The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
Twisted Farm
Date 2025
Location Los Angeles, USA
Type Competition
Program Vertical Farm Community Building
Project team Santiago Miret and Melisa Brieva
Collaborators Aina Shamsudeen, Nikolay Petrichenko and
Maya Abu Samra
yac competition 2025 finalist mention
winner
The project proposes an elevated park for the community, allowing a free ground floor for semi-covered and covered exhibition spaces, offices, workshop areas and access to the “twisted” vertical farm.
The proposed park is populated by a colorful gradient of native flowers together with seating areas and open-for-gatherings spaces. It serves as a 24/7 public space for the neighborhood promoting nature and community.
Twisted farm is a community forum for education and promotion of nature and farming activities. The proposal operates within an autonomous ecosystem generating electricity and drinkable water. It is not only a building for education, but a building that educates. It promotes green alternatives for energy and organic ecosystems by passive techniques of production and sustainability.
In a city (and a world) that prioritizes fossil fuel and destructive technologies, Twisted Farm presents an alternative for living, sharing and participating through a synthetic and harmonic assemblage between architecture, technology and nature.
