Live Share Grow is a project shaped for a location in San Diego by Brandon Martella's studio, the concept is addressing inevitably upcoming food resource problems.
Live Share Grow tower
Live Share Grow is a project shaped for a location in San Diego by Brandon Martella's studio, the concept is addressing inevitably upcoming food resource problems.
From the Architect:
Food as a resource is depleting.
Supply is soon to not meet demand. With population growth, food
production in the United States is reaching maximum capacity. Our cities
need to address this critical issue with an architecture that responds.
A new type of residential tower needs to come forth. Utilizing vertical
farming, a new model of living can be tested and resolved in a dense
vertical community. From farm to market from community to education lets
live, leran, and grow within our city.
Farm tower is located in a vertical community of tourist resources
and developer condos divided by a public promenade. The new tower aims
at activating a dead corridor that is underutilized and keying in to an
international audience with a daily influx of travelers utilizing the
strand of tourist attractions located along the waterfront. The
adjacent Children Museum and its motto of Think, Play, Create will be
embraced with a second motto of Live, Grow, Share to foster a new level
of social interface.
The open air market will become a place for local vendors to sell an
assortment of products along with fresh produce grown in the farm tower
and direct vicinity of San Diego's urban center. The market will become
a specimen of culture that dramatically contrasts the a-typical
American means of consumption and commerce, an apparatus enriched with a
sense of local, and a place for the community to gather.
As the 24th largest convention center in North America, the giant
wall blocking San Diego from its southern waterfront brings in an
estimated 1.4 billion annually to the local community. It is an
economic powerhouse and is expanding with a 3rd annex. The sites direct
adjacency will enable the farm tower to become a spectacle as this
opportunity is not overlooked and a high level of activity will be
harnessed.
The critical moment with farm tower comes to life with a social
exchange of farmer and resident. Ten stories above the surrounding
community a 100' void space in the farming's southern exposure brings
the residential user group out from their usual circulation space to
create a critical moment of exchange. Educational tours can come up
from the street level to experience the city and the farm firsthand.
Project: Live Share Grow
Designed by Brandon Martella
Location: San Diego, USA
Website: www.brandonmartella.net
Article by: Architecture Design
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