The Green Gas Station
The section of Route 117 stretching from Providence to Route 2 in Warwick has 25 gas stations. Of these 25 gas stations 16 of them are Lust sites. Lust sites are categorized by the DEM to have leaking underground storage tanks, be it in the past or present. Many engineers, law makers and cities have worked hard to help stabilize this problem. In Rhode Island many steps have been made to stop underground pollutants from getting in to the water but what about the above ground pollutants. Above ground pollutants can be anything from leaking cars to gasoline that drips when removing the nozzle from your car. When rain hits these surfaces the pollutants are washed into the gutters mixing them with the runoff and eventually bringing them into the ground polluting soils in their path.
I am proposing a gas station that collects and filters these pollutants while making the user aware. This can occur through the use of new technologies, organization of parts, and purposeful moves through a series of layers that work together making one large collective system. This gas station will be made from a kit of parts that can be placed anywhere, a universal green gas station.
Comments
Courtney,
Your writing shows a good understanding of the site and the issues surrounding the gas station. It is concise and follows a logical sequence.
The graphic, however, doesn't really excite me about the station. The layering diagram in the lower left is new and interesting, but the logic applied in the remaining graphics is weak. As we discussed in your review, the turning diagram is best used as inspiration, not fact. I would like to see a visioning of the station. What has been done in the past? How does that relate to our fixation on the automobile and personal mobility? How will your station point the way for a new aesthetic and relationship with gasoline? As fuel becomes more scarce, will the vision become closer to one portrayed in the movie Mad Max, or will we find a positive vision and a new relaitonship?
I think that answering these questions will push you to the next level and help you to fix form to the station.
Posted by: Jonathan Harris | October 31, 2006 1:47 PM