It is always a delight when a new green structure is added to the planet as it not only increases interest in green architecture, which I’m so fond of personally, but it also makes sure that one less structure sucks up power by burning coal of splitting Uranium! All that said one of the greatest advantages of building a social green structure is that it spreads the message of using clean fuel among the young and budding minds across the planet. The public One Farm in New York is one such special structure.
A part of PS1 extension of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in Long Island City, New York, Public Farm One (PF1) is a living exhibit of plant life and urban art. n addition to providing an outdoor social space for the summer of 2008, designers at the WORK Architecture Company conceived the growing exhibit utilizing each structural component in a sustainable way. The entire structure is powered by the sun and the rain water making it completely clean and filled with plenty of goodness of nature.
All of PF1’s vegetables, herbs and fruit are housed in a collection of large 100-percent recyclable cardboard tubes, leaning over the angular concrete and gravel courtyard. In addition, the entire facility of powered by rooftop solar panels, whereas the plants are irrigated naturally through rain collection. The cardboard reinforcements were designed to hold “a different program, from seating to sound environments to a mobile phone charging column. More such structures in the hearts of urban jungles will help sustain the planets eco-system and take us towards a future that is clean for the generations to come.
