The Tower of New Agronon, represents a different form of super-tall speculation, born out of an alternate paradigm that values proximity to agricultural production in lieu of externalization. While its peer pencil towers house five hundred people on half-acre lots as supported by three hundred arable acres externalized to the hinterlands, New Agronon utilizes its vertical abundance of space in support of a commune of twenty-six and all their food requirements each year . The super tall’s form, derived from the nutritional food pyramid, establishes individual sub-towers each stewarded by a single family for one component of the American diet: collectively creating a vertical village of codependency. The denizens of New Agronon seek out a new density of living with the reduction of their carbon footprint, chartering a new balanced diet of sustainable pescatarian means with excess, due to selective thermal enclosures of indoor multi-cycle cultivation, able to provide for the immediate city population.
Status: Competition Entry
Location: Melbourne, AU
My Role: Lead Design Associate
Additional Credits: OP / Architecture and Landscape PLLC
Jonathan A. Scelsa and Jennifer Birkeland