PS 64 - The Farming School

PS 64 - The Farming School

Status: Academic - GSAPP

Location: Manhattan, NY

Professor: Gordon Kipping

Year: 2020

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The Farming School passively responds to the climate to create a relationship between farming and pedagogy. The classes are laid as staired terraces where the rooftop of each class is used for planting creating an non hierarchical urban farm that impacts both the environmental, and social aspects of the neighbourhood. The trays which act as both the facade and roof open to the air and filled with vegetation, the low embodied carbon school reduces the temperature of the microclimate of the neighbourhood and reduces the urban heat island effect while reviving the urban farming citizen activism of the East Village.