Buried deep beneath London’s streets is a disused rail system like no other. This complex network provides a vital dissemination link across 6 miles of London. What once was a key logistics network for the Royal Mail is now a derelict and uninhibited labyrinth for urban explorers and the odd rail devotee. Dis.Assemble will provide a subterranean Industrial waste facility: its sole intention to Dis.Assemble materials produced by the metropolis above.
Dis.Assemble provides London’s ever changing skyline with a reprocessing unit with the ability to replenish the city by converting disused materials back into useful construction supplies. Utilising gravity, Dis.Assemble will pulverize, blast and separate materials into silos for dispersal via ‘coffins’: the vernacular term for the rail mail wagons.
  Breakdown and itemisation of skyscrapers is problematic especially within a busy metropolis, with any wrong move potentially catastrophic. For example a single tower of the World Trade Centre U.S.A.  consists of 90,000,000kg (100,000 tons) of steel, 160,000 cubic meters (212,500 cubic yards) of concrete and 21,800 windows. This material was filtered and distributed away from site via trucks and Lorries. With this amount of material now disused and discarded, Dis.Assemble poses the question “why not reintroduce some of the material back into the city?”
In London the newly built ‘Shard’ skyscraper, which opened this year uses 95% recycled construction material with 20% of all the steelwork from recycled sources.
Magnetic separation is used in almost every processing industry to remove ferrous and Para-magnetic contamination from process lines, preventing product contamination and damage to machinery. Other parts of the process include Pulverization, static separation, shredders, screw conveyors and sterilization.
So, it can be seen that although the Dis.Assemble. process is not new in itself, employing a range of proven technologies, it is a radical repositioning of the normally peripherally located facilities into an integrated whole in the heart of the city, minimising supply lines and furnishing materiel to distribution centers along the existing disused rail network with minimal urban impact.