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Manufactured Landscape

GSAPP 2021
team Magdalena Valdevenito
How can NYC’s biggest export profit return to the community?

New York’s biggest export by dollar value is diamonds, which were valued at more than $13 billion last year. How can this profit return to the community in the form of ethically made and environmentally conscious lab-grown diamonds?

Manufactured Landscape rethinks the relationship between the factory and the city, questioning its typology. It functions as a factory, but also remediates the water edge and the area.  





Manufactured Landscape intends to oppose all the processes related to this industry, inverting the vertical and secretive diamond district into a landscape that, instead of eroding the earth, contributes to building its natural habitat and visualizes the craftsmanship and technology behind its sourcing. Each part plays a role in dialogue with the other.

A Productive Space intermingles with an Educational Space over a resilient water’s edge conformed by tidal pods. A Tower sits as a distant marker and air purifier. It is a factory that understands the dynamics of sourcing and strives for the responsible creation of raw materials without the exploitation of natural resources. A factory where the combination of automation and technology plays to collaborate with humans, where labor is considered the most precious good. A machine that cooperates with the environment and understands its change and growth.

Manufactured Landscape intends to oppose all the processes related to this industry, inverting the vertical and secretive diamond district into a landscape that instead of eroding the earth, contributes to building its natural habitat and  visibilizes the craftsmanship and technology
behind its sourcing.
Each part plays a role that dialogues with one another: a Productive space that intermingles with an Educational Space over a resilient water’s edge conformed by tidal pods, and a
Tower as a distant marker and air purifier.

It is a factory that understands the dynamics of sourcing, and strives for the responsible creation of raw materials without the exploitation of natural resources, where the
combination of automation and technology plays to collaborate with humans, and where labor is considered the most precious good,a machines that cooperates with the environment and understands its change and growth.