Looking ahead to the summer at PS1 MoMa when the URBAN FARM hits LIC

February is always a good time to start thinking about the summer, and this year PS1 MoMa is bringing the farm to the city - the aptly dubbed “URBAN FARM’ container garden installation in the PS1 MoMa courtyard. More eloquently stated by the Architect’s Newspaper:

[URBAN FARM] calls for a sun shelter constructed as a butterfly roof of linked planters, a container garden in the air. Intended to be a working farm, the structure is an effort “to create a neighborhood-based ecological infrastructure,” said principal Dan Wood. Heavy-duty cardboard tubes, some as wide as yard in diameter, will be bolted together to form the pavilion. Some will be filled with plants, and some will allow light through; others will contain sound equipment or be carved out to create quiet alcoves.

What’s more is that the farm will grow actual vegetables that will be distributed to the local community. That’ll be a nice supplement to the small but hopefully growing Greenmarket that operates in the warm weather on 48th Ave between Vernon & 5th St. The famous PS1 Warm Up parties sounds even more appealing under the canopy of some ‘experimental’ nature that’s popping up in our concrete jungle.

• Excellent renderings of the URBAN FARM [Architect’s Newspaper]
• Betting a Farm would work in Queens [Architecture Lab]
• WORK Architects [Official website]