PDGP STUDIO
Atomic Cities - College of Design
The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant was built during the Cold War to enrich uranium, and has been doing so for over 60 years. Over many years the plant had been contaminating the groundwater & aquifer to total five mile long plume. In 2010, the Department of Energy approached the University of Kentucky College of Design to help visualize the contaminants. This partnership began with model making and continued for three semesters to include strategic planning, remediation techniques and future solutions for the plant post decommission. For an overview of partnership and project click here.
The Paducah+ Team, a part of the Atomic Cities Research Group, investigated the current status of Paducah & 8 cities with similar contamination. By creating a network of cities, solutions were proposed by learning and growing each community based on the knowledge of the others.
This project, a part of Univeristy of Kentucky's River Cities Project was featured at the 2012 International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. For other work shown at IABR here.
Studio: Gary Rohrbacher - 2011
Deliverables: In collaboration with Marc Gannon, Anne Shawb & Carrie Wahl. Research, stargetic planning, graphic design & motion graphics animation.
5TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM - COLLEGE OF DESIGN
As a studio part of the University of Kentucky's College of Design's River Cities Project, work from the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant / Atomic City Studio was shown during the 5th IABR at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam.
"The Paducah Project took on the tremendous challenge of developing a one hundred and fifty year plan for Kentucky's Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PDGP). The PGDP once provided thousands of high-paying jobs, which have diminished over the years and will soon be eliminated upon the plants closure. Rather than see these numerous problems as cause for the region's demise, the students looked at the problem as the solution. The studio proposed a new economy generated by the complex process of cleaning up the site." - UK College of Design
More information on the PGDP Project & IABR Exhibition
PROFESSOR: GARY ROHRBACHER
DELIVERABLES: 3 MOTION GRAPHICS ANIMATIONS SHOWCASING STUDENT WORK
