agrarian village

agrarian village...

The Oakland Coliseum site near the San Leandro Bay requires intervention in order to ensure it’s resilience to climate change. Agrarian Village tackles ecological, urban, and social issues present on this site through a strategy that phases itself from 2020 through 2080. A main component of this strategy is the economic catalyst that was chosen in order to ensure growth on the site: Marijuana Cultivation. Agrarian Village’s mater planning focuses on how to design a new typology of marijuana cultivation and communal living through managing the surrounding landscape and implementing new systems around it.

Agrarian Village’s living scale promotes community cultivation through small-scaled agriculture and collective housing. At the urban block scale, there is 60% permeability for light to enter the underneath surface, one portion of this being the courtyard. The courtyard is the intermediate level between the ecological and cultivation realm below, and the collective atmosphere above. On the third level surface, there is 25% collective space, 25% gardens, and 50% living units. 

Design Team: Jaime Jung, Maria Ulloa, Adan Rios

SITE TYPOLOGY

LIVING SCALE TYPOLOGY

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