Abstract:

The project explores a systematic circular economy that remedies 16 East Avenue, Fair Haven, CT's state of neglect and providing the Friend’s Center for Children (New Haven, CT) with stable and self-reliant residence through the introduction of a system of myco-biotas. Responding to the urban grid, each myco-biota is composed of oyster farms, algae gardens, fungi incubators, residential units, and vertical gardens. The project acts at a micro scale through a regenerative approach and a macro scale by allowing the user to be autonomous in stable housing and food production. The myco-biotas support a trans-scalar circular economy, tending to humans and others.