This project was a submission for the 2017, Evolo Skyscraper Competition.
The project is a provocation intended to unveil the inhumane conditions of the industrial meat industry through the relocation of the processing facility from the rural to the urban context. Located in the Meatpacking District within the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it draws on the historical context of the site.
The design takes advantage of the vertical expression of the high rise typology through a series of architectural “lesions” containing public programming, which spills onto the adjacent High Line Park in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. This provides an ideal foreground for an architectural dialogue between the consumers and their product.
The program provides a closed-loop food processing plant which acts as a memorial to the victims of the industry, raising awareness on their living conditions and leveraging the power of architecture to inspire political action. As intellectual beings that have the capacity to understand our influence on our environment and the organisms we share it with, it is our responsibility to conduct ourselves respectfully within it. The first step towards a solution is to reveal the problem.
In sight. In mind.
Collaborators: Subrato Roy, David Harrison and Chris Voltl