Adapted Urban Agro-production

This thesis is based on the main premise that our city streets are dead and have become unhealthy, unnatural, and inhumane – residents prefer interior spaces like their homes, cars and complexes instead of using outdoor public spaces. This issue ultimately stems from the complete separation between our places of living, working, producing and consuming. Can we re-engage the community and solve these intertwined issues with one simple systematic approach by creating healthy, livable and inviting food production co-ops through the reuse of existing and underutilized warehouse blocks ? This revamping is achieved through minimal moves in opening up the beautiful and existing bow truss warehouses found throughout our city into living and breathing greenhouse production consumption and living spaces. The modular CLT system creates new semi-determinate volumes inside of the larger existing spaces.