ATLANTA
SCHREBERGARTEN
Speculative
Spring
 2024
The site I was given was on a heavily polluted freight railroad edge, and as such I chose to begin the design with a 5 year bioremediation plan using windrows to slowly and naturally minimise soil contamination. These double as landart and noise reduction rows for the surrounding housing.
At the end of these 5 years, rather than plant housing uncomfortably close to a rail line, this project took inspiration from schrebergartens around Europe to give the nearby public access to an outdoor ammenity.
The land is redistributed into schrebergarten plots, each to be rented out to a local family for a minimal price that covers the tax on the land and the small amount of communal maintenance necessary. Profit is not the goal.
The plots would each have on them a small hut, designed and built by the occupents themselves, and the architectural aspect of this studio is an exploration into the typology of hut, meant as a nod to “One House per Day,” Andrew Bruno’s well known Instagram account and book.
Design and Research Studio II:
Andrew Bruno