In North America, industrial agriculture has led to cheap abundant food while separating
direct links between the city and countryside. This thesis attempts to use architecture
to reconnect people in Manhattan, New York City, with food production and serve as
a model for sustainability. The thesis analyzes Manhattan’s food network, and seeks a site
which has the potential for several factors: site accessibility, renewable resources, solar
exposure, and integration into the community. These factors serve as the basis in which
to build a hybrid prototype that is able to expose people to the process of food production
through a combination of traditional outdoor farming methods and indoor hydroponics in
the form of a vertical farm. Farmers and customers can be seen together as one entity
instead of two disconnected dependencies. The reintegration of food production into the
city can be seen as a re-alliance of the country and the city.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:NSHD.ca#10222/14577 |
| Date | 27 March 2012 |
| Creators | Ellis, Jon |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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