The Huntington Urban Farm designed by New Zealand architect Tim Stephens

Huntington Urban Farm, rendering courtesy Tim Stephens

Huntington Urban Farm

Plusmood.com
July 18, 2010
Design: Tim Stephens
Project: Huntington Urban Farm
Location: Huntington, NY, USA

Excerpt:

This specific case study locates the Urban Farm on existing car-park covered land in the centre of Huntington Township, in close proximity to the town’s public library, church and nursery. The Urban Farm’s primary objective is to promote and support the act of growing one’s own produce in a controlled, and convenient manner. The issue of growing sustainable food crops is only going to become more prevalent and what better way to promote the practice, than to provide farmable plots in the centre of townships, accessible to the entire community.

The Urban Farm provides farmable plots in a variety of configurations and sizes to suit individual users/small families to larger community user groups. In providing these farming plots for the community to use, the precinct will become a hub for social activity and interaction, something sorely missing in many existing communities.

The precinct is articulated formerly in such as way as to relate to the pedestrian, not the car-like existing conditions. Winding paths and changing levels play on the sense of adventure and discovery as one moves through the precinct. Converging paths and site lines stimulate opportunities for social interaction.

See more illustrations and description of the project here.