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Focusing on the embedment of a space for inner city food production to supply local food kitchens, a closed system utilizing hydroponics and aeroponics, a microcosm of growth, decay, and regeneration avoids consuming outside resources. Through the incorporation of growth beds, aquariums, compost, and small animal pens, the natural cycle that occurs in nature becomes downscaled into a concentrated urban scale, becoming hyper-synthetic, operating on a 24 hour growth cycle. In consequence this project is also open to the public 24/7. The versatility and engagement created through the ability to view a space of production facilitates public engagement as the system completes its primary purpose of food production. Public engagement is achieved through the promenade and exhibitionism of the various components at hand, from the farming and harvesting, to distribution, as well as atmospheric biproducts that influence the affect of the public park, as it circumnavigates all systems involved in production. Through these methods, recreation and function have become meshed together to create a space in between spaces, open and welcome to all.