Urban Meal Mine

Sustainable farming for megacities

London, United Kingdom

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Winner

1 Entry

Katarzyna and 2 others

Toolset for a City's Metabolism

We call for embracing voids within urban tissue, not necessarily meaning these should be neglected in planning but rather open for spontaneity. As a spatial tool we propose a structure that can grow and shrink according to the needs and engagement of its creators - the locals. Constructed out of simple scaffolding elements it is fully reusable.

Runner-up

2 Entries

Hùng and 3 others

232

We are how we eat

Nowadays, cities are facing food-related problems which come from the separation between food producers and consumers as well as urban areas and countryside. The New Covent Market located in the Nine Elms District in London is a perfect chance to blur the separation and bring a new sustainable lifestyle to the citizens.

Fernando and UNI

MORAY 2 . 0

The proposal is an agricultural innovation center that functions as a prototype of an endogenous machine. It will have spaces with the appropriate technological equipment for research and testing of cutting-edge methods. Ensuring the continuity of the species over time and its eco-friendly relationship with its ecosystem.

Honorable Mention

10 Entries

Karan and 5 others

Farms to Go

In order to rethink Urban Farming, it is essential that it needs to be a lifestyle choice & an urban intervention network instead of a site-specific design approach.?Farms to Go? is an urban farming kit that enables one to incorporate farming within the urban ecosystem by intervening a generative module at 4 scales ? Individual,Community,Neighborhood & City.

Polina and 4 others

TECHNOFARM

The main idea was to bring the ready-to-consume product as close as possible to the consumer, thereby enabling the city dweller to get vegetables and fruits from a place that ensures their quality and freshness.

ahmed and 3 others

URBAN MEAL FORMICARY

The community of new urban farmers, having an opportunity to set up an agricultural production within a certain environment, where that environment is also the end user, solves many of the economic, logistical and organizational problems typical to traditional farms.

Fanny and UNI

Farming For All

"Farming for All" is a living area that combines different programs focused on harvesting, learning, consumption, entertainment, and housing.

Pavol and UNI

Urban MEAL mine - A7

Concept combines market, mass production, individual farming, community living and education. Enables city to grow its own vegetable and distribute. It is first step in creating network of mines providing such benefits globally Project uses generated pattern to solve multiple problems. - generated growth of units provide huge flexibility and adaptability

Marina and 3 others

City Fields_Wrapped Up

General idea is based on immersion of the landscape principles into an urban context. This act would create new links in both morphological and functional way, becoming an attractive and productive sustainable ecosystem at the same time, combining fields, workshops, hubs public space and markets into one.

Camille and 2 others

Covent Garden Eco-District

The Covent Garden Eco-District is a proposal for an innovative and technology-driven, agrarian, urban development that transforms the existing market structure into a dynamic and integrated community, fostering a sociable, self-sustaining methodology that can become a model for an innovative agricultural urbanism.

Sadaf and 4 others

498

Farmscape

The design is inspired from the traditional geographic farm land pattern of London so it is reflected in design. The iconic form covers majority of the land creating symbiosis between nature and architecture. The necessary functions and programs, zoning and infrastructures are submerged in the design as they will not hamper the natural essence.

Piotr and UNI

URBAN MEAL MILL

Urban meal mine is a manifesto that fits in with the idea of "re-nature city" paying attention to water. Over the centuries, the cities created a barrier between man and water. The proposal is an attempt to restore water to the city and use it as a base for concept. ps. I know that these bracket water collectors are absurd, but they look fantastic!

şeyma and 4 others

Fresh v2.0

The concept of the project is as changing the meaning of fresh, as the outcome of the system not only meets the food need of people but meets them with the freshly picked food. People involved in production process and they are a witness to growing plants. This system will re-code human behaviour to become aware of basic needs of life.

People's Choice Award

2 Entries

Henry and 3 others

481

Futurra

FutuRra is the new place to achieve social and agricultural sustainability for the next few decades, retransform from the new covent market in Nine Elms. It seeks to reconsider the traditional agricultural activities between the land and architecture and also the relationship between farmers and consumers.

harshitha and UNI

427

Meal Minder

The design of Urban Meal minder is such that the 75% of the users nutritional needs is grown by the urbane population and can be purchased at the different floor levels. The Design inspires the users to know better what constitutes a Balanced diet as a daily routine. The space get activated with cultural, social festivals related to agriculture.

Shortlisted

17 Entries

Vincent and 2 others

Cultura

[New Covent Market as Food Hub 2.0] The vision looks to fuse learning, research and generation of food in the new Market. Understanding future food consumption habits is imperative for the Market to be relevant in the 21st Century. The ever-changing food landscape calls for research incubator to be an integral part of any future food hubs.

yan and 4 others

THE FOODPATH

"THE FOODPATH" aims to provide the public an experience the food cycle from cradle to cradle - from public roof farm, to visual education of food chain production, until the food waste treatment process, by an axial footpath, connecting the whole building in different dimension.

Mona and UNI

URBAN MEAL MINE

The building is designed in the form of a continuous connected space that mimics the shape of the Thomas Railway that starts with the informative creative space that sensitizes people about the different parts of the building and whether they should go to the food sector, the market sector or the commercial sector. The informative creative space provides ed

Мила and 2 others

RESIDENTIAL CROP HOUSE

Multifunctionality is the key to the adaptability of urban fabric. This means that vegetables and fruits are still sold on the territory of the forty-year market, but in a very unusual way for us. The resident is now a farmer and can spend time in the garden without leaving the building and enjoy the fruits of his own work. Strength in knowledge.