+ Timber structure, doug fir planks, soil, gravel, plants / 2018
+ 30’ wide x 3' tall x 40’ long
+ Installed at the West Garden of NYCHA's Marble Hill Houses, Bronx, NY
+ Commissioned by OSS Project in collaboration with New York City Housing Authority
OSS Team: Juanli Carriòn, Jacki Fisher, Vicky Zambrano
Fabrication: Anthony del Orbe
Supported by NYC Parks Green Thumb, New York City Housing Authority, Bon Secours Health System
TERRACE is a permanent garden-pavilion with communal spaces for seating, socializing, gathering and growing plants. As one continuous structure, TERRACE is connected by relationships between plants, people and architecture.
This lawn outside the public housing complex has historically been a forgotten area. Through creating shared gardens and social spaces, TERRACE aims to transform the space into a meaningful and joyous community hub. TERRACE aims to empower the Marble Hill Houses residents, in a majority non-white, low-income public housing complex, to grow their own food and to cultivate a sense of ownership in this communal garden.
Within TERRACE, NYCHA residents grow companion plants, or plant combinations that help each other to grow. For plants, this happens in ways like: attracting beneficial insects, repelling pests, providing shade, support or nutrients. These relationships between plants become a representation of working together as a community. TERRACE is also a site for public programming. A large part of TERRACE is that the plant growth part of TERRACE is that the plant growth and the social activity will change over time, making it a really dynamic space that the community can continually find new ways to energize.
+ 30’ wide x 3' tall x 40’ long
+ Installed at the West Garden of NYCHA's Marble Hill Houses, Bronx, NY
+ Commissioned by OSS Project in collaboration with New York City Housing Authority
OSS Team: Juanli Carriòn, Jacki Fisher, Vicky Zambrano
Fabrication: Anthony del Orbe
Supported by NYC Parks Green Thumb, New York City Housing Authority, Bon Secours Health System
TERRACE is a permanent garden-pavilion with communal spaces for seating, socializing, gathering and growing plants. As one continuous structure, TERRACE is connected by relationships between plants, people and architecture.
This lawn outside the public housing complex has historically been a forgotten area. Through creating shared gardens and social spaces, TERRACE aims to transform the space into a meaningful and joyous community hub. TERRACE aims to empower the Marble Hill Houses residents, in a majority non-white, low-income public housing complex, to grow their own food and to cultivate a sense of ownership in this communal garden.
Within TERRACE, NYCHA residents grow companion plants, or plant combinations that help each other to grow. For plants, this happens in ways like: attracting beneficial insects, repelling pests, providing shade, support or nutrients. These relationships between plants become a representation of working together as a community. TERRACE is also a site for public programming. A large part of TERRACE is that the plant growth part of TERRACE is that the plant growth and the social activity will change over time, making it a really dynamic space that the community can continually find new ways to energize.
