Cynthia Hooper|Home|Interdisciplinary Projects|The Landfill Interpretive Transect (2001-2002)

I participated in the City of New York’s international landscape design competition Fresh Kills: Landfill to Landscape, a competition devoted to redesigning and eventually reclaiming the world’s largest landfill. I worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation (at the invitation of RIOS Architects of Los Angeles) to design an interpretive tourist trail that winds through the landfill and explores it’s varied infrastructure and dynamic internal processes. This Interpretive Transect features such highlights as gas, fluid, and temperature monitoring stations, along with an internal landfill viewing tunnel—where visitors can descend into the depths to view layers of trash through special viewing windows. This project is currently under consideration for inclusion in the Fresh Kills Lifescape project by Field Operations, winner of this competition.

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Front Cover	Introduction	Visitor Center
Vista Point	Gas Discharge	Leachate Discharge
Differential Settlement	Temperature Monitoring	Tunnel of Trash (Exterior)
Tunnel of Trash (Interior)	Additional Points of Interest	Conclusion