Anaerobic Composting Plant

Anaerobic Composting Plant

AUS Pasini Ranieri as Architects

This innovative composting plant is plunged into the greenery of the Apennine valley of Rio Busca. Its anaerobic fermentation process is devised to recycle organic refuse into compost, a natural fertilizer for agricultural and gardening purposes, and utilize residual biogas for electricity production. The plant supplies the city of Cesena for up to 10% of its residential requirements. Looking up from downhill, the environmental impact of the complex, with a built surface of about 10,000 m2 scattered on an area of about 20,000 m2, is buffered by three distinct screening elements enveloping several diverse technical volumes: a high hedge of Photinia drawing a green circle around external control boxes, an angular buttress clad with close larch louvers up to the top containing the cellulosic stocks storages, a 10 m high semi-transparent curtain in stretched aluminum panes of varying module running all along the south and west fronts for a total length of 180 m, intended to dissolve the masses of the main processing buildings. The entrance to the office area and to the didactical precincts is located on the curved joint between the two fronts with an ironic zoomorphic corner solution with ‘oculi’ symmetrically disposed on both sides of the deep vertical passage. In the next years, the rambling Wisterias planted along the south front will climb the metal frames contributing to dissimulate the built cubages amid the foliage of Robinias in the valley.

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