ReHarvest Tower

ReHarvest Tower proposes a vertical housing typology for Punjabi farming families displaced by the consolidation of agricultural land. The project compresses the rhythms of a horizontal village — sowing, drying, milling, dwelling — into a single tower, stacking productive infrastructure beneath residential floors.

Concept

Decades of agrarian policy and the Green Revolution’s intensification have hollowed out small-holder farms in Punjab. ReHarvest Tower imagines a hybrid building that reconciles dense housing with the ecological and ritual labor of grain production: rooftop drying decks, mid-tower mills, ground-level distribution, and apartments threaded through it all.

Tectonic Strategy

The envelope is built from a kit of three prefabricated panel types — closed wall, perforated screen, and operable louver — assembled on site to give each unit its own facade rhythm tuned to orientation and program. The panel system allows the building to be erected quickly in rural contexts with limited heavy equipment.

Sectional Logic

Reading the tower as a section reveals its programmatic stacking: agricultural infrastructure at the base, mechanized grain processing in the middle, residential floors above, and shared rooftop drying space. Vertical circulation doubles as a chute for harvested grain, collapsing the time between field and table.