“Where Do We Go From Here?”
- Rethinking the Silo

Whenever I bike by those grain silos alongside Lachine canal in Montreal, I cannot help but stop and appreciate them for a while. I am always struck by those silos’ crude structural beauty, but at the same time, troubled by the fact that most of them are in deteriorated state and have been abandoned since 1970s. Montreal has a deep-rooted industrial heritage. The grain silo became a symbol of that pinnacle era. However, these abandoned silos pose negative impact to the environment, contaminate the soil with its residue.

Read through the Montreal Sustainable Plan 2016-2020 and TURCOT Development Plan, I understood the city of Montreal has a vision of investing into the green technology sector and TURCOT region plans on fostering its local economy by developing a system of employment and commerce for and by the community. Combining these two points, I did an independant study to propose a potential architectural solution for the abandoned silo. The main idea is to repurpose the machinery as a energy-waste circular system to achieve zero carbon emission.