DUMPSTER “DIVER” CHRONICLES CONSTRUCTION WASTE
Submitted by Jessica Woolliams on Fri, 28/07/2006 - 11:20.
This from Green Clips
In the past three years, Wes Janz, associate professor in the Department of Architecture at Ball State University, has photographed 250 construction site dumpsters mostly in around Indianapolis, and eventually including examples from as far as Helsinki, and Estonia. One year ago his students photographed 250 more. Together they found walls and sections of walls, doors, windows, carpeting, carpet pads, trusses, shingles, building paper, timber and steel framing stock, sheets of plywood, sheetrock, and oriented strand board.
Janz characterizes the flow of waste from construction sites as relentless; the transfer, a mad ballet; the destination, toxic. Janz presented his full findings in a paper entitled “Sustaining Sustenance through Everyday Living,” first published last year in the proceedings of an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference. Janz has included some of the photographs at his website, but admits he is done photographing dumpsters.
Architecture, Jun 06, p. 65, by Wes Janz.
