The project is trying to give an exploration on the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill post-closure redevelopment. Trying to jump out of the traditional boundary of dealing with landfill end use, this design is more focused on transferring the site to a critique of people's current life style. Given the effect that Americans produce over 160 million tons of solid waste each year and eighty percent of US solid waste ends up in landfills, 1/3 of which are expected to reach capacity in the next five years; it is urgent and necessary for people to contemplate their daily consumption and the damage to our living environment. The strategy here is trying to make use of the methane that are produced by the big landfill machine to heat the site for creating a microclimate that tropical plants can adapt to. The importance of the giant canyon is not about those visually attracting tropical plants, but the scale, at which people would feel the stress produced by the high rigid and cold stone walls. Although it is good for central Ohio to have its first mountain which could add something unusual to this pretty flat topography, it's still somewhat ironic for this goal to be achieved by a trash mountain. Beside, as a public space dedicated to provide necessary functions, people could still enjoy plenty of fun stuffs here, including the large area of shrub fields and experience the vivid sculpture wave topography.
