequate space exists for both waste management facilities and cemeteries. The creation of an Urban Machine that remediates brownfields and utilizes methanogenesis to recycle decomposing organic material into energy and other traces of life, joins transient industrial processes and enduring civic programs to create a new urban memorial experience.
The three processes exist physically on the same site cos they are using the same mechanism, and the products from each process are feeding into each other, providing energy and organic resource to other processes. Different groups of people and different types of organic resources are brought into the machine through different paths, intersect and expand at and around different intersections. Thus the civic is brought in and infiltrated across, and lead to the waterfront, creating a thicker band at the edge of the city.
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