The Farmacy
A new small scale pharmaceutical production site
R. Scharff (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
S.E. Frausto – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Berlage)
C.H.C.F. Kaan – Mentor (TU Delft - OLD Complex Projects)
H.P.S. Corbett – Coach (TU Delft - Berlage)
J.L. Groen – Coach (TU Delft - Berlage)
Olaf Gipser – Coach
Ido Avissar – Coach
T. Weaver – Coach (TU Delft - Berlage)
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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.