Impromptu Farming
Design and architecture approaches to integrating farming and food production into urban and built environments.
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.
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.
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.
The Rhythm of Seasons
A Farmers' Market Connecting Nature and the City
U FARM Competition
Designing a building revealing the potential in local plant production.
Incremental Housing Design with Urban Farm approach
This design emphasizes the residents' use of urban farm spaces combined with their living space.
