Editors’ Choice

2020 Skyscraper Competition
Yilei Nie, Xibeini Luo, Bo Gao, Huan Wang

China

BACKGROUND

Beyond the landfills and trash heaps moldering in almost every town and city across the globe, manmade garbage has found its way into the natural landscape on a mind-boggling scale. It seems as though there are virtually no places left on Earth free of our rubbish. Junk can be found everywhere from the bellies of animals and the tissues of our own bodies to the world?s vast oceans. We are in a recycling system with other living things.  As Marine garbage producers, we are bringing disasters to other living things and gradually destroying our own lives.  What we throw away is gradually returning to us. It is urgent to improve the Marine environment and recycle Marine litter. CONCEPT

The plastic trash floating in the ocean is not stationary. Instead, it keeps moving with ocean currents. If it is just point-to-point fishing, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. We conceived a building that could move continuously with ocean currents. It uses ocean currents to collect trash and turn it into other harmless materials as it travels.
Collection–Use of ocean currents

Collecting garbage is the most important step toward solving the problem of Marine garbage, which we already know forms garbage patches on the surface of the ocean due to ocean currents. The device like a fishing net, using ocean currents to catch floating Marine plastic debris.  ...