ENJOY!
An Appetite for Ecology, Infrastructure, and Everyday Practices of Inhabitation
cowhouse Angela Carbone & Tamara Jamil
Contents
Manifesto Start Cattle Industry Timeline Manifesto Continued Resource Schema, Liberty NJ Foodtopia Facilities Comparison Existing Conditions, Siting Diagrams, Formal Synthesis Site Plan and Landscaping Plans and Interior Views Sectional Perspective
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Where is the great American steer,
which once roamed among the human animal in the overcrowded, tuberculosis filled streets of Lower Manhattan? Long gone are the dreams of our forefathers, the agrarian patriots who enabled our pockets to run deep and our technologies multiply like flies on sweet water.
“Enticing a minor is a class-D felony; so is trespassing a livestock facility.” Missouri Legislation
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Banished from the mind’s eye of the urban American, we first drove our cattle away onto the broad cement-paved plain of Chicago while our bellies filled like balloons of cheaply slaughtered protein.
first refrigerated rail car
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We removed the cow from the hoof, and condemned the carcass, part symbol of pleasure-- part spectre of death, to move along rails and filter into our Swanson TV Dinners while we sauntered up to our couches and tube-fueled televisions. We grew fat, our gluttony began to show.
CATTLE INDUSTRY TIMELINE a Picture of the Industry in 2013: 49 BILLION DOLLAR VALUED INDUSTRY 25.5 BILLION POUNDS OF BEEF SOLD PER YEAR 32 MILLION HEADS OF CATTLE SLAUGHTERED PER YEAR
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SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT
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The first Cattle lands on the island of New Amsterdam through the Dutch West India Company.
A settlement of slaughterhouses and cattle pens crowd lower Manhattan after the stench of slaughter in winter overwhelms islanders to declare a public ordinance.
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Cattle raised in upstate New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts shipped by boat or ferry to central stockyards on the Lower East Side and cattle are only slaughtered at night to order.
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Marks the beginning of decades of male exclusive beefsteak orgies hosted at butcher shops for cattle ship captains (3lbs per person of beef / no knives, forks or napkins permitted / endless beer and salad).
There are 25-30 slaughterhouses a block from the intersection of Mulberry and Spring streets.
Manhattan has 531 butcher shops across the city.
Nine railroad companies create centralized stockyard on the edge of Chicago.
First plant of the Armour Meat Packers is opened at the union stock yards in Chicago.
First cow town created in Abilene, Kansas due to Chisholm cattle trail and Kansas Pacific Railroad convergence.
A cow tunnel is built under twelfth avenue to serve as an underground passageway to relieve street traffic.
1870-1900 Cattle population more than doubles from 15 million to 35 million. New York is the nation’s leading beefproducing center.
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1880-1890s A rash of Beefsteak Orgy Clubs breaks out over Manhattan, establishing Keen’s, Old Homestead, and Peter Luger’s --giving birth to what would become the Steak House.
1887 Urban livestock markets make the move from East to Midwest.
1900 90 percent of the cattle market is located in Chicago, controlled by the vertically integrated Beef Trust: Armour, Hammond, Swift, Morris, and Cudahy slaughter-packers; first appearance of genetically engineered livestock.
1920 Women earn the right to vote; steak houses are no longer gendered.
1942 War rations send most meat “powerful food” to soldiers overseas to buff up the armed forces. Homefronters eat 2.5 lb of beef per week.
1950s Swift and Armour vacate their packing facilities. Chicago’s packer slaughter plants declines were due to further advances in post-World War II transprtation and distribution.
Direct sales of livestock from breeders to packers, facilitated by advancement in interstate trucking, made it cheaper to slaughter animals where they were raised and rendered the intermediary stockyards obsolete.
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2015
The Playboy Penthouse features the transparent dome broiler, encouraging subscribers to cook sizzling steaks.
There are more than ninety steakhouses in Manhattan alone.
Chicago union stockyards Then, we pushed our savory carcasses further into the deep recesses of America’s Nomanslands. With no animals in sight, we are guiltless. Our machines, our facilities, our purveyors follow these hoofless animals. So far spread is our cattle network, that we can no longer conceive of a new system. This infrastructure has always been a creation in human hands.
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Now, our desires have grown to become insatiable. But so too do the soils of our heartland. Infertile and weak, unable to produce enough grain to sustain demand or population, the various classes of people in society today no longer have food adapted to sustainable farming practices.
photos of feedlots by mishka henner
It is a question of infrastructure which is at the root of the cultural unrest of today; therefore we must choose beef
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or revolution.
