openfabric
francesco garofalo, barbara costantino, matteo bettoni mowing to growing, productive green space in cities competition_ may 2010
dufferent solutions for different building types productive parasite
Food production will colonize the city with different solutions that respond to the wide range of building typologies that characterize the American city. For smaller typologies, a parasite is added to the building to bring new space for agriculture. For bigger typologies, a matrix of typologies are composed to form new levels. The composition of the levels, can be various: agriculture, agriculture and residential, agriculture and offices. Old program is now mixed with food production for a new type of mixed use.
TYPOLOGIES_parasite TYPOLOGIES_layering + working and producing
producing
living and producing
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PLANTING from the White House kitchen garden
broccoli
butterhead lettuce
carrots
chamomile
chard
chives
cilantro
collards
dill
fennel
garlic chives
green oakleaf lettuce hyssop
kale
lettuce
marjoram
onions
oregano
parsley
parsley
red oakleaf lettuce
red romain lettuce
rhubarb
rosemary
sage
shallot
shell peas
sugar snap peas
thyme
spinach
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food production back to cities 1_agriculture from countryside to cities 2_adapt cities to global warming 3_involve citizens with food orientated agriculture 4_economic and ecological improovment (due to reduced transport) 5_use of urban organic waste for agriculture 6_reuse of irrigation water
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water
2010 transportation
waste
food production and ecology
nature as a reference seeds
2050
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matrix
80% of the Nation's consumptive water use goes for agricoltural use
(or more in 60 60% some cases) of all
2
2% of America’s food is locally grown
of every dollar’s 12 12% worth of food consumed at home comes from transportation costs
municipal waste is organic matter
+1.5°c
+1.5°c increased temperature in American cities from 1900 till now
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differentiation
sunflower
typologies
water
rotation
waste
transportation
global warming
To bring agricultural production back to the American city means to change the American city. Our proposal is a strategy, a long term strategy, where green production colonizes the urban fabric aiming to recover the space that the city stole.
colonization overgrowth
The contemporary city offers a wide range of urban voids: vertical surfaces, roofs and unused spaces in which agriculture could easily find a place to be. However, solving the major ecological issues of water consumption, the reuse of organic waste, the reduction of food transportation and global warming will require more than the leftovers of the urban fabric. Agriculture must become a fundamental part of urban life if we are to offer a foundation for real change. A strategy of green colonization is a process that will evolve as natural dynamics do. Seeds, movement, biodiversity and overgrowth became the reference for a new urban dynamic in which matrix, typologies, rotation and colonization are the main actors.
MATRIX matrix for a new urbanity working
production
living
The matrix works as seeds do for plants: adaption and mutation generates different typologies which produce a diverse and various environment. The matrix is a collection of cubes inserted into existing buildings, the cube itself has a shape which is flexible to adapt to different structural systems and dimensions. They can be living units, working units and agricultural production units, which together form a matrix for a new urbanity, changing the existing situation into a farm type urban setting.
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
sept.
october
nov.
december
new level-type old level-type residencial offices agro-production
january
peas level_18,19,20 radishes level_15,16,17 level_14
NOW I KNOW WHERE OUR FOOD COMES FROM...
kale level_11,12,13 chard
level_8,9,10
level_7 radishes level_4,5,6 level_3 level_2 level_1
ROTATION retail
half sun
living
growth
harvest rotation
growth
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harvest
shade
half shade
sun
offices
growth
void
=
rotation
In nature, planting species are able to turn themselves to face the sun, for a better orientation. In the same way, in the layering typologies, the levels can rotate and move along rails providing the agriculture production a better efficiency. In mixed use typologies, the living and working matrix will also rotate giving the food production units a functional supremacy. The rotation will cause infinite variety in the facades with the buildings adjusting themselves inline the seasons - a temporal variety as in nature.
harvest
can a building change with seasons?
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march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
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COLONIZATION With time all building types will become hybrids that provide food, re-use the water needed for irrigation, whilst retaining existing program. Little by little the green colonization will reduce food transport from country side to cities changing radically the agricultural production system.
the green colonisation_ a processual vision
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typology G typology A B C D E F G bulding building typology
colonization food production residential/commercial residential/commercial water waterre-use re-use colonisation phase food production
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