BURGER-OLOGY - GALAPAGOS STUDIO REFLECTIVE JOURNAL by Simrat mehta

BURGER-OLOGY

SAVING GALAPAGOS WITH A SIDE OF MUSHROOMS & COFFEE STUDIO 05 | REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WEEK 1-12 SIMRAT KAUR MEHTA 794105

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Week 01

Week 02

Week 03

Week 04

Week 05

Week 06

Week 07

Week 08

Week 09

Week 10

Week 11

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Week 12

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Big idea

After being introduced to the complex one sided economical and social system at play in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in Galapagos, I started looking over the research material to understand this system a bit more through data. Some of the research papers and articles we read - Climate in Galapagos - Galapagos Complex System by Ganzales, Montes - Food, agriculture and social change Upon reading these and scribling down notes as I was reading them, some of the points noted in the first instance were > Agricultural culture is lacking on the island > A huge gender and social gap within the local communities > Access to fresh food is impacting the everyday lives in a great manner > Tourism is the main driving force of the economy leading to a losided growth > Clashes between the conservationalist and the local people > Lack of education amongst the locals

Scribles from my journal

Sketching out the linkages between tourism and agriculture

Coffee as the current money bagging crop

Research process - Goal As a group, we were researching on the importance of agriculture and its social impact thats its disruption or lack of is having on the local economy and residents of PBZ. We began asking ourselves big picture questions What is resilience and how can it be implemented in an active strategy How can we formulate an endogenious solution? What are the some of the current problems on the island and how can they be turned into a resource instead of a menace?

Brainstorming Collage ideas We as a group were looking at precendents and images that was focussing on one key issue in a social setting. We were questioning the lopsided role of tourism alongside the pressing need of conserving the giant Turtoise and growing the Galapagos coffee without eroding the soil.

Process

Initial Sketches by Samanatha

Process diagrams by Samanatha

Goal 1. Collage needs to focus on the turtoise as the key resource 2. Responsible Coffee Agriculture and the growth of the local economy 3. Focusing on the potential of agro-tourisim

WIP

Tortoises all the way down! Over the years, large parcels of humid lands have been abandoned by farmers who see tourism as a better income prospect which has put the humid highlands in a vulnerable place to invasive species. With that, it starts a vicious cycle of losing lands and increasing expenses as the socio-ecological system and local food security have been threatened, and the dependence on imports increases. Seeing how interlinked agriculture and tourism are, our idea is to introduce a resilience-based approach to this complex system to regenerate a cycle of subsistence and balance between human and endemic species in the Galápagos Islands. Taking advantage of the unique geographical location and microclimate created by ocean currents, we want to promote agrotourism to diversify the economy and protect the fragile highland ecosystem, as it is also the habitat of endemic birds and the Galapagos giant tortoise. Even though the periodic migration of giant tortoises brings some agricultural losses, we also see opportunities to re-adapt native “pests” as a resource for economic diversification. Our aim is to reduce the reliance on imports, with a target on agrotourism and an emphasis on dynamic variables forming an adaptive change cycle. We envision an endogenous solution that revolves around the use of abandoned farms as an experimental conservatorium – a brewery laboratory. The labs provide a safe environment for coffee farming to increase productivity, and knowledge of advanced agricultural techniques while allowing people to experience the process and exposure to native flora and fauna, bringing direct benefits to the community and forming a healthy adaptive system. To conclude, they say it’s “turtles all the way down” or in this context it is “Tortoises all the way down”!

Big idea

HISTORY OF THE ISLAND UNTIL PRESENT 18

STATUS QUO OF THE ISLAND

More brainstorming. During class, looking at the other groups presentations and reflective thoughts we as a group were pushed into looking beyond just the surface level big picture. One of the exercises that help clear my thoughts and articulate it well is to continuously note down the key points whether in a tabular form or a flowchart manner.

More brainstorming. Reading on the impacts of climate change on soil One of the areas that interest me is climate change and in the previous papers and some of the research from the other members in the studio highlighted the strong impact of climate change on the soil quality and therefore the agriculture of the island. This made me look into the impact of climate change on the everyday lives of the localites and how this could be addressed as one of the main goals of our strategy as a group.

