ABSTRACT
Public Farm 1 is in the P. S. 1 Young Architects Program of courtyard installations, serving as the venue for their summer "Warm Up" beach parties. This installation inventively uses cardboard concrete formwork tubes. The load of the installation rests on tubes, which bear on the ground plane. Each structural column was designated by a program for the area. These varied from a solar-powered juicer for veggie cocktails, to a periscope, to water spouting column, a towel column, and a solar phone charging station. The installation included 18 photovoltaic solar cells for generating power. The tubes are arranged in a daisy-shaped pattern of six tubes. The centre of each daisy was either one of the aforementioned structural columns, or was designed as a picking station, allowing users to break through the surface for harvesting the garden. Each daisy was pre-assembled on a sloped form, allowing for simpler positioning, and hoisted into place on the surface, with a crane.
