ILLINOIS

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
First Place - $1200

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Stewart HICKS, Allison NEWMEYER of DESIGN WITH COMPANY with Joseph ALTSHULER: Fin’s Labyrinth is an architecture and urban strategy that encourages you to play with your food. Both a working fish farm and a new form of public (civic) amenity, this project uses the infrastructure for raising fish as a backdrop to a wide range of activities designed to entertain you while getting you acquainted with your next meal. It reintroduces the production of food into the daily lives of city dwellers, making a more concrete connection between what we put in our mouths and the environment required to generate it.

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London, UNITED KINGDOM

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Second Place - $800

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Darrick BOROWSKI / Jeroen JANSSEN / Nicoletta POULIMENI : Edible Infrastructures: Seed for A City
We propose a neighborhood to serve as a Center for Urban Farming for Brooklyn and the greater New York City region. This new neighborhood type is organized around edible infrastructures, a systems-based approach to the food production, distribution, consumption and waste cycles.

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san luis obispo/pittsburgh

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Third Place - $300

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mason HAYES + richman NEUMANN: FarmvilleNYC represents a new way of thinking about community, garden, and the intersection of the two terms in the digital age. FVNYC evolved from a fundamental desire to maximize farming efficiency - faced with the question of “build on the ground or build up”, we answered “build everywhere, by recruiting every New Yorker”.

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vienna AUSTRIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

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luis daniel pozo TORRES: By giving to project the right orientation, and developing the surfaces in a way that the most gets exposed to the solar irradiation, both light and solar energy are being collected . The perforations of the floors are oriented so that the light can penetrate the interior minimizing the use of electric energy during the day. Meanwhile the outer skin works as a translucent shell that maintains during the entire year an interior climate conditions proper for farming.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

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jorge E. MUTIS : Recently the concept of urban farming has gained a well deserved amount of popularity. While consciousness is no longer an obstacle, the reality is that city centers are not designed to accommodate such ideals. This proposal investigates the potential of using inflatable structures to begin to occupy places we couldn’t before. The idea was to research the possibility of lunching theme up into the sky. Instead of using air as their structural material, helium would enable these structures to lift and float above the ground.

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vienna AUSTRIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

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Nikolay Hristov Ivanov: Fiber Garden is generating a micro cilmate (for the Scientific Research Center) on the base of urban farming through natural patterns. The main concept is emergence of three interrelated layers: skin – solar panels, skeleton – sprinkling/watering system and the green layer - plants. The generated pattern is based on the sun direction and allows the distributed solar panels to collect and transform sun energy. It also keeps a certain level of porosity to allow enough natural light to get indoors for the plants layer.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

team: Palette Architecture LLC, Peter Miller, John Sunwoo, Jeff Wandersman

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Palette Architecture: C.H.E.F. CSA is a repurposing of agricultural production to provide a novel connection to food that fits within the distinct economic and cultural patterns of New York City life. Rather than simply architecturalizing farming within the constraints of an already built environment, the C.H.E.F. CSA is primarily a single-source service provider that allows city dwellers access to high-efficiency farming that is fully customized to gourmet trends and individual tastes; hallmarks of urban culinary traditions.

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