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The Lowline lab experiment was a success with over 100 species tried and tested. NYC now has given approval for the large scale implementation of the Lowline project(World’s first underground park). The lighting is the major innovation in this project. It uses only natural light captured from the sun and then sent through optical tubes to a central distribution point. From here its directed to a solar canopy that distributes the light evenly.

You can visit their site http://thelowline.org/ for more information

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New York City's Lowline striding forward to becoming reality

New York City’s Lowline striding forward to becoming reality

The Lowline – a former trolley area that will be transformed into a unique underground park

New York City is famous for many things – Radio City Music Hall, the Statue of Liberty and, for those in the know, the High Line. This last is an above-ground park on the city’s West side that stretches from its original 14th to 20th Streets now extends to 30th Street.

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“VINYL DREAMS”

10/22/2016 LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC

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All images from The Lowline and Dwell Magazine 

The Lowline Lab - a Foray into Underground Parks

While reclaiming condemned buildings and lots for park and recreation use has become more common in large cities, New York is once again ahead of the game with prototype underground parks. The Lowline project is an initiative started in 2009 when James Ramsey, the owner of Raad Studio, and Dan  Barasch, a creative entrepreneur seeking to incorporate art within NY’s underground subway system, met over a glass of wine. They decided to combine their interests of creating an underground garden via solar transference and public art forms into what has become the Lowline project.

Still in the prototype phase, the Lowline Lab seeks to prove that underground gardens/parks are no longer just a designer's dream, but a New Yorker’s reality. The above-ground discs take the sun’s rays and bring them down to drip down the domes that form the roof of the underground garden. This allows the plants to flourish in the natural sunlight and provides all the nutrients needed for humans and plant life alike. 

I am excited to follow the birth and growth of this project as it progresses from Lab to reality in 2021. This is a wonderful new reality for the growth of communities and outreach in the previously un-reachable parts of the city.

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The Lowline Lab (Tumblr) in NYC, May 14, 2016 140 Essex ST, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan (Free and open to the public 11am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday, Oct 2015-March 2017)

The “Lowline” (a nod to the green Highline park found in Chelsea) is a plan to build a park in an unused trolley terminal in the LES of NYC, with a focus on bringing green life underground. Sunlight is collected above ground and then reflected underground to give plants the necessary light they need to grow, expanding the limitations of where plant life can exist. There are currently numerous plants, herbs, and small trees in the Lab display, all organized at differing heights depending on their need for light and space. - I am so glad I found out about this place while I’m still in the city! (And I’m so glad I got a chance to go since this is my last week in the city before moving back to the west coast). It was literally one block away from me the whole year and I didn’t even know until I saw a post about it on here! It’s really beautiful and definitely artistically inspiring. I hope its plans fall through - the concept art is so beautiful and futuristic (and reminds me of Grissom Academy in Mass Effect 3 haha), it would be so great to see something so natural seamlessly added to the underground architecture of NYC.

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Went to go check out The Lowline Lab which is going to be an underground garden in old subway lines. They used a complex series of mirrors to funnel sunlight underground to the plants.

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Lowline Lab - Growing Plants in Underground and Space | Infossible

Lowline Lab creates world's first underground park, and enable people to live underground. Its technology will able to grow plants in space as well by......