Impromptu Farming
Design and architecture approaches to integrating farming and food production into urban and built environments.
Reinventing the food market: Stunning ideas to bring farming into the city, promoting sustainable buying and responsible consumerism.
‘Sprout from sprawl’ - Architecture design competition - Result story
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.
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.
Farming For All
"Farming for All" is a living area that combines different programs focused on harvesting, learning, consumption, entertainment, and housing.
Ashworth Parkes Architects Build a Contemporary Farmhouse That Feels Like It Has Always Been There
A cluster of gabled volumes in brick, flint, and timber replaces a derelict 1940s dwelling on a former market garden in North Hertfordshire.
VTN Architects Wraps Their Own Ho Chi Minh City Studio in a Vertical Tropical Forest
A six-story office in Vietnam's Thu Duc district uses modular planters and passive cooling to achieve a 190 percent green ratio.
Jo Nagasaka Turns a Corner of a Yoyogi Office into a 46 m² Farm Shop and Kitchen
In a quiet residential pocket of Shibuya, Schemata Architects builds a community food hub on a carpenter's budget.
António Costa Lima Restores a 19th-Century Sintra Estate into a Layered Domestic Landscape
Princess Farm rehabilitates a palatial house and its terraced gardens in Sintra's historic center, revealing hidden rooms beneath the hillside.
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.
Lousinha Arquitectos Resurrects a Storied 19th-Century Beach Club as Housing in Praia da Granja
A building that once hosted Portuguese royalty and literary giants returns to life through anastylosis and a bold diagrid steel veil.
URBAN SEED
THE URBAN MEAL MINE OF THE CITY INFRASTRUCTURE THAT HAS A POTENTIAL OF BEING A THREAD THAT IS WOVEN THROUGH A COMMUNITY CREATING A RIGID AND ECOLOGICAL BACKBONE. IT PAVES A NEW WAY FOR CONNECTING NEIGHBOURHOODS, OPEN SPACES AND URBAN MARKETS IN SINGLE ?PLACE.
Super-Farm: Collapsing the Distance Between City Life and Agriculture
A fractal agricultural architecture embeds geodesic domes, rotating ring systems, and closed-loop eco-cycles directly into the urban fabric.
Hivemind: Hexagonal Farming Modules and Serious Gaming on London's South Bank
A beehive-inspired urban agriculture network turns residents into players, blending food production with gamified civic participation.
Farms to Go: A Mobile Farming Kit That Scales from Balcony Pots to City Networks
A modular urban agriculture system operates at four scales, turning redundant truck trailers and warehouses into productive food networks.
Incremental Housing Design with Urban Farm approach
This design emphasizes the residents' use of urban farm spaces combined with their living space.
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