Ellipse Greenhouse
ELLIPSE GREENHOUSE
Saw.earth
ARCHITECTS
Saw.earth
LEAD TEAM
Drew Seskunas
DESIGN TEAM
Rayhaan Albuquerque, Yeisy Batista, Devam Desai, Michelle Jungreis, Matan Lobel, Yuan Luo, Angela Madrigal, Mert Osar, Anjali Nilesh Patel, Hetvi Gauravkumar Patel, Meet Hareshkumar Patel, Alicia Daniela Perozo Maldonado, Finley Yaoming Richard
PHOTOGRAPHS
Dan McMahon, SAW.EARTH
AREA
144 ft²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Brooklyn, United States
CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Public Architecture
English description provided by the architects.
SAW.Earth has directed a student workshop to create an ellipsoidal greenhouse, optimizing solar exposure for the Scholes Street Community Garden in Brooklyn, NY.
Over 4 weeks, with students from the New York Institute of Technology Graduate School of Architecture and Design, the team constructed an ellipse-shaped greenhouse with tiered shelving to maximize area along the sun path of the garden.
Students used cedar wood and copper flashing to allow for subtle aging over time.
This marks the sixth completed permanent structure SAW.Earth's program at NYIT SoAD has built, creating structures for community gardens throughout NYC.