Diagram, Heavy metal contents, mobility and origin in agricultural topsoils of the Galapagos, Dinter, T.C. et al. (2021) Islands

Key Points

- Zinc and phosphorous elements are high in the soil due to fertilisers and manures over the years - Cd levels in the soil are high because ○ Anthropogenically the soil is acidic because of its volcanic basis ○ Invasive plants which already have a high Cd increase the Cd levels in the top soil making it carcinogenic . For humans. It can cause renal tubular damange - Cd in humans has a biological half-life of 15e20 years; therefore, prolonged exposure to moderately contaminated food has a greater effect than the occasional consumption of food products with high Cd levels

Observation

- Better education to farmers on the active management of land is essential - With high heavy metal content in the soil due to the bad practices of agricultural activity and livestock, there is a threat to food security on the island - Maybe the native species such as the tortoise could help be a natural neutraliser through its migratory paths through the farms.

Big idea & Data

Feedback - Assignment 1 The concept of using agrotourism as a location of an alternative and wider basis for tourism in Galapagos is sound. This integrates the realities of a tourism economy, which requires physical presence in the fragile ecology, with a context for engagement. By taking on abandoned land, it gives purpose to the land and to the agricultural activity. There is a larger context too – the active process of shrinking the human footprint through intentional work, rather than the passive one of abandonment that has the consequential problems of the spread of invasive species through negligence. Human settlements in many places in the world are shrinking – do we just abandon them or work to reduce our impact on the natural systems. You need to develop this idea then by articulating what activities and processes roll back the human interventions. What are the intervention (as distinct from negligence)? How is the act of removal and retraction part of the intervention? In this you have to recognise that tourist come because of the distinctive experiences of the island and the integration of marine and terrestrial ecological systems. You cannot focus on just one aspect as it is all a system, of which your intervention is a part. Your concluding reference brings to mind this thought: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/world-turtle-cosmic-discworld

Key statments that we highlighted to focus on from our feedback

alternative and wider basis for tourism in Galapagos is sound. Shrinking the human footprint

Articulating what activities and processess roll back the human interventions Act of removal and retraction part of the intervention

From our feedback we reflected that we required a more active solution that was resilient and adaptive to form an open loop system that was able to mitigate the conflict between the conservationalist and the human intervention on the island. Conservation and a sustainable and realstic economic growth both need to grow hand in hand, simultaneously.

Refocusing on the big idea Self Critical Feedback • • • • •

Bad at presentation. Lots of text but less graphics to explain the thought process The presentation can be more clearer and consice by sticking to one point Need to focus on 5 different strategies pointing to the same thing - one big goal How am I contributing to the group? Avoid using words like

Solution

Problems Masterplan Aim to -

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WIP strategy ideas on focusing on coffee and climate change received feedback that drew our emphasis on a data that was not specific just to damaged soil and climate change, but to focus on the bigger picture data that could help strengthen our strategies and goals.

Land abandonment

Economic security

Food Security

Refocusing 1.

Lack of cultural identity on the island

High Population density per km

Invasive species invading

Loss of agricultural land

Increase in current food imports from Eduador

Limited economic diversification

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12% private land • 11.6% Agricultural land - Highlands • 42% livestock • 43% crops • 15% private farms/abandoned land 0.4% Urban areas - Lowlands 88% national park

Data on Women and Children • • • •

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High income children will have 3.5 food groups per day 35% women reported consuming 3 fewer food groups per day than their children Access to farm land is more common to the rich Imported food has shipping delays and is often not fresh when it reaches PBZ

Climate change and food security

Increase in precipitation due to climate change Low pH value in soil Leaching has decreased nutrient levels Increasing the tolerance of invasive species

resolve

Galagapos’s

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broken cycle one needs to restructure the existing variables of the system. Our findings have pushed us to explore a scaleable agro-ecological concept that aims to resolve a few fundamental issues on the island lack of economic diversification, lack of resilience, Tourism depedant, food insecurity and food discrimination, climate reselience. With the latest demographic indicating that a large number of women live in the urban areas vs the rural areas, they have less access to fresh food that often is sourced at farms at a higher cost. The gendered bias causes problems such as underweight and an unhealthy lifestyle diseases Thus we aim to resolve this by creating small scale farms that are scaleable in urban communitues. With active land management we aim to maintain protected ecosystems, in both urban and farm settings keeping in mind growing tourism and migration to the island.

