Falling house provides a platform green

Salad of radish grown on the roof of the bar or cafe? Perhaps this is an original dish. Especially when the bar and the roof is not his, and the walls too. But there are overhanging upper apartment building, equipped with its own irrigation system and a terrace with beds.






The Locavore Fantasia in his surroundings. Most of all, the building resembles Stadium podium, but their vegetable gardens and orchards are located directly under the beds - flat, and the entire structure (its slope addressed in the sun) - blind area with cafe. Columns, sustaining "slope" is a sculptural ornaments (illustration Work AC).



Which house stood at the intersection of Canal Street and the streets of Varick Street in New York - already it does not matter. And this is what built in its place, it might be interesting.
Recently, the owner of this small quarter - the company Trinity Real Estate - cleared the area and decided that it will be available until the plans are not changed, a park of sculptures.

Creation to the park, which is expected to survive for two or three years, will be selected by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.


The Locavore Fantasia - This apartment building, crowned by this farm. At different levels you can find miniature fields of grain and golf courses (those that agronomists temporarily left "fallow"), gardens and other beds, while upstairs - tanks to collect rainwater.

"We are interested in urban agriculture - explains Emel - and attempts to make our cities more sustainable by reducing the miles, which overcomes the food from the manufacturer to our door."