ELABORATION I
GROW COLLECTIVE Grow Collective: Architectural Interventions in Urban Agriculture is the third in a series of six core design studios that immerse students in the fundamental principles of architectural design. This studio elaborates on these architectural fundamentals by exploring spatial responses to the increased presence of urban agriculture in post-industrial cities. Grow Collective encourages students to consider how architecture participates in the ecological, infrastructural and social systems operating in our cities today. The studio explores the relationship between thinking and doing in three projects framed by four guiding themes: enclosure, systems, making and collaboration. For the first project, teams of five students design and build a hoop house for the Edible Garden at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Utilizing a highly constrained material palate, students create a functional greenhouse for a garden bed that extends the Pittsburgh growing season into the winter. Projects are developed through modeling, prototyping and construction drawings. Students build and install their final hoop houses at Phipps. The second studio project asks students to leverage architectural design to advocate for new modes of food growth, distribution and education in Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Through the design of The Grow Collective Center for Urban Agriculture, a new piece of public infrastructure that serves as a hub supporting urban gardening and farming activity in Pittsburgh, students work with an array of constraints, material affordances and client preferences to move beyond mere problem solving and consider how building and landscape interact and shape an urban neighborhood.
INSTRUCTORS Coordinator Jonathan Kline Instructors Nicolas Azel Lori Fitzgerald JosĂŠ Pertierra Brian Peters Benjamin Saks Shop Director Jon Holmes Terry Hritz Program B.A. B.Arch
Hoop House Construction
Hoop House Construction
STUDENTS Clover Chau, Amanda Cheng, Kimberlyn Cho, Joanne Chui, Aditi Dhabalia, Juhi Dhanesha, Emily Edlich, Victor Eraslan, Emma Father, Steven Fei, Isabella Giammatteo, Paul Greenway, Jenna Guo, Ammar Hassonjee, Adam He, Lukas Hermann, Veronica Hernandez Garrido, Carol Huang, Mike Jin, Grant Johnson, Paul Jung, Maia Kamenova, Sarah Kang, Elijah King, Shanice Lam, Jasmine Lee, Eric Li, Sam Losi, Xindi Lyu, Taisei Manheim, Han Meng, Hagan Miller, Vishaka Nayak, Timothy Nelson-Pyne, Jules Przybylska, Mohammed Rahman, Robert Rice, Carly Sacco, Jai Sawkar, Shariq Shah, Shaelin Spahle, Vivian Teng, Melissa Thomas, Steve Wang, Olivia Werner, Andrew Xu, Ying Yan, Clara Zhao, Ellen Zhu
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Phipps Installation