ODD
 

	Ivy Landfill is a people-generated artificial landscape:  a re-creation that mimics the surrounding rolling hills of the Virginia countryside.
	However, these hills are surrealistic imposters made of trash and garbage.  THIS IS A PECULIAR PLACE!
	Current "End Plan" projections intend for Ivy Landfill to blend with it's surrounds.  The landfill cannot be dismissed that simply.  Minimally, Ivy Landfill will require long-term monitoring.  Treatment and containment measures should be employed.  The physical issues involved here include leachate seapage, gas accumulation / escape, groundwater erosion, and a resolution for the incoming waste.
	Currently the few constructed landfill systems atop these pseudo-hills provide clues to the ODDITY of this site (i.e. these two existing constructs for releasing methane gas).
	This design proposal involves exposing all landfill systems above the surface.  An example of an engineered landfill system (the collection of methane gas) is shown here.    The nature of what is within the landfill cell below ground dictates the constructs sited above the surface.
	The physical landfill system components of methane gas collection . . .
	. . . stormwater control, phytoremediation. . .
	. . . leachate collection and treatment, define space on these strange landforms.                                              (click image to see the 3 systems)
	Hyper/heightened spatial variation results from layering and juxtaposing these utilitarian systems over the dumpscape.                                                                 (click image to see each layer)
	Natural systems evoke the sense of this place as a part of the rural countryside.  The natural elements of water, vegetation, wind, and sun were present pre-dump, and they continue to be forces today.  The cells occupy 75 acres of this 300 acre site. Over this area of valleys, heights, glades, and expanses, streams flow and moisten, dense woods encroach, crispy grass disperses, the sun warms, the wind sweeps.
	The engineered sysems and the nature of the place (inclusive of dump and non-dump regions) are enmeshed.   A wonderfully intriguing genius loci has evolved, as a result of having created the landfill.  This is an impetus that encourages a fantastic new landscape that is unlike any other.  The conception for this new landscape design could only be realized through the existence of the landfill.  This landfill provides a great opportunity!
	A conception for a new landscape:  A NEW SENSE OF A NEW PLACE!
	The mechanical and natural elements are modified and restructured to overlap, avoid, mesh, twist, disperse, interlock, and more!  These manipulations create new spatial relationships across the landforms of the dump which reveal the differences and the similarities of this dumpscape to the vernacular of the greater region.    This ODD place is revealed via these new spaces.
	The Ivy Landfill is a physical tableau for summoning difference, while acknowledging normalcy.  For example, this site encompasses peculiar landforms yet also envelops wooded stream beds.  The contrasts and the similarities heighten the occupant's sense of this place. The sections shown here exemplify various juxtaposing and interweaving territories. . ..                                       (click on image for section explainations)
	. . . the crispy dry south-facing slopes (covered in phytoremediation grass) with modified slurry wall / water channels / methane collectors. ...
	. . . the rocky mounds that abut differently constructed water channels leading to a valley...
	. . . the shrubby growth that hides and exposes other alternatively-designed methane outposts ...
	. . . the damp and dense woodlands that edge the remediation ponds.
	The dumpscape becomes a place of varied experiences ranging from the close/intimate to the vast/open.   It is a landscape for occupation.  THE SPACES HAVE BEEN CREATED...                                                                      (click on image to see additional views)
	...LET THE GAMES BEGIN!    People will recreate on this trash-based landscape.  Ivy Landfill is a place for FANTASTIC activities.  No ordinary soccer fields here.   This is a place for the unusual:  Paintballers cross the shrubby cell...
	model airplane enthusiasts (using methane pipes as runways) atop the former Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) cell,
	monitor-trail traversers tthrough the wooded land (where the dump meets the neighboring region),
	model sail-boaters sailing on remediation basins,
	rappellers over Construction & Demolition Debris (CDD) "rockpile" walls,  extreme skateboarders along the groundwater collectors constructed of glassphalt,
	mountain bikers and trailblazers following water retention weirs,
	gardeners within the winrows of composted brush/leaf debris, and more!
	These peculiar spaces, defined by modified landfill systems, are opportunities for yet-to-be-determined activity. An odd reciprocity is revealed as activities are paired (tripled? quadrupled? zeroed?) with systematically-organized space. . .  over the "hill". . .
	near the "pond". . .
	along the "wall".                                            (click on image to see all activity/space's)
	PROJECTION:  this landscape of flux will integrate future landfill technologies.  Innovative systems, with their structuring elements, will disallow former activity and encourage new activity.  Eventually the waste will be no more, yet these odd artifacts will remain viable.   IVY LANDFILL AS ASSET:   the dump is a site for a wondrous new landscape (that could only be realized at a landfill).  The solutions for landfill management allow an impetus for a never-before-experienced park.   Ivy Landfill is an opportunity for WONDER!