Grounds For Healing : Tales of Toxic Terrain

University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

Author: Anna Ingebrigtsen; [2014]

Keywords: architecture; landscape architecture; design; bioremediation; phytoremediation; ecology; toxins; contamination; environment; sustainability; stockholm; aspudden; meadows; compost; narrative; history; feminist; theory; nobel; dynamite; pollution; extract; harvest; decompose; grow; crops; green roof; pathways; barge; fields;

Abstract: This project proposes the restoration of Vinterviken’s contaminated grounds, a legacy of Nobel’s dynamite production. How can we live with toxicity? The design sows phytoremediating meadows, extracts toxins, harvests, decomposes, burns, and grows new crops. Elevated pathways offer a procession through the site, to green roofs, mountain paths, an open kitchen & hearth, a floating barge with biopools & a sauna. As the fields are healed, the structures move into the barge and sail to other polluted sites.

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