HARVEST IN THE SKY

Harvest in the Sky project is an architectural initiative aimed at providing affordable and sustainable housing for the urban community in Poplar, London. The project's key drive focuses on creating food security for its residents by integrating food production directly into the fabric of the building. By doing so, the residents and local community have access to free locally produced organic fruit and vegetables right on their doorstep, as a sustainable approach to mitigating overseas importation and thus its carbon impact. The derelict building, Robin Hood Gardens, was selected as a sustainable approach to reusing existing structures. The original Streets in the Sky concept has been advanced by integrating wider walkways and cycle paths around the external façade with integrating pocket parks along the route. These streets ascended to a roof-market where residents trade their locally produced foods. Live-in Greenhouse Pods and proposed around the ground level, designed as dwellings and allotments integrated within one structural system, Constructed of a 3D-printed modular clay shell dome and upcycled glass greenhouse canopy. Naked pods are positioned around the western façade, housed within one large glass canopy. Branches of the canopy split off to form an undulating roof over the communal theatre space.