The ecolinks project consolidates the landfill and cemetery with the amenity of the golf course. By utilizing the resources of each, ecolinks is an infrastructural center for a self-sufficient community. Cemeteries are once again a vibrant space for recreation with the added benefit of providing grazing land to herds of Shetland cows owned by residents. The golf course rough is now alive with produce in allotment gardens and the water hazards biofilter sewage and landfill seepage. Multiples of these small but dense communities will act in a distributed network to generate power and weather in the face of climactic imbalance. Landfills, now an inconspicuous part of the bucolic topography, produce methane that powers hygroscopic cloud seeding equipment. The storms from these plants not only provide rain to fight desertification in neighboring communities, but their lightning will be captured, stored used for co-generation and trickled back into a smart grid
In the face of current low density development and daunted by resource depletion and climactic change we must build a new infrastructural network that supports dense walkable mixed-use nodes connected by transit routes and surrounded by natural corridors.
The biggest obstacle to such redevelopment is not single family homes on large lots. Infill can bring residential areas to transit-ready density. The major problem is vast tracts of land given over to perpetual large-lot use such as golf courses, cemeteries and landfills.
Methane is 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas. If we are producing enough methane to power such plants, I hope we are not leaking enough to cause concern. We would need a lot of gas to produce liquid rain… I think the scale of this project is fraught with too many hazards.
cool. i like the cow. there needs to be more cows in architecture renderings.
this is a comment on the golf proposal:
the “church of golf” = Churches are very prominent in the suburban social context. with a church of golf, maybe one can build a semi rural development. the golf course could be maintained by sheep as a by-product of golf. Sheep carcasses fuel the generators.
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So who trains the cows to duck when someone yells “Fore!”