D.I.R.T.
D.I.R.T. (Dump It Right There) Studio ( http://www.dirtstudio.com) is a landscape design firm that specializes in design on former industrial sites. Though their website is a bit lacking in good photos, I felt that it might be worth looking at for some of the folks in out studio who are using such sites for their microhouses. They try to make use of the crumbling infrastructure that remains when these industrial sites fall in to disuse.
From their site:
"We are surrounded with detritus left by two centuries of industry. Mines and factories relentlessly churn out raw materials and products making our country rich and powerful. It’s taken an environmental crisis for us to finally face all the nasty by-products -- dumped in the river, or in a landfill, or just out back.
D.I.R.T. studio recognizes the charge to transform this crisis into an opportunity, to sculpt this detritus into dialectical places. ‘Waste’ becomes the design fodder for the future. We feel obligated, and better yet, inspired to remake vast trashed sites into renewed landscapes of ecological and cultural production. We’re not talking about clean-up or make-up jobs. We mean truly regenerative sites -- buildings and landscapes -- producing all the stuff we need along with clean air, clean water, and clean dirt. With the technologies of an industrial ecology, we can make places that invite generations still hard at work to reinvest in the landscape around them."
I find their outlook the be a bit refreshing. They are simply realizing that the history of the industrial landscape can be just as valid as the history of any other site typology.
posted by clintor @ 1:33 PM
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