Project by Brandon Israel, Riley Jackes
Our design reimagines Pier 40 as a battery of food, flood power, and human activity. The river powers the turbines. The turbines power food production. Food powers human activity. This raises new questions. Can you play a game of soccer in between the two high tides every day? What happens when food production becomes a response to flooding and occurs directly within the city instead of being imported from Hunts Point. What happens when tidal energy becomes the driver of a new food system. When storm conditions worsen they increase the potential of these systems by bringing more tidal energy and therefore more food production needed in the aftermath of a storm. This project aims to uncover new relationships between program, energy, and climate conditions. It looks at how daily life on the pier shifts in the hours between high tide and low tide and how these shifting conditions create a new ecology of food, recreation, and tidal power.
