:: urban agricultural unit ::

documentation the Steel Yard :: ongoing

website www.pipsworks.com/uau.html

The Urban Agricultural Unit is a mobile greenhouse designed for educational, artistic, and commercial purposes. Constructed from a discarded shipping container, the structure’s innovative design is an example of the adaptive reuse of materials within the constraints of an urban setting.

The project’s intent has been to create a “living sculpture” through the transformation of a discarded shipping trailer into a greenhouse capable of year round production within an urban industrial environment. The Urban Agricultural Unit will be educational because it is functional. The project’s participants, comprised of volunteers and students, will share their knowledge and skills in order to improve the viability of urban agriculture on a larger scale. The project is also intended to foster community wide understanding of the advantages and necessity of thinking “out of the box” with respect to urban development. Coupling industrial waste with advanced agricultural technology, the UAU project is devoted to discovering how to do more… with less.

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