62nd st. eco-park

The 62nd Street Eco-Park is meant to combine a waste stream management facility with a community hub. The park takes up a roughly 650,000 sq ft site and fits right into the landscape. People can walk right onto the site from the main road, which is something that was not possible before the facilities placement. This means that the design provides more green-space and park grounds than it takes away. The project should be created from recycled building materials meaning that the site is what it represents: A hub for circular economy principles to bloom. The park can be split into three sections: community gathering, threshold (where people can go to view the processing of these different waste streams), and the waste stream management facility itself.

This project was done as a part of a sustainability capstone course taken at the University of Pittsburgh. The project involved working closely with the City of Pittsburgh’s Chief Resilience Planners to develop an exhaustive report on different methods of waste management as well as a model for what an all encompassing eco-park could look like. The design was completed in two weeks including the drawings and video animation walkthrough sourced from the project. Collaborators for the project included Corrine Kroziel, Mel Marciesky, Delia Mercer, and Dana Vidic. You can read more about the project here:

https://news.engineering.pitt.edu/eco-village/