Vertical Park By Jorge Hernandez de la Garza
‘Mexico City is a metropolis where zones are meshed as commerce and life often converge to create dynamic spaces of interaction and inter-connectivity. Unfortunately, these zones are being pushed to the periphery as modern development increases delineation to create islands of program disconnected from the pulse of the city. With all its potential for profit, this march of capitalism poses a threat on the cultural and sustainable potential of the city; as zones separate, so do our lives as significant time and energy is spent in transit. Meanwhile, green space is increasingly devoured by steel and concrete.
In response with these demands, we have designed a module, highly structural and flexible in order to provide horizontal and vertical stacking along with diverse insertions to create a mesh not unlike that seen in the periphery. Located in Coyoacan, Mexico City, the project is to revive the calcification of modernity. The module affords not only spaces for living and working but for urban farming, water reclamation, and solar energy collection. As the modules rise vertically to create a high-rise structure, they also spread horizontally in order to create canopies for street level commerce. To provide a more sustainable response to the potential demands of the city, these modules can be rearranged, relocated, and remodeled throughout Mexico City and potentially throughout the world.
Although some may argue that such massive replication would destroy the aims of the project by increasing visual and spatial homogeneity, the flexibility of the project allows the structure of the model to be configured with such diversity that new programs, skins and layouts can be applied in order to adapt to the given region.’
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I suppose we will have to seriously look at vertical farming like this eventually. For one thing unless there is a large and fundamental shift away from pertro culture we will be facing very high (transport) prices eventually. Vertical farms would give us ‘local’ produce in urban centres … one small step towards making the macrobiotics happy.