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Harvesting Resilience

Developing the design of a food hub through the adaptive reuse of the abandoned Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory building

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The parcel is surrounded by the “asphalted moat” that Main Street, North Cherry Street and the<br />

adjacent parking lot create. The northern facade of the building faces the encapsulated Fall Kill.<br />

These four bounding elements present each facade with a different set of conditions and external<br />

characteristics--the busy street, the desolate one-way street, the enormous parking lot, the forgotten<br />

creek--that present different scenarios for physical links between building and surroundings.

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