Growing Home
Exhibit Category / Cat茅gorie de l'expo: Community & Knowledge
Location/Emplacement: Chicago, IL, USA
Dates: 2008 - present
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Project Description: (version fran莽aise ci-dessous)
Growing Home operates a transitional employment program in Chicago for those who face barriers to entering the work force. It runs three certified organic farms in the Chicago area. One of these sites, Wood Street Urban Farm, has been the subject of a multi-year collaboration between Growing Home and local architects, SHED Studio.
The farm is located in Englewood, a once flourishing Chicago neighbourhood, which has suffered from decades of neglect and criminal activity, resulting in extensive abandonment and wide expanses of vacant land. Most major food vendors have abandoned the area, resulting in a classic 鈥渇ood desert鈥�. Growing Home partnered with several local entities that started work on fleshing out the vision of an urban agricultural district 鈥渢o provide business, job training and employment opportunities while improving the availability of fresh produce.鈥�
In the summer of 2008 three hoop house greenhouses were built and used to grow crops year round. As the urban farm area expanded it could not really function optimally until it had additional facilities. Consequently, SHED Studio worked with the Growing Home staff to identify the detailed needs that had to be programmed in the new building at the site. Phase 2 involved the construction of a multi-purpose building that included a permanent attached greenhouse, processing and storage space, and rooms for offices and meetings. The incorporation of neighborhood-beautifying landscaping was important to make the site an amenity for the community. A living wall, flower boxes and an area for farm sales were thus included, as was an 鈥渆dible fence鈥� with fruit trees and bushes. The final phase of the project is intended to include green elements that will make the farm energy efficient. Solar panels and a 鈥減ower tower鈥� with photovoltaic panels or a wind turbine will provide energy for the site; and a green roof will insulate the space underneath. The Wood Street Urban Farm now produces over 4 500 kg of produce a year and aims to sell half of what is grown at the urban farm within the Englewood community.
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Description du Projet:
Le programme 芦 Growing Home 禄 de Chicago offre des emplois de transition 脿 des personnes rencontrant des difficult茅s 脿 s鈥檌nt茅grer au march茅 du travail. Il g猫re dans la r茅gion trois fermes certifi茅es biologiques. L鈥檜ne de celles-ci, la Ferme urbaine de Wood Street (Wood Street Urban Farm), a fait l鈥檕bjet d鈥檜ne collaboration de plusieurs ann茅es entre 芦 Growing Home 禄 et SHED Studio, un bureau d鈥檃rchitectes local.
La ferme se situe 脿 Englewood, un quartier jadis prosp猫re de Chicago, qui, apr猫s des d茅cennies de n茅gligence et d鈥檃ctivit茅s criminelles, est en grande partie laiss茅 脿 l鈥檃bandon, avec de vastes 茅tendues de terrain vacant. La plupart des vendeurs de produits alimentaires ont quitt茅 la r茅gion, laissant ce que l鈥檕n appelle commun茅ment un 芦 d茅sert alimentaire 禄. 芦 Growing Home 禄 s鈥檈st associ茅 脿 plusieurs entit茅s locales, donnant corps 脿 un quartier d鈥檃griculture urbaine qui non seulement 芦 offre des possibilit茅s commerciales, des formations professionnelles, cr茅e des emplois, mais aussi am茅liore la disponibilit茅 des produits frais 禄.
Au cours de l鈥櫭﹖茅 2008, trois serres 脿 arceaux ont 茅t茅 construites pour permettre la culture d鈥檃liments tout au long de l鈥檃nn茅e. Du fait de son expansion, la ferme urbaine ne pouvait fonctionner de fa莽on optimale sans installations suppl茅mentaires. SHED Studio a donc travaill茅 avec 芦 Growing Home 禄 pour identifier pr茅cis茅ment les besoins auxquels la nouvelle construction devait r茅pondre. La deuxi猫me phase du projet a engag茅 la construction d鈥檜n b芒timent polyvalent comprenant une serre permanente, un espace de transformation et d鈥檈ntreposage, mais aussi des bureaux et des salles de r茅unions. L鈥檃m茅nagement paysager a 茅t茅 un aspect important pour embellir le quartier et rendre le site agr茅able 脿 la communaut茅. Un mur vivant, des bacs 脿 fleurs et un lieu de vente de produits fermiers ont 茅t茅 cr茅茅s, ainsi qu鈥檜ne 芦 cl么ture comestible 禄 d鈥檃rbres et arbustes fruitiers. La phase finale du projet pr茅voit d鈥檌nclure des 茅l茅ments verts : des panneaux solaires et une 芦 tour d鈥櫭﹏ergie 禄 avec des panneaux photovolta茂ques ou une 茅olienne fourniront le site en 茅nergie ; un toit v茅g茅talis茅 isolera le b芒timent. La Ferme urbaine de Wood Street produit aujourd鈥檋ui plus de 4,5 tonnes par an et pr茅voit de vendre la moiti茅 de sa production au sein de la communaut茅 d鈥橢ngelwood.
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