Situated on the Hudson Rail yards at the north-end of the High Line Elevated Park, this project is a new building typology combining the programmatic elements of museum, park, and agricultural villa - but instead of harvesting food, synthetic plants containing nano-sized dynamos are implanted on surfaces to harness kinetic energy of users, glowing when activated. Massive crowds on the site could light the entire block and the energy harvested could feed back into the city’s electrical grid.

The entire site is open-use and open to the elements offering vagabond and residence respite from Manhattan’s congestion. Inclined paths provide challenging routes through the space to sculpture works sheltered within. The highest elevations of the project may be reached by the most determined participants and reveal views over the entire sculpture yard, the Hudson River and beyond. Using digital tools to develop painterly techniques a landscape was sculpted to form interior spaces - a three-dimensional still life composition pulled directly off a canvas.

CRITIC _DAVID RUY 

SITE _HUDSON RIVER RAIL YARD, NEW YORK, NEW YORK