Studio Moments
Studio Moments
Entanglement
How might civic infrastructure in Ponce be used as a tool to help strengthen community-based food production and informal exchange while supporting everyday cultural life and climate resilience?
The project’s strongest potential lies between food production, cultural memory, and urban life in Ponce. Through our entanglement process, the most generative direction has emerged at the intersection of agriculture as living infrastructure and architecture as a tool to enhance cultural practices. Rather than looking at food production as something external, the project positions it as a main civic driver.
We explored relationships between culture cultivation and architectural systems, which revealed architecture as something adaptive and performative that is able to support harvesting, researching, cooking, and sharing as something interconnected. In this way, the building operates simultaneously as a productive landscape, a research facility, and a public institution. This began to reveal a series of layers, contrasting interior and exterior, material uses, climate-responsive environments, and communal spaces. Circulation becomes a narrative path through food systems, from farming to consumption, making these processes a visible experience.
The project positions itself as a farm-to-table experience where local agriculture, education, and cultural identity are strengthened and shared, reconnecting the community to traditional practices around the use of natural resources, food preparation, and eating.
In this way, the Project Vector helps bring greater focus to the work, being able to be more defined or specific with our intervention proposal. Exploring how it can serve to intensify