1. Human Effort; Disaster, Resilience 2. Food Security; Yield and Growth, Self-SufďŹ ciency 3. The Architecture of the Self-Built
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Rockhampton City Farm & Visitor Centre Ololade Adeniyi Winter 2016
C.H.A.O.S_Mind_1.pdf Winter 2016
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Contents
Human Effort Disaster, Resilience x
Food Security Yield and Growth, Self-Sufficiency xx
The Architecture of Self-Built An End to the Reign of the ‘Master Builder’ xxx
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Human Effort Disaster, Resiliance
Human Effort The following is an introduction to the impacts of natural disasters on rural cities and towns and the spiraling consequenses that follow.
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Human beings are increasingly aware that architecture cannot save us. In times of disaster and societal turmoil, it would be foolish to believe that architecture is capable of resisting external forces. When it rains, it will flood and buildings will fall down when the earth trembles. This case study has asked the question, how can we embrace the departure of the over reliance on architectural prejudices in future or disaster proofing? I wish to consider the communal act of building, an act not reserved for few intellects or specialists but the spontaneous and continuant activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting under a community of experience. As climate change persists and flooding continues to occur frequently in rural cities like Rockhampton, we witness not only unsuitable designs failing, but ill-planned food systems taking a worse turn. Today, the exposure of low income area to natural disasters can have a significant impact on food production and food crisis. Nearly a quarter of damages wrought by natural disasters are borne by the agricultural sector (FAO, 2015). In this connection, an understanding of the interplay between the occurrence and the impact of natural disaster on food crises and how the availability of macroeconomic buffers could help to mitigate the impact of such shocks is important. During the 2011 Queensland floods, several towns such as Rockhampton were cut off for up to two weeks, preventing food resupply. As one of the fundamental human needs, this vulnerability is important to and therefore I propose an exemplar for a catalyst.
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Because in order to reduce the insecurity of food during floods in Rockhampton, there must be the development of strategies that respond to the unique risks to which different ecosystems and livelihood groups are exposed. Every flood season, Depot Hill (south of the CBD) bears the grunt of the inundation. This is exactly where a community grown initiative in the lowest area of disadvantage has the best 'soil' for the development of new economic and agricultural self-sufficiency. From the food security report of 2015 by the Queensland government, it was found that: 1. Climate change is making weather patterns more extreme and unpredictable, with serious consequences for Australia’s agricultural production. These challenges could result in imports of key agricultural commodities such as wheat increasingly outweighing exports. 2. More frequent and intense heatwaves and extreme weather events are already affecting food prices in Australia. Food prices during the 2005- 2007 drought increased at twice the rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) with fresh fruit and vegetables the worst hit, increasing 43% and 33% respectively. 3. Climate change is affecting the quality and seasonal availability of many foods in Australia.
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Many foods produced by plants growing at elevated CO2 have reduced protein and mineral concentrations, reducing their nutritional value. 4. Australia is extremely vulnerable to disruptions in food supply through extreme weather events. Without addressing and redesigning farming practices to suit rural cities, impacts will be felt most strongly where supply chains are disrupted, as market prices increase, assets and livelihood opportunities are lost, purchasing power falls, and human health is endangered, leaving affected people are unable to cope. However it is more than just the crisis itself; it is the fundamental changes that follow crisis—changes not just in how we make and consume goods, but in how we live and work. This is why it is so important. Therefore I use this project to tell a story of how the opinions and suggestions of the community in a local area can be used to build what we call Vernacular 2.0. A typology united through a common goal to discover new ways of enhancing food security in the built environment.
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Human Effort Disaster, Resiliance
As architects of the future it is important to step back from being the ‘Heroes’ or ‘Master buildings’. We need to become facilitators of the ideas of other people, to design based on what people need, to be generous and kind and humble in our approach to the sensitivity of design.
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Food Security Yeild and Growth, Self Sufficency
Food Security The following is an investigation into food security measures and vertical farming structures using repurposed materials
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As aforementioned in Chapter 1 “Human Effort”, the impacts of flooding in Rockhampton is especially severe due to the cause and effect of roads shutting down and limited access to and from the city. Methods of transporting food through the city in the event of a flood will be discussed in Chapter 3 “The Architecture of Self Built”, however here it is important to examine the depth of solutions that can be offered to develop a food secure and resilient city. To achieve an overall reduction in food insecurity in our population, our actions need to target disadvantaged groups that experience higher rates of food insecurity. Improving access to healthy food in Australia is critical to improving health and quality of life. However, the problems that result in food insecurity are complex and the solutions are not simple. Reducing food insecurity will require a combined effort from governments, industry and the community. Individual food insecurity comes from sustained low income combined with other factors, which vary from individual to individual and family to family. These factors include other demands on the family budget, disability, social and physical isolation, frailness, chronic illness, poor money management skills and lack of access to reasonably priced food.
