FoodLab Chicago

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FoodLab Chicago

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This visible site in a hip neighborhood is conceived as the center of a network of urban farms and distribution routes into adjacent food deserts. (A food desert is an urban area in which fresh food is not readily available: a major problem in low-income Chicago). The architecture is defined as an experimental culinary institute which perfects new methods of growing, preserving and serving foods which can be grown on or adjacent to the Bloomingdale Trail, an abandoned elevated rail which runs through the building. In order to increase visibility of the FoodLab's mission of increasing the availability of fresh food, the project is branded by an energy efficient distribution vehicle which circulates food from the Bloomingdale Trail growing area, through the Foodlab, and out into Chicago's food deserts. The project weaves student program and public program in a thickened ramp, which allows distribution vehicles to circulate on its upper surface. Modules which encompass research through cooking, hydroponic growing, and the public sampling of food also allow these vehicles to move through, dropping off and picking up food from these labs.

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FoodLab Chicago

FoodLab Chicago

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