Harvest City / Tangram 3DS

Dec 2010

By Andrew Rosenberg — Filed under: Housing ,Sustainability ,Urban Design , Haiti, Harvest City, Tangram 3DS

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Architects: Tangram 3DS
Location: Haiti
Project year: 2010
Photographs Tangram 3DS

Tangram 3DS collaborated with Boston Architect/Designer E. Kevin Schopfer to visualize his design proposal to build a floating agricultural / light industrial city off the shores of Haiti. For purposes of defining we have named the community, Harvest City. Harvest City is envisioned as a vibrant fully functioning city of 30,000 residents which embraces three major concepts.

1. The creation of an artificial, floating, productive and livable land desperately needed for Haiti.

2. A city designed based on the principle of Arcology (Architecture and Ecology) which embodies an ecologically sustainable and practical urban platform.

3. That harvest City should be established as a “Charter City”. Charter City is a relatively new and advanced economic model specifically developed for struggling nations.

Harvest City is envisioned as a 2 mile diameter complex of tethered floating modules. The overall design is divided into four zones or communities interconnected by a linear canal system. The four major canals will focus built neighborhoods consisting of four story housing complexes. The outer perimeter of the design is predominately “one acre” crop circles with secondary feeder canals. The inner “harbor” will house the city center with schools, administrative, community activities and general marketplace. The entire complex will float and be cable secured to the sea bed. Because of its low profile, low draft dead weight capacity and perimeter wave attenuators, hurricanes and typhoon will have little effect other than collection of much needed water harvesting. A breakwater will be constructed to add to the city’s stability. (It should be noted, this proposal suggests using all the concrete rubble debris from the earthquake as the breakwater filler.) Harvest City i!

s seen as the first floating city for Haiti. The system of floating platforms allows for a master plan to grow and link to other future cities within the harbor.

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* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Rosenberg , Andrew . "Harvest City / Tangram 3DS" 25 Dec 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/98488>

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Michael says:

Really? What is exactly is the point of this?

1. It would never be able to be built because of how expensive it would be to construct and Haiti’s whole debt issue.

2. If it was meant to just be a visionary project why try to justify some of design aspects because they look terrible.

3. How is this any better than any other half thought out Utopian project?

# December 26, 2010 at 01:47

mvb says:

It looks like an old fashion resort for rich people.

# December 26, 2010 at 02:32

Daniel says:

Having lived in Haiti I find this proposal to be quite silly. There is available fertile soil in Haiti. Why would you build a floating field? Why would any Haitian want to live on the water? Who could afford to live there? and who gets to own the cute white sailboat?

# December 26, 2010 at 02:39

carlos domingues says:

This is by far the worst idea I’ve seen here on AD.
So they mention the recent earthquake, they speak about the need to reconstruct and their proposal is to spend all the money they don’t have to make an island with ordinary concepts that beneffit is no single aspect from the fact that it is on the sea.
Talk about putting money to good use…
Guess what, you’re too late! No one is buying this kind of crap anymore. Not even the UAE.

# December 26, 2010 at 05:01

Vlad says:

This video must have been posted as a joke…

# December 26, 2010 at 05:26

j says:

This not an architectural firm, but a rendering firm.I dont think such things should be posted on archdaily…unless you guys are running out of good designs. which shouldnt be the case

# December 26, 2010 at 05:58

op says:

This is terrible rendering company… tasteless, soulless and without any understanding about design basics.

# December 26, 2010 at 08:20

drewc says:

A hurricane-proof city built on water in one of the most hurricane prone parts of the world… guess I’ll get started on my fire-proof city that spans a volcano.

# December 26, 2010 at 10:34

Timothy says:

The investments are just too big for the amount of food produced by the circulair crop-things. It is a new way of presenting heaven to an already devastated area by means of “rendering”. I doubt the reason why an architectural company presents this. It is a shame that architects think about this being the solution to a much wider problem. Please come up with something better, and more reasonable. People are dying out there…

# December 26, 2010 at 20:15

The investments are just too big for the amount of food produced by the circulair crop-things. It is a new way of presenting heaven to an already devastated area by means of “rendering”?. I doubt the reason why an architectural company presents this. It is a shame that architects think about this being the solution to a much wider problem. Please come up with something better, and more reasonable. People are dying out there…

# December 26, 2010 at 20:16

a.r.ch says: