Deicke Richards employee Simon Maurice won the 2009 John Simpson prize for the best use of technology in a final year Architectural project
It seems as though even if we like it or not Architects are becoming cheerleaders for emerging environmental and political factors previously not considered. Shifting attitudes evident in the change of Governments worldwide.
The proposition is a Bio-char mill and Research Institute that is a 2nd generation use of the former sugar mill site situated on 4.5 ha parcel of land in the Nambour town centre. The Proposition to the expatriate’s Rudd and Swann is this; use architecture as the catalyst to reclaim the abandoned town centre of Nambour. The proposition hopes to include Bio-char as a technology to be included in the emissions trading scheme, as endorsed by the former Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull.
The plant operates on Bagasse, a waste produced from sugar cane manufacture, one of Queenslands biggest exports & generators of plant waste (120 Million tonnes per year). The Bio-char mill utilises the bagasse in a process called pyrolysis to manufacture oil, fuel, gas and other materials alternatively made from crude oil. The pyrolysis process is a clean clean technology with no emission and once started can perpetually power itself.
The Bio-char mill and Research Institute brings a new emerging technology to Nambour, the first of its kind in Australia and the World. This programme seeks to disregard the negative attributes often associated with industrial building assembly and prescribes a reciprocal interaction through the lens of valorised landscapes.
More text and images for the proposition can be found here
http://uqarchitecture09.org/pages/SimonMaurice.html
The proposition is a Bio-char mill and Research Institute that is a 2nd generation use of the former sugar mill site situated on 4.5 ha parcel of land in the Nambour town centre. The Proposition to the expatriate’s Rudd and Swann is this; use architecture as the catalyst to reclaim the abandoned town centre of Nambour. The proposition hopes to include Bio-char as a technology to be included in the emissions trading scheme, as endorsed by the former Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull.
The plant operates on Bagasse, a waste produced from sugar cane manufacture, one of Queenslands biggest exports & generators of plant waste (120 Million tonnes per year). The Bio-char mill utilises the bagasse in a process called pyrolysis to manufacture oil, fuel, gas and other materials alternatively made from crude oil. The pyrolysis process is a clean clean technology with no emission and once started can perpetually power itself.
The Bio-char mill and Research Institute brings a new emerging technology to Nambour, the first of its kind in Australia and the World. This programme seeks to disregard the negative attributes often associated with industrial building assembly and prescribes a reciprocal interaction through the lens of valorised landscapes.
More text and images for the proposition can be found here
http://uqarchitecture09.org/pages/SimonMaurice.html
Posted on 18 January 2010