SARAH’S RANCH

SARAH’S RANCH

Location

Black Rock Desert

Promoter

Land Art Generator

Result

Honorable mention

Year

2020

Design team

Sergio Bianchi with Simone Fracasso, Mariangela De Meo, Angelo Mizzon, Maria Gracia Guerreros

Western anthropocentric society in its expansion process tends to get rid of all species hampering its march. The American West history epitomizes this paradigm: in a short span, at the turn of the nineteenth century 70 million buffaloes were slaughtered, Native Americans were made captives and forced in reservations. Space had to be cleared for the human horde headed west.
What if we imagine a place where humankind moves upward, towards the sky?

What if agriculture is carried on
in a more efficient way in vertical farms?

These questions led to “Sarah’s Ranch” idea.

A new kind of “reservation” concept arises, where humankind’s infrastructures are suspended above the ground to gain a much wider availability of the land.

The ranch/reservation concept overturns the meaning of the term reservation pushing it towards preservation: it conveys the value of freedom opposed to segregation, and the Native belief that the land does not belong to anyone.
The ranch promotes zero impact, with the aim of reducing the environmental, social and economic impact.
The ranch is going to be a lab where zero waste food production is studied and tested, like in Burning Man,where the idea behind the festival is “leave no trace”.