This is a student project by Megan Dixon for ARCH 442 in Winter 2011.
As a food campus suggests a reversal into a historical food market with the intent of an on-site food system, I use the model of the historical food market, the tradition row crop, and the current market of the big box store as a device for organization of both the agricultural and architectural components. The idea of the row crops works to create pavilions of the agricultural program while interlocking with its corresponding architectural program. Over the site a landscape always makes a connection to a volume. The public program moves to accumulate at 5th street to suggest the facade of the big box store. While dually, the back remains as a green facade, a pastoral view for the neighborhood. Enforcing the inherent idea of a Weiland Park project which attempts to encourage interaction between the consumer and the on-site food system is deployed through a surface condition. Rather than entering at the street front, procession is encouraged on the actual facade which reflects the terraced agriculture behind. This allows people to move across building and landscape simultaneously.
This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present.
