MESSAGE 1 : PERCEPTION
MATERIALITY OF THE ALLOTMENTS AND ORCHARDS Allotments
RESEARCH AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
FUNCTIONS OF SPACES IN THE ALLOTMENTS AND ORCHARDS
Orchards Trees
Implementing a space for foxes and humans to interact, these spaces will attract foxes because of the compost heaps of the allotments and an insect ecosystem that will be created. This will create an opportnity to reduce negative perception that foxes have in the public which then helps to understand that they are actually friendly and slowly accepting unwanted animals might help the climate crisis.
EARLY CONCEPT DESIGN
Sketching out the formation of the orchard trees, recognizing its spatial characteristics
Orchard trees within human spaces which will attract foxes to come in the area, as well as providing a fruits and vegetable as sources of food.
Having workshop allotments where humans can experiment with growing vegetables and orchards.
SOFTSCAPE AND HARDSCAPE OF THE ALLOTMENTS AND ORCHARDS PRECEDENT Marco Casagrande plays with the natural landscape through the use of formal and grid like arrangements of plants. This has been used in the proposed scheme as a visual aesthetic that marries both the urban environment with the natural.
Materials Removed
Material Retained
Hardscape and Softscape removal The main aspects and major aspects of this area of the site is that removal of the flooring. most of this area is retained kept as it is to reduce the carbon footprint during the construction process. the material that is being removed is bitmac, which is later used to be one of the main material for the construction of the overground fox dens
Foodscape Schilderswijk by Deborah Solomon
60 minute men by Marco Casagrande
Foodscape Schilderswijk introduces various foodscapes and ecosystems into an urban environment to introduce urban agriculture as a more sustainable mechanism of food production and consumption. This collaborative exercise homes to bring the community of Stockport into the space for foxes as a space made for a variety of actors through the allotment and orchard space.
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