2020: A Green Odyssey

Abundance on the plate for the privileged few, us the city dwellers and an empty bowl for a large toiling population prompted a question about the prevalent disconnect and emotional indifference for the roots from where the food that we, the privileged, source. The project is building up on that narrative to bring value to the food that comes to our plates. The sensorial experiences attached with working, tending and toiling the land for the green produce, be it the delicate herbs, the colorful fruits and vegetables or the shady orchards, this project offers a chance to reconnect with the soil, learn basics of farming and turn our cities to be having farming backyards and balconies. It approaches the present abandoned site with a playful language of bends and curves of discoveries in contrast to its stoic and hard shell like container. The project offers forking choices of activities related to farming and farm produce, all orchestrated within the regimental layout of the given structure. However, the generosity of the scale of the given structure is articulated by taking advantage of creating an elevated entry to achieve a hovering experience as being amongst the branches of the trees and its foliage to be looking down at the spread on the ground, here, the platter of green produce growing on the floor of the abandoned factory building. The project Imagines to be a lively place to go to for people of all age groups and everyone wishing to connect with the greens which is not as leisure as in parks but as an active gardener of the greens. In its landscape, it offers greens as experiential space making elements with its colors, textures and fragrances.