NORC farms: building entrances

one prize and more

NORC Farm was awarded the 2010 One Prize sponsored by Terreform One, with support from the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation and American Association of Landscape Architects. The One Prize theme this year: ‘Mowing to Growing: A Design Competition for Creating Productive Green Spaces in Cities’. An exhibition of NORC Farm was mounted in July 2010 at Trespa/Arpa Design Centre, New York. In the autumn, the design team will begin meetings with government agencies, urban farmers and community groups to begin feasibility testing.

tower in the farm

NORC Farms will connect aging New Yorkers with typically inaccessible lawns that surround their public housing complexes in order to create and cultivate farm plots and to activate inter-generational social spaces. NORC FARMS will use urban agriculture to transform fenced-in and under-utilised expanses of grass lawns – creating a socially, ecologically and economically productive space; activating and honoring expertise of older New Yorkers; re-purposing passive public housing spaces into productive sources of local agriculture; and evolving Corbusier’s concept of ’tower in the park‘ as the sustainable ’tower in the farm’.

NORC Farm is intended to launch as a pilot project at Red
Hook Houses, selected because it is the largest complex of
public housing in the borough of Brooklyn, consisting of 2,878 apartments. If NORC Farm is successful at Red Hook Houses, the potential impact could be tremendous across this city of 8 million. New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the largest public housing authority in North America. NYCHA’s Public Housing Program has 178,407 apartments in 334 developments throughout the city in 2,604 residential buildings housing 403,665 residents.

NORC farms

9.07.2010

building entrances

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