The Biofuelery:
Rejuvenating the Red Hook Brooklyn Grain Terminal.

Pratt Institute GAUD, Fall 2019
Professor Alexandra Barker, co-teacher Mor Segal

An adaptive-reuse studio exploring the “artificial-natural”, anamorphic projections, and the Anthropocene epoch. The Biofuelery contains a symbiotic program of oyster and algae aquaculture, local food production and storage, brewing, and baking. This massive urban infrastructure will be transformed into a generator for healthy community life, providing for-profit farming and community gardens. Monumental grain silos that were never meant for human occupation will be re-originated through subtraction, creating varied circulation paths, planter space, and platforms. Visitors will experience a vast, open, biophilic great hall, filled with cut silos and subnature, overgrown by greenery both cultivated and wild.