Food Hub

The food hub program consists of a large building for food storage, a learning facility, fresh market, restuarants, auditorium, offices, a cafe, docking area for ships, and various farming practices. One of the main reasons for a food hub is to ensure the people of Tarkwa Bay have the tools they need to grow food and to ensure there is enough of it. Being able to utilize land in this way is very beneficial for a communities growth. All along the site's riverwalk has concrete poles for citizens to come and dock their boats here, seeing that this is the main way they travel and circulate around.

The community aspect of this project was added on later in the semester because, as a class we were not providing enough housing for the community becuase of all the different projects taking place, we soon realized everyone should be adding in communities where they once were. This only aided the overall food hub concept and being able to outreach the basic idea into the communities was essential to the design.

Here is how the communities are layed out, there are mainly just houses here along with farming, but each set of communities also have a school house with them. The idea of being able to have everything you would need within a walk or boat ride is the thinking behind this. The communities also have small bridges that would actually get them all the way to the mainland where all the other projects were located as well. Each of the houses are layed out similarly and different options as far as layouts, like houses anywhere else in the world do.

3D Layout

This is how the community would look essentially, where you have small housing units that are able to house a small family, with options that are a little larger for larger families. Here you can see the school house colored in blue. The farming areas are colored in darker green for visual context. The pedestrian bridges are also shown in this 3d image. The overall goal of this layout is to give it a sense of community where it once was.

This is how a typical house would be layed out, where you have the utility areas separated from the living quarters to allow for through and through circulation being that there is not air conditioning and/or proper waste disposal in these areas. This is how most homes in Tarkwa Bay are set up becasue it is most efficient for them.