degrowthtorium
From Enter Future Distribution Co. (E.F.D.C)
Taught by Andre Bonice and Jean Marie Spencer
Programme Localised Energy Production, Bakery and Public Toilet
Degrowthtorium is a retrofit of the former home of the Melbourne Gas and Coke Co. It seeks to beacon a new post-carbon world through the insertion of a localised sustainable energy producer, one that utilises sludge (sewerage) and food waste. As the name suggests it isn’t concerned solely with endless production and consumption, instead it places both production and consumption within ecological parameters, set by the ability to produce electricity to power its own functions. The resulting architecture speaks to the resistance that is emblematic of the current climate movement; setting out a framework in which a building can act as a vehicle and platform for resisting ecological destructive forces. Through providing spaces for inaction, refusal to act and action we see an architecture that itself has joined the resistance. The Degrowthtorium, sets out a clear manifesto in regards to architecture's role in the climate crisis, as part problem but seemingly also part solution.