Nurturing Ecosystems

Keywords: Symbiotic Urbanism, Productive Landscapes

The genesis of our vision began with our award-winning project, Symbiopia, an imagined symbiotic waterfront community that combines a vertical hydroponic farming facility with a multifaceted urban landscape, that is interwoven between a web of existing infrastructure, to connect a low-income community to its waterfront. The project was the first to successfully address our interests in complex urban design issues such as equitable access to fresh food, sustainable economic development, waste management, and infrastructure in a design that fostered symbiotic relationships between the community, environment, and local economy.