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Crop Upgrade | Street View Render

Fall 2017, FRONTLINE Studio Make/Share Produce Showroom in Fishtown, Philadelphia critic: Brian Phillips

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Crop Upgrade | "Interior" Render

Fall 2017, FRONTLINE Studio Make/Share Produce Showroom in Fishtown, Philadelphia critic: Brian Phillips

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Crop Upgrade | Plans + Section

Fall 2017, FRONTLINE Studio Make/Share Produce Showroom in Fishtown, Philadelphia critic: Brian Phillips

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Crop Upgrade | Site Plan

Fall 2017, FRONTLINE Studio Make/Share Produce Showroom in Fishtown, Philadelphia critic: Brian Phillips

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Crop Upgrade | Radiation Analysis

Fall 2017, FRONTLINE Studio Make/Share Produce Showroom in Fishtown, Philadelphia critic: Brian Phillips

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Crop Upgrade | Agenda

Fall 2017, FRONTLINE Studio Make/Share Produce Showroom in Fishtown, Philadelphia critic: Brian Phillips

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Crop Upgrade | Massing Studies Catalog

Fall 2017, FRONTLINE Studio Make/Share Produce Showroom in Fishtown, Philadelphia critic: Brian Phillips

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THE AQUEDUCT

The Aqueduct seeks to radically reduce the distance between food and urban dwelling for a youthful population interested in a new micro-scaled farm to table relationship wrapped in an experientially novel architecture. The project hybridizes housing and aquaponics into a self-sufficient ecosystem. With Greensgrow (a local fresh produce and plant grower) as the hypothetical developer, Aqueduct is a new living model which collapses living and food production into a single lifestyle. In the center of the building is a volume filled with fish defining a central stalk of water infrastructure. Surrounding this core is a greenhouse framework to the south and living units to the north. All three habitats are designed such that all occupants sustain each other in a closed loop system, with leftover production to export to the surrounding neighborhood.