Located in Manhattan's Hudson Yard, the Dystopian Farm Skyscraper, an urban farm, proposes not only a technical solution to enhancing urban agricultural production, but also the dynamic introduction of politically diverse social classes into the city. If real change is to occur, an ecological solution must also take into account human cultural activity and ingrain advanced technologies within the practice of everyday life. This urban high-rise farm brings together inherently political opposing agents: farmers (producers) and New Yorkers (consumers). Such a mix generates cultural confrontations within a high-rise typology; farmers, the producers of biomass, are injected into the city, a historic environment of biomass consumption.1 The aim of the project is thus to redefine the typology of the high-rise, not through formal invention -by efficiently stacking plates-but rather through the maximisation of 'growing surfaces' by orchestrating dynamic programmatic interactions.
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