Ayana Coker

ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer

[AGRO]URBANSCAPE
Integrating Rural Agriculture into the Urban Void

AYANA COKER

The city of São Paulo is growing at an exponential rate, leaving more than 30 percent of the city’s buildings abandoned.  It is the goal of this thesis to introduce rural agriculture into the urban landscape as a response to the rate of deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon, Cerrado, and Atlantic forest.

By reoccupying these vacant areas of the city with a new ‘urban agricultural’ infrastructure with a series of hub points, market places, and urban pocket farms, this creates an opportunity to cause a shift in cultural farming techniques in the country.

Creating a network of both pedestrian and agricultural flows throughout the city will connect the forgotten spaces within São Paulo, revitalizing the city through the moving social experience while redefining the urban relationship to landscape.

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