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Final Study_693_Spring 02011 Texas A&M University College of Architecture
agricenter
On-Screen Presentation: Midterm Presenation
introduction/This final study proposal is two-fold. Firstly, the project proposes reusing an existing historical landmark in the center of Dallas as a new food market which draws inspiration from the traditional markets of Europe and blends them with a modern food grocer to provide a much needed grocery store to the Downtown Dallas neighborhood as well as a centralized market place for the city as a whole. Secondly, the project proposes creating a system of large and small urban farms from left over sites bordering the highways that ring Downtown which will feed agricultural produce into the newly created food market. This proposal attempts to address urban revitalization at multiple scales from the street to the city and posits that social revitalization and urban agriculture are critically important to the resuscitation of an existing urban form.
context/The site is located within Downtown Dallas directly in front of Pearl Station (DART, light rail) just two blocks away from the Arts District, across the highway from Deep Ellum and just a few blocks away from the Main Street District.
program/The Center for Urban Agriculture adaptively reuses the abandoned Old Dallas High School as an open market, small grocery store, and cafe. A new building to house the Texas A&M College of Agriculture’s AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Downtown Dallas will be designed. The research and extension center will serve two main purposes, to facilitate research in urban agriculture and urban land issues, and to become an educational resource on agriculture and gardening within the urban communities around Downtown and city of Dallas. The rest of the 5.4 acre site will be used as public space in the form of plazas and green space as well as a functioning farm/garden which will act as a demonstration garden, and research garden which will supply the market and local food banks with fresh produce.
