AGRI_PUNCTURE FLORA CITY: WHERE AGRICULTURE MEETS THE CITY GROWTH Site: The future “Flora city” urban area, Tianzhong Town, Changhua county, Taiwan
Before
Now
New Masterplan Challenges the Sustainability in the Region According to a new master plan, the Flora City will gradually develop over 15 years. Until then, major parts of the area will stay empty and arid. New masterplan endangers the local farming practices and brings a number of challenges to the region.
Planned Land Uses
Future
Taiwan
Changhua County
„Flora City“ in Tianzhong
“Flora city” is the area under urban construction around newly built Changua High Line Rail of regional importance. It had been farmer land with 300-year agricultural tradition and complex irrigation system before all of this was demolished for construction of the station and future developments.
Connections. Formally a part of Tianzhong, future Flora city is a large area right in between Beidou, Shetou, and Tianzhong towns, widely used for recreation by towns‘ inhabitants. Chuangua High Speed Railway Station will connect Flora city to the county and the whole Taiwan, but not to the closer towns.
Industrial / Commercial (33%) Residential (23%) Infrastructure (22%) Greenery (12%) Rivers
Scale: 1:15000
Source: Google Earth
0-5 years
Objectives
Challenges - Loss of green spaces - Decrease in biodiversity - Heat islands - Decline of air quality - Destruction of oldest irrigation system in the county
To preserve traditional agricultural practice and sustainable sitespecific recreational practices by infiltrating them into urban culture.
Strategies development
To preserve traditional productive landscape by “acupuncturing” it into urban development of Master plan.
Permanent interventions Temporary interventions Master plan dynamics
5-10 years
10-15 years
Strategies
- Decline of sustainable local farming practice -Reduction of local food supply
Permanent strategy
- Loss of local social activities, centered around agricultural practice - Destruction of local natural and cultural landscape
To improve green areas and river treatment and to use underused spaces for urban gardening.
Temporary Strategy To use the empty lots for agriculture and social activities. After 15 years they will shrink but infiltrate into new urban landscape.
It is suggested not to introduce new practices, but to support and to give space to already existing ones, which are beneficial to public health and community. Due to 300-year agricultural tradition, it is very common to occupy free spaces for gardens, which become the magnets for socializing. Proposed land uses and activities will bring not only agriculture, but also educational, social, recreational and aesthetic qualities. O-5 years
Permanent strategy
Typologies
Agriculture under the bridge
Sport under the bridge
Riverbanks
Community farm
Flora fields
Agriculture experiments
5-10 years
Temporary Strategy
10-15 years
Final Stage
Permanent interventions Temporary interventions Industrial / Commercial Residential
Temporary modules
Agriculture and education
Local markets
“Flora City - where agriculture meets the city growth” Enabling careful urbanisation, which would infiltrate productive landscape and farming practices.
Scale: 1:15000
Planter for Residentil garden
Scale: 1:10000
Yilin Lai, Verónica Aguirre, Yuliia Popova
Urban Ecology and Ecosystem Design - WS 2017/18 - University Stuttgart, ILPÖ - V.-Prof. Jan Dieterle, Nicole Meier