Roar is the holistic reintegration of agriculture in the urban environment cultivating a new spatial practice and social cohesion in addition to food for our tables.
Roar addresses the following design questions:
How can urban public places inform and enhance community?
Can we improve community health by teaching practices through environmental awareness?
Roar is an urban activator, a catalyst that evokes change; a productive suburban community farm, a market, a kitchen a meeting place, an educational space. The concept is to bring quality food and knowledge to the local community, to improve health and demonstrate the economic viability of a sustainable approach to serving food.
Every plant is edible. The roof creates an additional garden and public meeting place that not only acts as a beacon but also facilitates a more productive enterprise. Wheelchair access is provided by a zero-energy lift based on the counter-weighted system of the original hand-powered lifts and dumb waiters.
The central part of the building disappears, dissolving the box and re-enforcing the advert qualities of the site. Creating transparency, to inform the public of the rear gardens and further blurring the boundaries between nature and the manmade - between the horizontal and vertical.
The rear garden planters gradually increase in height providing a terraced effect. Diagonal voids add to the concept of blurring, not allowing the observer a direct view. The overall design celebrates layers and gradations and highlights the contrast between the strong geometric forms and the organic vegetation dissolving them.
Roar reclaims and transforms this unused urban space into a beneficial green enclave that contributes to the local urban ecology, health and wellbeing.
Roar is a place to learn how to reap what you sow.
How can urban public places inform and enhance community?
Can we improve community health by teaching practices through environmental awareness?
Roar is an urban activator, a catalyst that evokes change; a productive suburban community farm, a market, a kitchen a meeting place, an educational space. The concept is to bring quality food and knowledge to the local community, to improve health and demonstrate the economic viability of a sustainable approach to serving food.
Every plant is edible. The roof creates an additional garden and public meeting place that not only acts as a beacon but also facilitates a more productive enterprise. Wheelchair access is provided by a zero-energy lift based on the counter-weighted system of the original hand-powered lifts and dumb waiters.
The central part of the building disappears, dissolving the box and re-enforcing the advert qualities of the site. Creating transparency, to inform the public of the rear gardens and further blurring the boundaries between nature and the manmade - between the horizontal and vertical.
The rear garden planters gradually increase in height providing a terraced effect. Diagonal voids add to the concept of blurring, not allowing the observer a direct view. The overall design celebrates layers and gradations and highlights the contrast between the strong geometric forms and the organic vegetation dissolving them.
Roar reclaims and transforms this unused urban space into a beneficial green enclave that contributes to the local urban ecology, health and wellbeing.
Roar is a place to learn how to reap what you sow.
