LIC Carbon
City

Columbia GSAPP Man, Machine, and the Industrial Landscape | Summer 2020

Tech Critic: Sean Gallagher

Long Island City has long been an area of bursting potential. With the failure of Amazon’s headquarters, LIC has the opportunity to establish a new cornerstone industry and waterfront experience.

This project looks towards the timber industry to fill this potential. Rather than always relying on an often redundant and transportation intensive global timber network, New York State’s local timber swamps will be able to be harvested and transported directly to New York City, where timber can be processed, manufactured, and brought immediately to the local construction site.

With a self sufficiency network of timber processing as well as timber building construction, Long Island City will become a hub and model of the new Carbon City.