Whole Milk

"Whole Milk" is a contribution to the "Supermarket", a collective project on the spatial implications of the food industry in the Netherlands and beyond, reflating the notion of reshoring—the act of bringing food production back into the dense urban context. The separating zoning of the 20th century along with the global chain of the food...

Modern(ist) cultivation: a semi-institutional building for food culture in Bogota

This projects proposes a semi-institutional building for food production and culture in Bogota, to alleviate the pressure on agricultural land in Colombia as well as to give a close look to one of the answers to important challenges surrounding food today (hunger, resilience, refugees, climate change, territorial conflicts). The project is based...

Insects as a sustainable alternative to feed animals in the city

Insects can be alternative source of nutrients in various parts of the food-chain, as feed for livestock but also human consumption. However, the acceptation of insects as a source of nutrients is low. Insects are in no way a part of western culture except when they are a pest. Insects do play a vital role in upcoming developments such as urban...

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

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,...

i-Food/ AgroCity

2050: The earth’s population as estimated by the United Nations will be 9.2 billion people. In order to be able to sustain this population number and afford a further growth, humankind has to radically change the way we produce, process and consume food. The current food production system abuses the natural environment in a multitude of ways....