City pig farm: A design-based-research on urban livestock farming

Over the last centuries, the global food system has managed to provide a growing global population with more and better food. Yet, the system is criticised for its negative effects, like increasing food miles, monocultures, a lack of transparency and poor animal welfare. The recent trend to farm more food in an around cities (urban and peri...

The potentials of a rooftop greenhouse for an existing mixed-use building towards energy neutrality

The importance of technology in the current architecture practice cannot be denied, as that hasn’t been possible for more than a century. Technology is ever developing and also in the current architectural practice new developments have to be implemented in buildings. In order to keep grip as an architect, of all the technology in buildings,...

Natural dimensions: Cultivation in inner cities. The case of The Hague

My vision on sustainability resulted in a research regarding 'Creating a sustainable living environment; integrating urban farming in existing urban areas in the Netherlands’ and my design, a framework for urban farming in existing urban areas, for the case of The Hague. Graduation at ExploreLab 16

Growing city-Agricultural research station design

Southworks site in Chicago has been a huge vacant land by the lake since U.S. Steel tore down its mills on this spot in 1992. The surrounding neighborhood is currently suffering from unemployment, lack of fresh food, poor living condition and crime, and people in the neighborhood have no access to the lakefront across the Southworks site. I...

Urban farming theme restaurant

My graduation project located in South Chicago. The site is an abandoned industry area which is totally empty now. My design developed from urban idea to building idea to detail idea. The group strategy is to use urban farming to activate the site. My building is an urban farming theme restaurant.

Multi?scale allotment gardening in Q-Port

The goal of this project has been to test if urban farming can help in empty office redevelopment; if it can have an added social, architectural and functional value. The main test object was the existing Q-Port-building in the west of Amsterdam (50% empty at the moment). During the process, architectural aspects like space, form, composition,...

Why throw away 'waste' when you can make food out of it?

In every society people will inevitably generate unwanted and useless material that is called waste. However, this term is very subjective and inaccurate because most of these materials still contain valuable resources like nutrients and moisture. This research focuses on growing vegetables using the organic waste material and waste water from a...

Garden Gate

Making the practical link between urban farming and office vacancy by transforming the Hofpoort with the use of urban farming into a thriving and successful building.