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Food Security Disaster, Resiliance
Some people may also lack the knowledge and skills to make appropriate choices or lack the skills or facilities to appropriately store and prepare food. Improving food security cannot be achieved by governments alone; again ,it will take combined effort from national and local governments, industries and community. We support food security by maintaining a strong economy that generates ongoing employment growth and by providing effective schemes to help people enter employment. Helping people into a rewarding job is one of the best ways to ensure they can afford the food that they need. If produce was grown in Rockhampton for the main purpose of feeding it’s citizens, this would begin to solve a majority of problems. There will be no need for expensive imports as food miles will be incredibly low and food will be extremely fresh. 1. Food availability refers to the physical existence of healthy food. Food availability is affected by: • location of food outlets • availability and variety of food within stores • price and quality of available food
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2. Food access refers to the ability of an individual, household or community to physically get their hands on healthy food. Food access is affected by: • availability of funds to purchase food • ability to physically get to food outlets and transport food 3. Food utilisation refers to the way food is prepared once it has been accessed. Food utilisation is affected by: • storage, preparation and cooking facilities • nutrition knowledge • food preparation skills • Cultural considerations • social environments for preparing and enjoying food
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Main Facilities Stage One: Pre Flood
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The Architecture of Self-Built An end to the Reign of the ‘Master-Builder’
The Architecture of Self-Built The following is an investigation and proposal for a future of self-built architecture; a typology of architecture without architects.
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The mythology of the sole genius underpins most contemporary creative disciplines, but it is particularly pronounced in architecture, where the image of the visionary diva-architect endures as the gold standard of the discipline’s success. In 1964, Moravian-born American writer, architect, designer, collector, educator, designer, and social historian Bernard Rudofsky examined a whole other side of architecture in Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture — a fascinating lens on “primitive” and communal architecture, exploring both its functional value and its artistic richness, with a focus on indigenous tribal structures and ancient dwellings. Rudofsky peels the pretence of architecture from the creative and utilitarian acts of building to reveal a kind of vernacular, communal architecture embodying a timeless art form that springs from the intersection of human intelligence, necessity, and collective creativity. Similarly in the 1960’s, Archigram members aligned themselves against the canon of conventional architecture, especially the idea that the architect's job is to design a fixed form for buildings and cities. Instead, their object was adaptive architecture—architecture that could somehow change shape to accommodate the emergent needs and desires of its users.
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The Architecture of Self-Built An End to the Reign of the ‘Master Builder’
Ron Herron's 1964 designs for the Walking City are emblematic: pictures of a city as a single, vaguely organic, engineered unit on legs. If the city loses the rationale for its location, well, it can just go somewhere else. These two conceptual theories have inspired the final product of the Rockhampton City farm which is a moving train system that transports food from Depot Hill into the main city in the event of a flood thus ensuring that access to fresh food and vegetables is available to all residents without having to rely on external assistance from government aid. These moving train structures like the others in the ‘Workshop Extension’ are constructed entirely by repurposing discarded materials around town. Each individual is welcome to propose an idea and have the opportunity to also build it as it seems fit. Archigram advocated indeterminacy in architecture in opposition to the fixed programme and form of modernism. By ‘indeterminacy’ the members meant architecture that was changing and changeable, but they also meant design without architects
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Archigram Exemplar: ‘Walking City’ & ‘Instant City’
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Alternative Power S o u r c e s f o r t h e Tr a i n - Lemon Juice -Electric Eel -Methane Gas
Repurposed Building Materials -Roof Shingles -Timber -Steel -Salvaged Materials
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Reflection
The following is a reflection on the design process, research, and theory behind the Rockhampton City Farm and Visitor Centre.
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Looking back, the idea of the Rockhampton City Farm and adaptive Visitor Centre emerged through a complex investigation into the current social state of Rockhampton, and the obvious need for a strategy that addresses real issues such as food security and resilience in the event of a natural disaster. The proposal though conceptual in nature suggests highly possible responses to the many economic, social and environmental vulnerabilities in Depot Hill and the greater Rockhampton region. From greater master planning macro strategies such a new elevated train line, to micro community vegetable gardens and farming workshops, the proposal embraces a bottom up strategy of architecture that is so highly beneficial and valued by rural communities. Three topics guided this design, Human Effort, Food Security & The Architecture of Self-Built.� The common thread of what I wanted to explore here was to acknowledge people; their individual minds, and unique lives. The themes behind this project examine how each individual is able contribute to a larger society, and how can architects can provide platforms for communal ideas to be realised. From the wheelchair bound citizen who helps run workshops, to the builder who spends his weekends repairing, the Rockhampton City Farm is built, managed and nurtured by the people, for the people. I chose to approach this assignment mostly through writing, and conceptual 3d modelling and CAD drafting. These are three of my greatest strengths, particularly architectural dissertationa direction I wish to pursue in the future.
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The reason I chose these mechanisms especially to explore the story of Stage One: Pre-Flood though a graphic novel was because I wanted to describe my idea through storytelling mechanisms as a way of allowing others to personally insert themselves into the plausible manifestation of the idea. While most people are able to understand plans and sections, sometimes they lack a quality of everyday language and establishment of personal relationships that allows connections to develop even before the design is realised. Sometimes we need to tell our future clients a story of possibilities. The concept detailed in my final presentation is Stage Two [2116]: the Travelling Visitor Centre. This was more of a focus on the final output, a forecast of an activity that would be taking place 100 years in the future which we arrive at after telling the background storytelling in the graphic novel. All in all, while my ideas for this “Visitor Centre� may be a little left of centre to a traditional approach in design school, I do hope they offer an alternative perspective into the research, methodology and presentation of architectural ideas.
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