Spring 2017 - Graduate Thesis Studio

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This is an on-going graduate thesis process to come to a reasonable conclusion in May 2017.

This project revolves around the theory that the adaptive modularity of urban agriculture can become a catalyst for engaging and enriching the public through a built installation. This project specifically begins to analyze the lack of reliable and fresh produce available to residents in poorly developed neighborhoods along the main thoroughfare of North Tryon in Charlotte.

An Urban Agricultural Hub is to be implemented at the site of the existing, but soon to be relocated, Amtrak Train Station on N. Tryon. The hub will yield industrial sized portions of fresh produce and protein through urban farming and will be the center of a new network of modular train cars that will carry fresh food out into the surrounding communities on a weekly basis.

The following site analysis and diagrams illustrate areas of need and intersections of viable  infrastructure. The accompanying collages demonstrate possible iterations of these growing modules.