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Elevated Grazing

Spring 2023 - Design Studio Arch 601
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Critic: Anthony Gagliardi
Collaboration with: Sahil Shah,  Joyce Zhang

Goats are browsing animals, meaning they prefer to search for their food, and explore the surrounding environment. Goat farms in Phily are mainly herding farms, which limits the possibility of brwosing. We intend to create an ecology-friendly farm that allows goats to browse for their food and explore the field. Human interactions are welcomed in the farm, allowing neighborhoods to experience semi-wild living condition of goats. This is a high-tech futuristic building which shows up as a clean area where occasional trees and vines grow out for goats to browse. It could be a combination of one facade being super wild (rocks and grass) and another facade being super high-tech (metal+grass growing out from the rock gaps.

This Project was a short competition project that only last a week, each group was assigned with a topic to
work with on the same warehouse in Philly, ours, obviously is goat farm. We start with using Midjourney to
generate images that makes the interior of the warehouse feel like caves, to combine natural scene with
artifical context.  We aimed to create environment for goat that is similar to their original habitat. The interior and exterior blend together, make the concept of merging natural context into the warehouse even more. The
challenege was mainly how we can translate the AI images into actual architecture and how can it make
sense.


Harris Yuxiang Hao - Portfolio - Selected Work 2018-2025