The Elegance of Vertical Farming: Architectural Design of Building Integrated Plant Factories with Artificial Lighting

With phenomena such as population growth and urbanisation, expanding cities no longer derive their food supply from their hinterlands but rely on the global food trade which includes vast greenhouse and open-field agriculture. Given the limited availability of land, water and nutrients together with the uncertainty of a changing climate, the...

Garden in the Machine

This project incorporates a wide range of cultural and historical references, using the archive footage of the construction of the Flevopolder, the Venetian polder landscape, Robert Smithson’s work on territories and mines and Roman mythology to construct a narrative about new towns, and new beginnings. Situated on the threshold between the...

NeighbourFOOD: Raising food awareness in the future city

The studio that I chose to participate was ‘Dutch Housing: Stronghold Amsterdam’. The topic of this studio as mentioned in its studio manual concerns problems with ecology, climate, overpopulation, mass-migration, a shifting global power balance, changing demographics, etc., cities like Amsterdam will face in the future. But the question is: how...

Cultural Heritage Counts for Parrano: Study on the use of cultural heritage for redevelopment of vacant farmhouses in Central Italy