NO TRASH
ALL TREASURE
When Waste is Collected: Nodes
4.1 Center Masterplan
The Central Hub aims to be an attractive space where recycling immerses into people’s lifestyles and celebrates the no-waste future. By using colorful pavers and infrastructure built with recycled material, the project creates a pedestrian-friendly area for people and bikers. The mix of green space and plazas provide the potential for flexible activities such as education, repair workshops, and flea market.
Greenline as an opportunity to connect the site with surrounding communities and commercial areas.
A place created to serve both resource recovery and public activity function due to the lack of repair and reuse in Kingston.
Repurposing the existing vacant buildings and creating a mix of public and green spaces for better indoor and outdoor connection.
Shared pathway for bikers and pedestrians to move freely and have a visual connection with the railroad linear park.
A drive-through circulation for residents who want to stay longer in the center.
Service loading areas designed for service trucks.
4.2 Convenience & Change of Lifestyle
The community nodes provide convenience for the residents to recycle some unused household items. Truck will pick them up in the early morning and transport them to the hub. For those that could be future used, the on-site worker will clean them up and move to the second-hand store. Special events such as flea market and swop market will be held on the hub and residents could walk there to buy some second-hand stuff. Repair facilities also offer opportunities to reduce consumption and achieve the no-waste future.
4.3 Weekday vs. Events Days
The flexibility of space is something to highlight in the Central Hub. During normal weekdays, it is a place for relaxation, recycling, and repair. Residents and visitors can enjoy their time in the site built with recycling materials. Canopy trees along the shared greenline provide a better biking experience. And the large open lawn becomes an activity zone for people to interact with nature.
While during weekends or event times, the site will be used for flexible events. Both open space and plazas will be able to hold a large number of people for gatherings. Flea markets and education workshops help engage the local community.
Shared Bike Lane
The design connects the greenline with a shared-use path in the site. Bikers move freely and can have a visual connection with the linear park. By keeping the existing abandoned railroad and adding green spaces, the park becomes a place for people to interact with their cultural heritage and nature. Several bike racks are provided along the path as infrastructure.
Recycling Node
Moving to the center of the site, there’s a large recycling node for nearby businesses and residents.
Recycle Items Drop-off Center
The driveway allows residents to drop off their old furniture, e-products, and other household items with ease. As for this new building, it is mainly made of recycled plastic panels, concrete, wood panels, and asphalt.
Education Pavilion
The education pavilion used to be a vacant building on our site, and now it is repurposed as a second-hand store and education pavilion with recycled materials. During events, reuse, repair, and resource recovery education lectures and serve as a rest area during the weekday.
Second-hand Store
Behind the education pavilion is the second-hand store, it is also in the same renovated building. Items that are collected from the recycle-item drop-off area will be repaired and put ‘back to life’ here.
Flea Market
There will be a flea market event on the open lawn. The market will expand to all the open spaces during event days. Visitors will be able to repair, swap, and trade second-hand articles.