Project: ENYA Competition – The Harlem Edge
Designed by Praud
Team: Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim
Area: 2 475 m2
Location: West Harlem, Manhattan, New York , USA
Website: www.praud.info
The Harlem Edge is a weather adjustable design for ENYA competition created by Praud, to find out how it actually works continue after the jump:
From the Architects:
The Greenhouse Transformer is a typology for urban farming with the purpose of creating environments for learning year round within the community of West Harlem. The main goal is to integrate life cycle components of food production into a building that is also a catalyst for activity in the area and allows visitors to engage in the program in a more efficient way.
To achieve this goal, we introduced a transforming system that can provide various environments as nature. One of the things that restricts farming in a city the most is climate condition. Unlike in a farm land where developed irrigation systems are, urban farming should stricktly depend on natural climate conditions. Together with mechanical means, the system allows different types of climate so that climate conditions for urban farming can be more controlled.
