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Regional Dolomitic Lime Industry Facilitation and Upliftment Center

Part 1 Project 2023
Sanggavi Hirushi Thomas
City School of Architecture | Sri Lanka
In recent years, the Dolomitic limestone mining industry of Sri Lanka has stagnated, battling against the crisis that depends on energy. This issue can be resolved by, “Humanizing energy”, in which a concept of adaptive Reuse of wasted energy from the industry's process itself can be reused for the betterment of the industry. The project focuses on the concept of “Adaptive Re-Use” in terms of the Dolomitic lime industry, energy, and context.

Thereby the conceptual approach is generated from the major aspects of this project, Functions of the Dolomitic Lime Industry, energy, and the context to, "Converge to form an experiential sustenance amidst the dilemma, for the Dolomitic lime industry to self-sustain by the aspect of RE-USE”.

This project tries to achieve the target to start small-scale income-generating avenues from waste energy from the Dolomitic lime industry, to be carried out at a community level, through the convergence of what is left behind to create something new, giving hope for the future.

In conclusion, the project, aims to empower the Dolomitic Lime industry through Humanizing energy in the process of their industry, to uplift their living standard giving them avenues to build up to after the major loss that took place after the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Sanggavi Hirushi Thomas

Tutor(s)
Nandaka Jayasinghe
2023
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