The CUT/FILL project focused on a landscape architecture incorporating environment and science considerations. We worked with the Department of Energy, University of Kentucky, and College of Design (Rohrbacher’s studio). The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is located on the site in Paducah, Kentucky.
The studio group had been working on the landscape architecture aspect of this projects; however, our group developed a timeline that included our proposal for a method of eliminating toxic chemicals at the Paducah site. The soil contains uranium in the underground hydrogen by leaking from a building. The compound came from the gaseous diffusion plant, which was used to produce uranium during the 1950s.
The project involved determining how to use the cut/ fill method to solve the problem involving chemicals in the soils and underground hydrogen by using a specific filter system. Each of us had different proposals of the procedure with this project. My project put forth a proposal interrelated with the fill and concerned the soil after it was dug and before it was filtered with water. We wanted to avoid wasting soil so that we could reuse it. This proposal could be fulfilled in the area, or in the building, in coordination with the landscape architecture proposals showing the timeline history of that site from the procedure of our proposals from the beginning to the end of procedure.
Fall 2015, Gary Rohrbacher Studio, Group Project- Chris Westfall, TA; Erin Engler; Jennifer Harris; Jeremiah Hawkins; Christa Mueller; Barry Richarson, Eric Shockey; Julie Sniadowski; Sarah Wagner
TOXIC DIAGRAM- PADUCAH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT SITE
DIAGRAMS
INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL MODELS
CUT/ FILL- FUSION/ MILL MOVIE
For the group project, we wanted to develop a movie showing the technique of our various proposals from the beginning of the end. It included the digging and filling the timeline so that movie could be shown to customers who would be understand the process better. I was responsible for producing and editing the movie for the project along with our proposals. I used digital software such as AutoCAD, Grasshopper, Rhinoceros 3D, and the new software program Fusion 360 to show different angles and the timeline of the process using models. We wanted to examine and evolve a new method of demonstrating the process from beginning to end.
