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...

Foodbanism: Strategy of healthy green future for Rotterdam Zuid

The project seeks a strategic planning of integrating urban agriculture into part of the green infrastructure for Rotterdam Zuid, which hopes to open up the possibilities of urban agriculture to inspire people like planners, decision makers and residents. The proposal based on the collaborative communication combining the supportive policy,...

Developing and understanding design interventions in relation to industrial symbiosis dynamics

Symbiotic Urban Agriculture Networks (SUANs) are a specific class of symbiotic networks that intend to close material and energy loops from cities and urban agriculture. Private and public stakeholders in SUANs face difficulties in the implementation of technological and organisational design interventions due to the complex nature of the...

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...

Back to Shenzhen's future: Restructuring metabolism systems for megacities

A strategic, multi-scalar and multi-actor approach to revitalizing the existing water-, waste-. and food systems within the Shenzhen SEZ is assessed and modelled. Concordant local interventions are furthermore implemented, integrating local conditions into the overarching strategy. Furthermore, a phenomenological view of these systems is...

Edible Garden

This thesis is related to following topics: the specific place and metropolis; the interstitial space and genius loci and the experience of landscape and enclosed garden. As the most traditional way that one express his intention and build up a connection with his living environment, can garden still bring us a sense of identification and...

Lucrative Promenades

The design proposal investigates the generation of a possible social and physical structure within the area of the former army campus of Kodra;thus a communal flexible space for people to meet, act, produce and socialize. The general result of this process was to investigate the implementation of computational techniques to generate a building...

Common Ground, School for civic agriculture and urban food systems

Cities are increasingly renewed by large projects rather than by long-term visions and subsequent master planning. Public-private partnerships are organized to engage strategic sites resulting in complex developments. The developments are comprised of multiple and often conflicting interest, which have to be simultaneously negotiated. The...

Farming Guangming: Integrating agricultural landscape and new town development for the “Green City” Guangming in Shenzhen

Hundreds of new towns are being built or planned today in China, which mostly remove the existing agricultural landscape. The study is motivated by a very simple question: instead of being eaten up by new towns, can agricultural landscape perform more actively in the process of development? I pick Guangming, a new town being built in Shenzhen,...

the Living Plant: A building that purifies air and water and at the same time grows food

In my graduation project I use plants to clean air and water and at the same time grow food. In this way I create a system that turns urban waste into food while at the same time providing a nice and green environment. The food that is grown in the system will be sold in the shop and restaurant that are part of it. I want to show with the...

Complexity & Urban Agriculture

Architectural project for urban agriculture was developed in New York City, on East River waterfront in Manhattan. Analysis of the case study site was done by using advanced simulation techniques. Various bottom up computational methods allowed building organization and shape to be optimized in such a way as to more efficiently use natural...

Community gardens as learning spaces for sustainable food practices

Urban agriculture is an emerging topic and it is widely argued that it has considerable potential for sustainable consumption and production. Community gardening is a promising type of urban agriculture and questions have been raised like whether it has additional benefits for sustainable lifestyles and behavior, and we can understand community...

Merwe4 Waterfront Park: The transformation of a post-industrial landscape in the city of Rotterdam

The harbour of Rotterdam will be transformed into a public waterfront, with an integrated dike to prevent flooding. As program urban agriculture will be introduced behind this dikefront. The masterplan is a small intervention which evokes further developments in the area.

Networked System - A Food Hub for Paris

The project aims to deal with the problem of food production and transportation within big metropolitan areas, in this case the city of Paris. The main goal of the project is to develop a new model of urban agriculture capable of working both at a global and local scale. The idea is to integrate a model for the intensive production of food, such...

Growing Future Haiti: Integrating emergent spatial demands into a community-supportive Post-disaster development strategy

After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the world attention shifted towards the country. The event offer the unique opportunity to redesign the post-disaster redevelopment strategy of the informal settlement, housing the large portion of the urban poor population in the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince. This thesis aims at the formulation of a...

The New Allotment: Optimizing Urban Agriculture with Evolutionary Algorithms

An update of the current allotment system in Den Haag on Scheveningen boulevard as a place where both tourist and residents can come to enjoy and learn about fresh produce and sustainable systems. This is an example of using the local conditions (sand) to develop a theme, growing in sand and sand art. The solution uses a powerful multi-objective...

Center for Urban Agriculture

The Center for Urban Agriculture is located in Rotterdam along the Maas River. Considering the problems of climate changing in Rotterdam, the project is defined by three main research themes: urban agriculture, water management and energy management. The idea is to propose a new kind of urban agriculture, the hydroponic cultivation, in order to...

The Urban Tomato

Urban Tomato is a systemathic analysis of urban agriculture in Havana, Cuba. The proposal of a lightweight infrastructure shaped by the built existing environment, aims at breaking the constrictions of the rigid orthogonal city planning by offering a new layer of walkable and productive public space. The socio-spatial characteristics of the city...