Above the Pavement - the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture by Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, Winy Maas, Fritz Haeg

By Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, Winy Maas, Fritz Haeg

Forty years after French protestors took to the streets with the rallying cry Sous les pavs, los angeles plage! (Beneath the pavement, the beach!), a brand new type of radical expression took form at MoMA's P.S.1 courtyard in Queens, manhattan. Above the Pavement--the Farm! unearths the groundbreaking efforts of structure company WORKac and their staff of greater than a hundred and fifty collaborators--farmers, politicians, horticulturists, technicians, soil scientists, engineers, structure scholars, and artists--to create a operating city farm, hoisted 30 ft excessive, utilizing commercial cardboard tubes jam-packed with greater than 50 sorts of in the neighborhood grown vegatables and fruits. known as Public Farm 1 (P.F.1), this new breed of sustainable infrastructure, able to producing its personal strength, recycling rainwater, cultivating vegetation, and inspiring rest, verified that even the main impossibly utopian visions of eco-friendly urban dwelling are inside our reach.

Above the Pavement--the Farm! offers a tasty variety of principles and matters located on the intersection of structure, urbanism, and nutrition. that includes a full of life mlange of voices depicting the making of P.F.1--with contributions by way of artist and agricultural activist Fritz Haeg, architectural historian Meredith TenHoor, architect Winy Maas, and head chef Michael Anthony of recent York City's Gramercy Tavern--this ebook introduces a brand new period of ecological pondering and concrete sustenance.

Amale Andraos and Dan wooden are the founders of latest York City-based paintings structure Company. 

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The main problem, I saw, was that they had depicted the farm as viewed from the sky, but everybody was going to see it from the ground, so I suggested that they think about including plants that hung down— moonflower vines and other things. 1 vine in my garden, and at night it blossoms white flowers that reflect the light of the moon. They would then have a feature related to the night, because the party goes until dark. They were completely open to that. So that was really great. Sam Dufaux: Right after we won the competition, the article in the New York Times brought so many good people on board who were willing to help us, either to work on the project, to donate things, or just share ideas.

In the beginning, we could cut maybe two or three tubes a day, but at the end we were cutting ten tubes a day without any mistakes. Anna Kenoff: Art set up five or six assembly lines. As more and more volunteers showed up, they just kept adding stations. When they came off the cutting jig the tubes would go outside, where teams were constantly lacquering. Other jigs were set up to cut key blocks and 2x4s, drilling the holes where they needed to go. There were just piles of 2x4s all over the warehouse.

I read it and said, “Wow, this is everything we do. ” I immediately emailed WORKac, saying, “This sounds like a great project. ” The rest is history. Kate Chura: The Horticultural Society of New York runs the GreenHouse program on Rikers Island, where inmates learn to work with plants at our greenhouse and garden there. It’s more than vocational training; Rikers is a jail, not a prison, so people are there for short term. The ultimate goal is to redirect a change in behavior so that they can go back and be productive members of society.

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