Mc Br Es- “Mc-Breeze”
This project aims to remediate the Heat Island effect in New York City by deploying an Oyster and micro-Algae Ecological System into the environment, providing cleaner air, through a CO2 absorption and bioremediation process of the Algae. Through lower CO2 levels and evaporative cooling, Micro-climate will be formed around each food cart and around the commissary.
This project also aims to clean and utilize the Hudson river shed to grow and produce oysters and algae for human consumption. To do this, water bioremediation treatment occurs to remove PCBs through algae consumption, then is passed through pressurized barriers to the oyster habitats where sediment and further organic material is remove, finally passing back out into the Hudson water shed as fully cleaned water.
*RPI Graduate Research Symposium Project
SITE: Hudson River, 34th St. Manhattan, NY
PROFESSOR: Erik Churchill
YEAR: Fall 2017
COURSE: Graduate Design Studio 5 (CASE/NYC)
*Selected for Accreditation
Micro-climate Bioremediation Ecological System
