Tarkwa Bay Food Hub

The design went under many different permutations over the course of the semester. From the begining of the semester, letting water flow into the site was a must, becasue of the way setting up bays and a place where water can flow when it does get over flooded would really help the community. The sites adjacent to mine all worked on similar projects so we started to incorporate new things into each of our own sites to combine it so that it made sense as a whole. The site next to the food hub shown in red was a 3d printed housing community that would directly benefit from the food hub because of proximity.

Design Process

The design of the overal site included the food hub and a community just on the other side of the river that flows in. There use to be a large number of houses in this area where the communities are located, so it made sense to re-establish them here, but in a different way. The food hub also has a docking point for ships to come in and start a proper import/export route for the citizens of Tarkwa Bay. Relationships like this with other countries are what makes the world go around, so it was an important feature that needed to be added. The communities have private farming, as well as community farming on three islands as shown below. This is to allow the food hub to have a farther reach within the community and to really provide the necessary resources for this community to prosper. At the top of the site plan, there are a row of beachfront housing units, that could be used for tourism because it is one of the main money-making opportunities the people of Tarkwa Bay utilize to survive. Tarkwa Bay is still a nice spot for tourism and does see a good amount of site traffic from tourism, so having something like this for the community to profit off of is nice to have.