Architecture Department Thesis Proposal: College of Architecture and Fine Arts

Republic of the Philippines

EULOGIO “AMANG” RODRIGUEZ

INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Nagtahan, Sampaloc, Manila
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND FINE ARTS

ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT
THESIS PROPOSAL
Abstract
TITLE : BIO-COMM’ERGY; A Waste-to-Energy Facility in the Payatas Sanitary Landfill

STUDENT NO. : 150-0325
DEGREE : BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
I. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Waste is the by-product of man and is produced every day, The global community recognized that Solid Waste
Management is an issue that requires serious attention. The Philippines, has resulted in the manufacture, distribution
and use of products and generation of wastes that contributes to environmental degradation and global climate change.
This is proven with the increasing rise of temperatures, sea levels, carbon dioxide emissions, and the threat of global
warming. With the rise of these environmental crises we have the paralleled rise of waste in the forms of sanitary
landfills that produces invisible yet poisonous toxins in the air, water, and soil and also takes up valuable land spaces
and excretes harmful bio-gases leading us all to cancerous fates and eventual extinction.
Today referred to as the “garbage mountain”, enormous open dump or sanitary landfills is a grave environmental hazard,
threatening the quality of life, health, safety and the environment with its odors and uncontrolled seeping leachates that
kill surface vegetation.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources reported that about 70% of Municipal Solid Waste in the country
still ends up on landfills or uncontrolled dumpsites, which often contaminate surface water, ground water or soil and
emit greenhouse gases. It produces 250 tons of leachate daily (about 90,000 tons annually), This current waste
management system has very well proven itself unsustainable functionally as well as environmentally.
Landfills are still not a perfect container for our waste with toxins accidentally and uncontrollably leeched into the
environment and is no longer considered state-of-the-art. Proper treatment and disposal of waste remains highly
challenging and often overwhelming for many municipalities. According to the International Energy Agency, waste
generation rates will more than double over the next twenty years in lower-income countries.
Pursuing current practices of landfilling have already taken a big toll on the environment and have reached
unsustainable limits that impede the proper functioning of the environment and the community. A Waste to Energy
technology will restructure both streams to function together in manner that solves the issues of waste disposal on one
hand and provides a relatively free energy source to provision electricity and sustain the increasing demand for power.
II. PROJECT TITLE
BIO-COMM’ERGY; A Waste-to-Energy Facility in the Payatas Sanitary Landfill

(Bio waste of community converted to energy)
III. PROJECT CONCEPT AND DESCRIPTION
The propose ‘Waste-to-Energy Facility’ promotes an architecture that can be woven back into the fabric of the
city facilitating the awareness of the relationship between sustainability, energy, consumption and community. The
energy plant reflects and expresses the metabolism of the community by recycling and redistributing the energy that it
produces from the waste of the community, back to the community. The intent is to design a system to be as independent
of the larger ‘grid of consumption’ as possible. The infrastructure of the facility encourages a community to transition
from ‘Down-cycling’ to becoming truly Eco-efficient.
A waste to energy facility that will not only repair the Municipal Solid Waste management stream, but can work towards
enhancing the quality of life of its surrounding area. It will be equipped with advanced technologies of valid alternative
to the current situation that could both help protect the environment and offer hybrid solutions to generate clean energy,
contribute to cities’ social and cultural activities, and protect wider urban atmospheres and microclimates.
A WTE facility that ties in landscape and public amenities to further the discussion of the place of architecture and
landscape architecture within industrial zones of a city. Urbanistically, the design looks to stitch the community and the
environment into a cohesive, accessible sequence of events. Architecturally, the design looks to provide moments in
which the realms of the public promenade and the trash promenade intertwine in interesting ways.
Transform a piece of infrastructure to one that becomes emblematic of civic institutions, one that garners trust in the
presence of the government in supporting people’s needs and as a mean to integrate it in the local community of the
city, enrich its potential, and become an educational tool to raise awareness around matters of waste management and
sustainability.
IV. PROJECT RATIONALE
Quezon City is projected to run out of waste disposal capacity at the Payatas landfill within 3 to 5 years and
sees a Waste-to-Energy facility as its most viable means of waste disposal thereafter. This creates a strong argument
for a project alternative, which minimizes less proven innovative features
-by means of using conventional technology. Such alternatives increase the chance of accelerated project development
cycles to financial close and construction completion – taking into account the urgent need for at least one long term
secure solid waste development asset for the city.
-by means of designing with the idea of fostering an inter-communication with nature and people, This also meant that
the design would rely heavily on the integration of Landscape and Architecture.
V. PROJECT SITE LOCATION
Quezon City, Philippines
VI. PROJECT COMPONENTS
The programs of the buildings examined include waste-to-energy plants, recycling, sorting, and composting
centers. Many of them link an aspect of public outreach to them, whether it be a visitor’s center, museum area, display
area, public promenade, or other public amenity.

Architecture Department Thesis Proposal: College of Architecture and Fine Arts

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Architecture Department Thesis Proposal: College of Architecture and Fine Arts

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Architecture Department Thesis Proposal: College of Architecture and Fine Arts

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Republic of the Philippines

EULOGIO “AMANG” RODRIGUEZ

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND FINE ARTS

TITLE : BIO-COMM’ERGY; A Waste-to-Energy Facility in the Payatas Sanitary Landfill

I. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

II. PROJECT TITLE

BIO-COMM’ERGY; A Waste-to-Energy Facility in the Payatas Sanitary Landfill

IV. PROJECT RATIONALE

V. PROJECT SITE LOCATION

Quezon City, Philippines

VI. PROJECT COMPONENTS

You might also like