AGENCY architecture LLC

Super Levee Urban Farm . Terreform ONE . One Prize Competition

photos: Terreform ONE

The project proposes a global system of levees, serving also as a new  brand of urban farms at the city's edge, preserving local ecologies while protecting cities from emerging dangers.  Each stage of the levee supports the next.  Clippings, compost, and surplus crops from farming levels are used as nutrients and food for a series of fish farms, marshes, and restorative dune ecologies.  Waste from marine life and nutrients from algal habitats are then used to fertilized farm levels, making the levee a complete ecology.