The UN has mandated insect-sourced protein a major component to solving global food production problems. This impacts people globally, as raising livestock is not possible at our current rate of consumption and resource extraction. A low-carbon protein source, crickets are a key option to provide people with required protein, considering the impending food crisis. The displayed circulation system articulated on exterior integrates the bio-units into one agricultural system for crickets.

Interior, housing 224 biounits for 22,000 crickets. Modular bio-units designed to fulfill cricket specific spatial needs, allowing them to thrive and reproduce within the system, and providing appropriate spaces for hibernation, easy harvesting, feeding, sorting the young from the old, breeding, and longitudinal circulation. As a modular unit it is accessible as a community agricultural tool, adaptable to any existing urban space: community gardens, empty lots, rooftops, and waterfronts.

Visual comparison of land/water use, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste between cow and cricket.

Research on cricket life cycle and habits and its implications and expression in space and volume.

Quills magnify chirping, linked arches and colonies for genetic propagation and electronic monitoring.

Adaptable agricultural system, applicable for various urban conditions from empty lots to rooftops.

The crickets desire for ventilated spaces and porous surfaces led to manipulations of the form.

Details of dial locked combined feeding and harvesting gates.

Sex pods facilitating interaction to encourage reproduction integrated in a multi-use chamber.

Sex pods facilitating interaction to encourage reproduction integrated in a multi-use chamber.

Maria Aiolova and Mitchell Joachim, Co-Founders, Terreform ONE.

Winners of an Acknowledgement prize for their Modular edible insect farm, New York City (l-r): Jury member Forrest Meggers, Professor at the School of Architecture and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment at Princeton University, NJ; prize winners Mitchell Joachim and Vivian Kuan of Terreform ONE; and Maik Strecker, Head Growth & Innovation North America, Holcim.

Vivian Kuan (l) and Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE, Brooklyn, New York received an Acknowledgement prize for their modular edible insect farm.

Presentation to the winning teams of the four Acknowledgement prizes (l-r): Vivian Kuan and Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE; Maik Strecker, Head Growth & Innovation North America, LafargeHolcim; Anyeley Hallova, project^ and Thomas F. Robinson, LEVER Architecture;Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee & Associates; John Stull, CEO Cement LafargeHolcim US; Stephen Luoni, University of Arkansas; Jury member Forrest Meggers, Professor at the School of Architecture and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment at Princeton University, NJ; and Marty Matlock, University of Arkansas.

Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, Co-Founders, Terreform ONE.