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Eleni Stefania Kalapoda (Project Leader),Menghan (Meng) Zhang – Landscape Gardener,Tian Hao -Environmental Designer,Kuan-I (Max) Wu- Architect

https://elenikalapoda.com/

Athens, Greece
We are an international and multidisciplinary team (architect, landscape gardener, environmental designer) focused on the interactions between water bodies and urbanism as well as regeneration of de-industrialized landscapes through living infrastructure.

Call for ideas 2021

RE-WORKING THE URBAN FRINGE:


ENGINEERED-TIMBER CIVIC REALM FOR POST-PANDEMIC WELL- BEING

RE-WORKING THE URBAN FRINGE:


ENGINEERED-TIMBER CIVIC REALM FOR POST-PANDEMIC WELL- BEING
The project repurposes underperforming and marginalized land for shared timber farming in order to enact a more equitable and synergistic relationship (socio-economically and environmentally) between the built space and the fragmented peri-urban forest.
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  • Systemic changes

RE-WORKING THE URBAN FRINGE: ENGINEERED-TIMBER CIVIC REALM FOR POST-PANDEMIC WELLBEING
In Hudson Valley, most of the trees are privately owned, growing on Wildland Urban Intermix.
The project envisions a vertically integrated, resilient timber supply chain as a way to incentivize private landowners to sustainably manage their own forests while directly accessing a shared infrastructure of researching, harvesting, manufacturing, and retail, waste-recycling, and branding for their timber product.
By sustaining long-term forest-plant-based economic development through this shared co-op system, Hudson Valley’s scaled-down timber industry will be funneled. With these four entities - Center for Resilient Forestry & Wood Innovation Facilities, Certification Centers, Sawmill- Distribution Center-Recycling & Storage and Renewable Energy Facilities, the project acts as infrastructure that promotes a holistic framework for profitable and sustainable timber agroforestry.

RE-WORKING THE URBAN FRINGE:


ENGINEERED-TIMBER CIVIC REALM FOR POST-PANDEMIC WELL- BEING

RE-WORKING THE URBAN FRINGE:


ENGINEERED-TIMBER CIVIC REALM FOR POST-PANDEMIC WELL- BEING
The project repurposes underperforming and marginalized land for shared timber farming in order to enact a more equitable and synergistic relationship (socio-economically and environmentally) between the built space and the fragmented peri-urban forest.
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

RE-WORKING THE URBAN FRINGE: ENGINEERED-TIMBER CIVIC REALM FOR POST-PANDEMIC WELLBEING
In Hudson Valley, most of the trees are privately owned, growing on Wildland Urban Intermix.
The project envisions a vertically integrated, resilient timber supply chain as a way to incentivize private landowners to sustainably manage their own forests while directly accessing a shared infrastructure of researching, harvesting, manufacturing, and retail, waste-recycling, and branding for their timber product.
By sustaining long-term forest-plant-based economic development through this shared co-op system, Hudson Valley’s scaled-down timber industry will be funneled. With these four entities - Center for Resilient Forestry & Wood Innovation Facilities, Certification Centers, Sawmill- Distribution Center-Recycling & Storage and Renewable Energy Facilities, the project acts as infrastructure that promotes a holistic framework for profitable and sustainable timber agroforestry.

Idea by

Eleni Stefania Kalapoda (Project Leader),Menghan (Meng) Zhang – Landscape Gardener,Tian Hao -Environmental Designer,Kuan-I (Max) Wu- Architect
Athens
Greece
We are an international and multidisciplinary team (architect, landscape gardener, environmental designer) focused on the interactions between water bodies and urbanism as well as regeneration of de-industrialized landscapes through living infrastructure.
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