Who wrote "STACKED-STOCK"?

This article was written by Ananya Biswas and published on uni.xyz, a platform for design professionals and creative thinkers.

What is "STACKED-STOCK" about?

This article covers topics related to Vertical Farming, Stackable, Agri-urbanism, Urban Design. AN APPROACH TO VERTICAL STACKING OF CATTLE FARMING.

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Livestock industry is being unproductive majorly because of the environment factors and rapid urbanisation that leads them to growth in a closed space with limited access to their own behaviour. The productivity decreases when the surrounding does not favour, for humans as well as for the animals. Due to these bad designs, humans are suffering since they are the main consumers of the dairy and meat products.

Concept behind the project: problem identification and solving, thinking more about the well-being of the animal. The whole design is viewed as a circle. If we provide a better design for the livestock, the animals will stay healthy and happy. The dairy production will be more and we will be benefited with better products. Hence both the producers and consumers will benefit from a single approach.

To give this a start we studied the cattle psychology, their movement pattern, activity pattern and behaviour. To get the basic idea of how many animals to include in the farm of 100, case studies were done. What type of design would favour the cattle and what would be the requirements.

Several building standards of various countries were studied to find out what kind of design would suit every type of climate, working pattern and functionality.

Then the Global problem in the cattle industry was identified.

Problem: shortage of feed and fodder.
Cause: rapid urbanisation, shortage of grazing areas
Solution: providing vertical grazing platform
Problem: diseases in livestock
Cause: no proper medical facility, no awareness
Solution: providing segregated health-care and isolation ward for sick cows.
Problem: Milk spoiling and loss in the dairy industry
Cause: unsanitary conditions, no cold storage, extreme climate condition
Solution: providing proper storage units, proper functionality of spaces, using materials to help the ventilation of the area.
Problem: unsanitary conditions of livestock
Cause: drainage problem
Solution: providing proper drainage system
Problem: waste dumping
Cause: no manure system
Solution: Establishing a manure system.

Hence the design is made solving these problems.