The Fertile City: Raising Food Awareness Through Architecture

Cities are attracting people increasingly because of the work opportunities, universities and wide range of facilities. It is estimated that the world population will grow up to 10 billion people by 2050 with the majority living in cities. In Europe 80% of the population will live in cities by that time (Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

Amsterdam Food Factory: An architectural investigation in inner city, high tech food production

The thesis focusses on the architectural investigation of modern food production techniques. Feeding our cities becomes an increasing train on our environment and our society has never been as much disconnected from the origins of the nutrition as in our current time. <br/><br/>The thesis proposes a food production laboratory at the border of...