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Program:A composting facility with an educational center for the City of Chicago.
Site:An existing 5.85 acre industrial lot on the west side of Chicago, formerly known as the Northwest Incinerator.
Process:In response to the complex program requisites, I initiated investigations into sustainable built forms in the heart of a contemporary American city. I explored the integration of urban agriculture and productive landscapes, not only to our brownfield site, but also integrating communities across Chicago. The resulting concept of Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes surged as the guiding principle behind the final design.
Solution:The proposed site would act together within a network of inter-connecting existing parcels of open lands, parks, playing fields, brownfield sites, underused green spaces, and public gardens through a slim continuous walking landscape. The productive urban landscape aspect of my proposed network of planted green spaces is agriculture that occurs within the city. The site itself is to be transformed into an agricultural center, where the community can plant and grow their own fruits and vegetables in greenhouses and hoophouses. Visually, the site plan is to suggest the interconnection of different geometries (gardens, growing fields, greenhouses, buildings and topography), into a woven urban ecology that will continue to weave through the city. This project is to provide a future outlook for a "greener" Chicago.
Site:An existing 5.85 acre industrial lot on the west side of Chicago, formerly known as the Northwest Incinerator.
Process:In response to the complex program requisites, I initiated investigations into sustainable built forms in the heart of a contemporary American city. I explored the integration of urban agriculture and productive landscapes, not only to our brownfield site, but also integrating communities across Chicago. The resulting concept of Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes surged as the guiding principle behind the final design.
Solution:The proposed site would act together within a network of inter-connecting existing parcels of open lands, parks, playing fields, brownfield sites, underused green spaces, and public gardens through a slim continuous walking landscape. The productive urban landscape aspect of my proposed network of planted green spaces is agriculture that occurs within the city. The site itself is to be transformed into an agricultural center, where the community can plant and grow their own fruits and vegetables in greenhouses and hoophouses. Visually, the site plan is to suggest the interconnection of different geometries (gardens, growing fields, greenhouses, buildings and topography), into a woven urban ecology that will continue to weave through the city. This project is to provide a future outlook for a "greener" Chicago.
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