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Michael Sorkin-designed project for Chicago nonprofit Blacks in Green plans to move ahead

2020-07-09T19:08:00-04:00

New York City-based Terreform and Chicago community development nonprofit Blacks in Green are planning to moving ahead with the BIG Green Homestead project, a development that will bring community-owned sustainable housing and commercial spaces to the city's South Side.

The project is led by Blacks in Green Founder and President Naomi Davis and its design, Energy News Network reports, was worked on by architect Michael Sorkin up until just before he passed away due to COVID-19 in late March. In addition to Sorkin, architect and School of the Art Institute of Chicago educator Ellen Grimes and WXY urban planner Tracy Sanders have also contributed to the project.

Rendering courtesy of Terreform.

The development seeks to instill a “sustainable-square-mile” infilled urban model for the West Woodlawn neighborhood, which is in proximity to the proposed Jackson Park site of the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA) and is faci...

Modular Cricket Pod Lets You Create An Urban Insect Farm

2016-05-02T18:40:00-04:00

Walking up to the Cricket Shelter—a new tent-like structure sitting on a dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard—it might not immediately be obvious that it's full of bugs. But inside pods lining the walls, the prototype is raising 22,000 crickets. Why? To eat, of course.

Terreform ONE has been working on combining food and shelter to solve the United Nations challenge on world hunger.

POLITICO features mini-doc on the biologically based architecture and urban design work of Terreform ONE

2015-11-10T20:29:00-05:00

Bio City -Terreform ONE’s Mitchell Joachim pushes the boundaries of architecture with experimental materials such as living trees and engineered animal tissue — to design future cities that merge with nature.

Mini documentary on the biologically based architecture and urban design work of the nonprofit group Terreform ONE at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in NY.

Recap: The New Museum’s Ideas City Festival By William Hanley

2013-05-10T03:02:00-04:00

At the Ideas City street fair: An installation made from discarded styrofoam by Terreform ONE rises in front of Raumlabor's Spacebuster, a mobile inflatable pavilion comissioned by the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Mitchell Joachim featured in Dwell Magazine, the Now 99 issue

2012-04-26T09:02:00-04:00

Mitchell Joachim, founder of Terreform ONE, was featured in the May issue of Dwell Magazine for the Now 99- Today's Design Landscape: Ideas, People, Products & Plans. An interview with Diana Budds explores Joachim's designs for biologically based architecture as the future of housing. The published interview follows.