MARGINAL MEASURES
Fall 2023
Core III Studio
Littoral Landscapes at Work
Danielle Choi
The project operates in the shifting margins of Rumney Marsh, MA: between landfill and marsh, between marsh and residences. Thinned by decades of advancing development, these margins face erasure by rising seas, imperiling a buffer that filters runoff, slows erosion, and provides critical habitat. The proposal converts food and yard waste — the most incinterated feedstocks at the previous WIN Waste Facility — into electricity and compost through a process of anaerobic digestion and compositing. Compost is directed to flood-prone neighborhoods to buffer their shores, while subsidies generated through biogas production lowers energy costs for participating residents, spurring local buy-in.