This is a manifesto.
We the creators of this manifesto put forth the following set of criteria to create a more suitable, more sustainable, more contemporary model of cattle consumption.
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Craving a steak? Think again...
Resource Schema for 5 Cows Liberty, NY
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And this is the ‘ideal‘ scenario if we followed the Recommended Daily Allowance. How many of us would?
Instructions
CITY LIMITS
CITY LIMITS
1. Adopt the cattle that we have forsaken long ago. Place him in the city as an animal among the human animal. Provide him with land to feed and roam. Delineate topographical bounds to keep him contained, yet content.
POST-POST-REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT
CITY LIMITS
SLAUGHTER HOUSE CITY LIMITS
PROCESSING STORAGE CITY LIMITS
RETAIL CONSUMPTION CITY LIMITS
preliminary proposal for short circuiting of typical beef consumption
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Corbusier’s Chandigarh green cow-laden fingers penetrate city grids to create pockets of parkscape
Le Corbusier, Chandigarh, c. 1951. Sketch of cattle and vernacular building forms.
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25.83 MILLION KCAL PER ACRE
LIVING SPACE
HUMAN LAND USE versus COW LAND USE per sector 14
-6.7 MILLION KCAL IN WASTE
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SLAUGHTER SLAUGHTERED COW, WHOLE 1 MILLION KCAL PROCESSING SLAUGHTERED COW, PROCESSED .44 MILLION KCAL STORAGE
-19.43 KCAL PER ACRE
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WHEAT 6.4 MILLION KCAL PER ACRE
SLAUGHTERED COW, PROCESSED -.56 MILLION KCAL
RETAIL
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***where each block represents an acre of program land
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COW 70 MILLION KCAL PER LIFE
SLAUGHTERED COW, PROCESSED -.56 MILLION KCAL
ere each block represents an acre of program land
industrial land
LIVING SPACE
CONSUMPTION
BEEF 62.5 CAL PER OUNCE OR 12,563 CAL PER BLOCK OF 67
civic land cow park land people park land
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calorie exchange and land use keys for foodtopia
foodtopia plan
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foodtopia model
2. Return to your roots of embracing the outdoors.
Build parks and paths along the boulevard of bovine creatures.
Bask in good weather and among your bestial brethren.
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FOODSHED NY
New York
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site examination and testing of green spaces in queens ny
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peter luger’s steakhouse brooklyn new york
buckhead beef elizabeth new jersey
3. Reclaim the ostracized production facilities of the distant past.
Run the veins of the city through their doors. Line the city with your civil programs. Educate your children in parallel to their sustenance. Abb.33 Abb.
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Inherit these spaces as a community. Bring them to your centers. Filter into and out of them at your leisure. blur the line between production and pleasure
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4. Align yourself with the beast, learn its ways and what it eats and how it moves--confront the tensions that industry has created and open them up, naked once more to the world. Blur the lines between production and pleasure.
In each of us, the revolution begins.
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The current state of affairs five boroughs of new york large green spaces are isloated from steakhouses. the steakhouses are teal satellites, operating solely for consumption. density of queens: population 2,296,175 square mileage 109 square acreage 264 pop. density per square acre 8697
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potential cow park spaces in purple,
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potential steakhouses in white,
existing people park spaces in teal
potential annexations of green corridors in purple
diagrammatic steps of steakhouse transformation from black box to cowhouse 3
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diagrammatic model showing social/ consumptive spaces in teal, production and processing spaces in purple
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site plan with landscaping strategies
cattle pusher
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people pusher
cattle pusher
as designed by temple grandin
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site plan, detail
ground floor
meat / feed storage truck loading dock cow ‘snacking’ area pedestrian parking pedestrian walkway
***where purple represents cow related program and teal represents people related program. all plans 1:30
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first floor
first stage sorting first stage processing refrigerator room changing station sanitation station worker’s lockers menu and ordering pedestrian walkway
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second floor
butchering dry aging room worker’s lounge refrigerator room restrooms coat check pedestrian walkway
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third floor
prep and cooking casual seating dining hall private rooms bar pedestrian walkway
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fourth floor
test kitchen meeting room auditorium offices worker’s cafe sales and retail long bar pedestrian walkway
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sectional perspective. see plans to locate cutline