UNNLEASH – Confluence

UNNLEASH structure model: an abstract shape made of porous white material.

Another angle of the UNNLEASH structure model.

A line drawing of a city block with windowless buildings, with the UNNLEASHE structure in the lower right hand corner.

UNNLEASH (United Nations North Lawn Environmental Agriculture & Sustainability Headquarters) is an architectural design proposal to replace “UN-KEA”—a nickname for the temporary building that the UN built while the General Assembly and Secretariat office buildings were being restored—once the UN headquarters have completed renovations. Rather than restoring the North Lawn to its former state, demonstrating an aversion to change, my UNNLEASH project would provide a community education center and gardens highlighting sustainable agricultural practices around the world. This piece includes both a scale model and architectural drawings of my design.

This piece was created for an environmental art journal edited by Taylor Brock and Haley Gaston. The journal was their final project for Professor Jim Tolisano’s fall 2014 Interdisciplinary Seminar “Bridging Culture and Nature”