Jiawei Fan Y4
Curating Landfills: Reimagining Coastal Waste Landscape
Over 1,000 historical landfill sites in the UK are at increasing risk of being breached by erosion. Global sea level rise has forced us into a critical position to rethink our relationship with flooding. This project, instead of inventing a defensive structure, attempts to propose a permeable border at a landfill site.
In response to the managed retreat plan at the East Tilbury Landfill, Curating Landfills envisions a restoration facility which breaches the sea wall and acts as a buffer to the landscape behind. Through repurposing the inert waste from the site, the proposal attempts to explore an alternative inhabitation to the interstitial zone between the wet and dry in a coastal landfill.
