TANK WORLDS

Frederic Darbouz & Stephanie Khoury

Tank Worlds : Port Hope Harbour
U-92

The bulk of Canada's historic waste dating back to the 1930s can be found at Port Hopes outlet point between the Harbour and Lake Ontario. U-92, the atomic number for uranium, is a proposed intervention located at this outlet intended to remediate it over a series of phases. The project explores ideas of diffusion and filtration as means to remediate contaminated water and land in the Port Hope Harbor and surrounding shore. The design proposes a water filtration system through a series of filtration towers that feed a pool floating on the lake. Off-shore turbines generate electricity from the lake’s harsh winds. The site also includes a recovered wetland, public plaza, and tree growing pods, all of which enhance the activity on-site while connecting the community to its Port again.

The project operates in phases. Following the extraction of contaminated soil and sediment in the Port by the Port Hope Area Initiative, the first phase of construction involves implementing infrastructures like the wind turbines, water filtration towers, and the inflatable flood barrier system. A second phase includes surfacing like landscape, observation platforms, wetland, and parking areas. The final phase involves larger-scale construction including building a new marketplace, rental shop, garden, exhibition space, and port amenities.