NUCLEAR - landmarker for a waste isolation site
Registration Deadline: Saturday, Oct 21, 201711:59 PMEDT
Submission Deadline: Sunday, Oct 22, 201711:59 PMEDT
NUCLEAR
How do we design architecture with a message that could endure for millennia?
Since the Cold War, one of the most challenging and urgent tasks facing governments around the world has been the disposal of transuranic nuclear waste. As a by-product from nuclear weaponry production, transuranic waste is not only harmful, but also boasts a formidable decay process lasting thousands of years. To address this issue, millions of barrels of highly radioactive waste have been buried in repositories deep beneath the earth’s surface. One such disposal site is the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, United States. To ensure public safety, it is imperative that the site remain undisturbed for the duration of the waste’s decay process.
arch out loud asks competition entrants to design a marker or marker system to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The marker should exist as a means of passive institutional control of the site for the duration of 10,000 years, following the closure and deactivation of the WIPP. The purpose of the marker is to communicate with future generations that transuranic waste is buried within a repository at the facility, located 2,150 feet beneath its surface, and should remain isolated until the risks posed by its release have been sufficiently diminished.
1st Place: $5,000 + Publication
Runner-Up: $1,000 + Publication
Runner-Up: $1,000 + Publication
Runner-Up: $1,000 + Publication
Patrik Schumacher - Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects | Architectural Association
Ben van Berkel - Founder/Principal, UN Studio | Harvard GSD
Martha Schwartz - Founder/Principal, Martha Schwartz Partners
Eva Franch - Director, Storefront for Art and Architecture | OOAA
Marc Tsurumaki - Founder/Principal, LTL Architects | Cornell AAP | Columbia GSAPP
Elaine Molinar - Partner/Managing Principal, Snohetta
Vivian Lee - Associate Partner, Richard Meier & Partners
Meejing Yoon - Department Head, MIT Department of Arch. | Cofounder, Höweler + Yoon
Michael Madsen - Director, "Into Eternity" film
Jamie von Klemperer - President/Design Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Theodore Hoerr - Founder/Principal, Terrain Works
Hsinming Fung - Founder/Principal, Hodgets + Fung
Russell Patterson - Compliance Manager & Scientist, U.S. Department of Energy | WIPP
Thomas Klein - Senior Scientist, AECOM | WIPP
Daniel Arsham - Artist | Partner, Snarkitecture
Geoff Manaugh - Founder, BLDGBLOG | Author, A Burglar's Guide to the City
JUN 7TH, 2017 Advance registration opens
JUL 8TH, 2017 Advanced registration closes
JUL 9TH, 2017 Early registration opens
AUG 12TH, 2017 Early registration closes
AUG 13TH, 2017 Regular registration opens
OCT 21ST, 2017 Registration deadline
OCT 22ND, 2017 Submission deadline
NOV 20TH, 2017 Winners Announced
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