The tertiary area’s new recycling hubs will be next to the University of Otago’s Marsh Study Centre in Castle St, and on the corner of St David and Forth Sts. They will be in use from late March.
They were designed for the council by four Otago Polytechnic bachelor of architectural studies students, who have received an award for their work.
Freyja Munro, Leon Frommann, Georgia Wilkinson and Chunhui (Lance) Wang were last week presented with Dunedin City Council Emerging Architecture Awards.
They received $500 towards their course fees.
The awards were presented during the official opening of detail, the architectural studies graduate exhibition.
Their work was selected by a panel of representatives from the council, the polytech, architecture firm .everyday, and contractor Ahika Consulting.
The designs were developed as part of their course work and were their response to a council design brief. The council wanted designs that were complementary to the area, user-friendly, imaginative and attractive.
They also needed to be accessible, stimulate positive waste minimisation and recycling messaging, and have a community noticeboard.
Council waste minimisation officer Leigh McKenzie said it was great to see the students’ fresh ideas.
"The students thought outside the box when approaching the brief and came up with some innovative ideas which were used as the basis for the final design.’’
Architectural Studies lecturer and .everyday director Campbell McNeill said the projects allowed students to explore beyond obvious notions of sustainability.
"For example, we dove into the concept of ‘regenerative development’, a process which helped guide the students to understand layers of social, ecological and economic contexts of the two sites and the wider city.
"A selection of the students’ ideas are proving happily persistent through the design and build process.
"The process shows that understanding a project’s unique socio-ecological context can produce architecture that goes beyond a static design object and positively effect a greater ecosystem.’’
The students understood the tertiary area had a higher residential density than other parts of the city, which meant they often had more recycling than could fit in their bins.
The council will trial the hubs alongside the collection service. It has already trialled hubs in Moray Pl and Vogel St.
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We'll be watching these installations with interest. I really enjoy seeing how our younger residents of the city can solve some serious problems when they have the right facilities and the right guidance to do so. My only critisism would be that should these recycling installations be successful, I would like to see these students have their tertiary fees fully paid for. For one reason only, in that usually we would have paid a 'consultant', a group of 'managers', and an over costed 'contract to supply' to get a lesser result. Keep up the good work young folk.