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Existing Conditions: Ivy Landfill -1997
Ivy landfill has been operating since 1970 in a previously wooded
site which has been incrementally developed resulting in an immense clearing
surrounded by an increasingly thin buffer of undisturbed land. The
existing cells are in various conditions including lined and capped cells
(seen in yellow-orange), unlined cells in both capped and uncapped conditions
(seen in orange), construction debris cells (in grey-brown, to the right
of the plan), a borrow pit at the southernmost tip, and a new cell which
is currently being prepared for dumping by the blasting of bedrock. These
cells have operated through changing legislation to which they have not
been held entirely accountable, resulting in contamination of the ground
water, streams, and the surrounding soil. Landfill gas that is collected
at this time is filtered to remove odor-producing organic compounds; the
methane, however, is released into the air.
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Phase 1: Establishment of Infrastructure and Perimeter Path
1998-2010
The first phase of the project is to close the landfill, stabilize
the site through remediation infrastructure,
and to introduce occupation to the site to witness these processes.
The waste previously accepted at Ivy will be rerouted to Richmond landfills
which currently practice state of the art technology.
The infrastructural systems will tie into existing systems in Charlottesville
and Albemarle county and will include leachate collection and treatment;
slurry walls and ground water wells to collect and treat contaminated ground
water; and methane piping, collection, and treatment in the cells which
contain municipal solid waste. Extensive planting will aid management
of storm water runoff and filtration and act as phytoremediation.
These systems of technology and planting are designed to anticipate their
future use as framework, foundation, and spatial organization for the concert
grounds.
There will be a perimeter circuit path
around the site through the previously undisturbed areas to witness the
landfill through its transformation.
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Phase 2: Transformation of Infrastructure and Event Grounds
2010-
With the stabilizing systems for remediation finally in place,
the site of Ivy landfill will be ready to accept large scale occupation
as a concert grounds. The return on
investments made for infrastructure will be realized as the site becomes
a destination hosting large events. The systems serve as both spatial
organization and the foundation for transient structures related to events
held at the site. As the production of contaminants diminishes over time,
the permanent elements of the infrastructure will serve as the framework
for the development of performance spaces. At the same time, composted
soil created at the site will be used to recontour and refine the event
spaces. The site will continue to be occupied at two scales: the individual
who hikes the perimeter path, and the crowds which fill the amphitheaters
created in the once empty center clearing.
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