How to Assemble Our Own Living Structures
Cristina Bara, Daniel Barrio, Jack Collins, Mollie Davis, Fangtian Ni, Prathamesh Patil, Biran Silvia, Yang Tang, Amy Wang, Alexis Wang, Yuxin Wang, Jiabao Zhu, and Xinyu Zhu
Peter von Bülow
How we grow, eat and access food is central to the social + environmental challenges impacting public health, climate change, energy and ecosystems today. We partnered with the Campus Farm (a student-driven lab for sustainable food systems work whose principles include growing food for students by students, carbon-neutrality, and food justice) to design a gathering structure at Matthaei Botanical Gardens that will support the various communities and activities that coexist on the farm’s land. – Assembling Community: Inspired by co-designed + co-built architectures situated in grassroots, community-organized sites, we designed an architecture that is accessible build-wise to those within and…