The Metaphor
The painting “tree of houses” by Paul Klee is the image for tree preserves energy to produce food to nurture people inhabited in the neighborhood.
This explains how urban agriculture center in providence serves as a place for people growing their own food, learning new acqaponic techniques, and exchange ideas& foods.
The break
RI 6 runs across the neighborhood and divides it to residential and industrial area. UAC here as the extension of the place for people to live, will carry the urban fabrics and bring the familiarity in the originally old textile mill.
The density
The tree is defined by aquaponics planting beds, circulation, and void space for light go through. Punitively, the numbers of trees will gradually be reduces toward north as it face the industrial areas. By section, the roof with photovoltaic cell attached on clear glass will be tilted toward south to get direct sunlight. The density of PV cells gradually increased toward north. Because the south part of the building is denser of plating beds, and need more sunlight.
Programmatically, there will be more traffic toward south with functions such as, market, public food production (witch you can rent your own planting beds) café’, while the north part will be more industrial and less traffic for compost, private office and warm cast.
To make the south façade as a new gesture for public, there’ s a new staircase with exterior growing beds lead people from parking lot directly to their own planting beds in 2F and 3F. It is also an open-air market feature with swing doors that can unfold to become table, bench, and shade during a hot summer day.
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