According to a recent United Nations (UN) report, Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, has a rnpopulation of 4,794,000. Addis Ababa is home to 25% of Ethiopiaâ€™s urban population and is one rnof the fastest growing cities in Africa. The rate of human consumption is rapidly transforming rnour planetâ€™s biomass into human-made mass, which includes more trash, and Addis Ababa is rnestimated to generate 2 million tons of trash a year. Each person generates about 0.45 kg of waste rnper day.rnAddis Ababaâ€™s waste managment currently exists as a linear process: trash flows from high density cities to sprawling landscapes of waste, which is Koshe. However, as cities grow and rnbecome more dense, critical systems of waste infrastructure must be re-evaluated. Instead of rntodayâ€™s isolated and linear processes, urban and waste ecologies can become an interconnected rnand cyclical system. Current practices call for industrial processes to be pushed to the periphery rnof cities, thereby severing the relationship between the urban environment inhabited by humans rnand the one that is required to support the way humans live. If architects and designers become rnengaged in the conversation of waste management and other industrial processes that support the rndemands generated by cities, they can begin to repair the physical and mental separation of waste rnand public activity, while also introducing cultural, economic, and environmental value in waste rninfrastructure. This thesis was designed to be a provocative approach to contemplating waste and rnwaste management.