The Farmacy

A new small scale pharmaceutical production site

Master thesis (2019)

Authors

R. Scharff Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

S.E. Frausto Berlage - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
C.H.C.F. Kaan OLD Complex Projects (mentor)
H.P.S. Corbett Berlage - Architecture and the Built Environment (coach)
J.L. Groen Berlage - Architecture and the Built Environment (coach)
Olaf Gipser (coach)
Ido Avissar (coach)
T. Weaver Berlage - Architecture and the Built Environment (coach)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2019 Ramon Scharff
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Published Date

01-02-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

This project explores the realities of production in the Irish landscape, and speculates upon certain industries that maintain both a rural economy and Ireland’s architectural identity. The essence of this project as the name suggest, is to combine two residual industries in Ireland, farming and the pharmaceutical industry into one new synthetic architectural type, The Farmacy. These Farmacies, house a pharmaceutical production facility within the traditional scale of the smallholding or farm, while using the authentic spatial model of the Irish monastery. It provides an alternative to the existing fragmented pharmaceutical production landscape. In its density, scale, repeatability and seriality it continues to define an architecture of rural Ireland, while they also give a much-needed identity to an economically important emerging industry.