Thursday, August 20, 2009
Art / News Green Hero of the Week: ReBurbia and The Crazy Dream of McMansions Turned into Biofilter Water Treatment Plants
Posted by Mark Asch on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Many of the notable entries and finalists dealt with abandoned big-box stores; my personal favorite, which came in third, is a fairly straightforward plan to tear the roof off those suckers and turn the interior into a greenhouse and renewable energy generator, with a farm in the parking lot. This is appealingly close to some things that are actually being done currently with empty big-boxes — well, when they're not being converted to mega-churches — and seems at least as feasible and elegant as the winner (pictured), a plan to give over McMansions to wild growth, flooding them, and using them as water treatment plants.
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