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Milk Crate Farm
November 01, 2011
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I found this on Core77’s site – and loved it.
This is next door to Tom Collicchio’s new restaurant RiverPark. A “stalled” lot, a place where they started building but had to stop due to the economy, these are common in most cities at the moment was used as a temporary farm.
My favorite thing about this is how they came up with the concept :
“Thinking of the necessity of portability for the farm, Kosbau (the designer from Ore design) said, “We started with, ‘Ok, how much can a person carry?’ and we went from there. I think we sat down, and almost immediately thought of milk crates.”
If you start with identifying the right problem to solve, you have a much better chance at a great solution.
Read the whole article here and ask yourself how does this apply to what I’m doing?
Another great solution from Ore Design is coming up soon.
New ideas for old containers… — creatingclever.com
November 7, 2011 at 5:08 am[…] visits’ next time I’m in NYC. Ore Design (you may recognize their name from the milk crate farm I wrote about a few days ago) worked on phase 1. A joint venture of Uban Space and Youngwoo & […]