Urban Farming Manhattan
Project Date | May 1, 2009
This is a proposal for a rethinking of the island of Manhattan, from a re-imagined past of the island with a park network based on the current city plan. After researching large scale utopian/dystopian projects of Constant, Archigram, Archizoom, Yona Friedman, Cedric Price, and others, my project proposes an architectural vision of Manhattan, suggesting juxtapositions of agriculture and the city. The building’s skin is an aperiodic combination of off-the-shelf components of greenhouse glass, curtain wall, and multiple sizes and configurations of glass and metal louvres, to express the changing interior program while providing the required type of interior light.
City Network: Connection of Parks Midtown Zone
9th Ave & 32nd St.
Typical Section East/West Orientation
Typical Section North/South Orientation
7th Ave & 35th St
