Fall 2014, UC Berkeley | Instructor: Nicholas de Monchaux, Mark Anderson, Laci Videmsky, Mark Smout
Collaborator: Brooke Jones Candrian
Mission:
We participate as advocates to restore and remediate the acts of hill removal in the Bay Area.
method
We recycle the Bay's Industrial and military waste into new landforms; borrowing from historical precedent, we engineer mountains using equipment and machinery from the Bay's historic military-industrial complex. Military aircraft are deployed to lift and place recycled fill and formwork for the reconstructed urban mountain. Geotextiles are flown in to cap and structure the landform. For our demonstration project located at the Richmond Field station, a heliport is used to transport "hill seeds" to nearby sites that will grow and fertilize the surrounding landscape with future urban mountains.
features
Specific strategies include a bird habitat and veterans housing. The Richmond Mountain also houses programs such as a community center, spaces for academic research and development, and recreational facilities.
Our mountain is in proximity with the Albany Hill, one of the few remaining natural hills in the East Bay.
Map showing scheduled bombing and process of backfilling and stabilizing urban mountains.
Proposed programs
Site identification
A museum and exhibition is created by the overlapping and interlocking of the military wastes.
The engineered mountain is very close to the Albany Hills
Battleship turns into veteran's house.