Strategy & Data

Land use

Urban agro Employement Food security Emmigration

Processed food

Missing food groups

Limited access to different kinds of snacks

income disparity

Missing food groups Lack of education and knowledge

hot dogs and sausages

Diabetes and overweight

Boredom Eating unhealthy and cheaper alternatives

CHILDREN

WOMEN

Using Food as a driver of change and implementer of food security and economic identity especially amongst single women and economically weaker children

Lack of access to a better lifestyle 80% of the women living in urban areas, they have less access/impact on farm based agro communities Malnutrition

Opportunity to generate income from home can create small scale urban farms in urban areas that contribute to local food supply and women involvement

Low Food security amongst women

Food Groups amongst women and children

Land Management Diagram

Alluvial Food diagram

Strategy storyboarding Goal: The Goal is to make San Cristobel an alternative travel food destination which promotes healthy living and eating habits on the island, by adding plant-based alternatives to the whole diet instead of substituting the heavy meat and processed diet in turn making the island more economically self-sufficient, food secured and a city with its own cultural identity. Response to current situation: • Rise in imports from 8900 tons to 44467 tons in 2037 • Local production is on the decline by 9% • Rise in the consumption of processed food in Galapagos in comparison to Ecuador • Important missing food groups causing food insecurity • Negative impacts of the rise in a tourism-based economy • Rise in abandoned agricultural land in the highlands leading to the rise in invasive species • Rise in meat/livestock demand, leading to an increase in GHG, loss of biodiversity, and soil degradation catalyzed by climate change

BURGER-OLOGY TO HIGH SCALE “MEATING” PLANT Small Scale

Mid Scale

Large Scale

Creates local awareness, employment and demand for plant-based alternatives by providing a range of food

Community hubs to become educational hubs, agro tech startup hubs for youth, supermarkets for conscious eating

Large scale production factory for mushroom based meat to decrease retail supply price on the island and begin export to other countries

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Startup fund of $1500 to unemployed women Low tech hydroponic mushroom farms Homes around along the waterfront Tomato to be sourced from organoponicos Coffee waste as soil Fish from Galapagization module Colorful, tasty burgers begin selling in a week!

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Generate interests in urban agriculture and mushroom farming in more resi populated areas Foodbank with storage facilities Start-up hubs/labs for youth to upskill on a smaller scale More presence amongst residents. Local urban farmers become a cooperative enterprise or a union

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Factory set up by the profits gained by the local urban farmers cooperative enterprise Produce and manufacture plant-based alternatives on a larger scale Imports decrease and exports begin Burgeroligists and mushroom hubs now become distributers rather than manufacturers Integrated with coffee museum and allied industries follow

Small Scale - Strategy flow chart The cycle explains the inputs and outputs of our small scale intervention - Mushroom farms that women at home can start out with a money influx of $1000 infrastructure set up

Small Scale • • • • •

Realistically possible to implement this at a micro scale This intervention can penetrate through each household creating a micro economy All stages of mushroom production can take place at home and be integrated with other systems on the island The waste generated from the mushroom production can be used to create other byproducts Coffee waste from near by cafes and homes can be recycled as the soil for the mushrooms to grow

Stage 2 – Mushroom hubs • • • •

Burgerologists supply to mushroom hub supermarkets Accessible to residents living away from the tourist spots Closer to schools, community areas A place created to grow burgeroligists into a small-scale business

Stage 3 – Meating Factory • • • • •

Cooperative enterprise to set up a high-scale factory Export and retail production increased Livestock grazing supported on the factory land to utilize the waste produced in the production line Coffee waste utilized at a higher scale Mushroom waste generated to tie into livestock feed

Sam’s Strategy storyboarding Goal: To promote Galapagos Coffee by maximizing the production of coffee yields in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way and forming a complete production line to ensure a stable export.

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Response to the current situation: Low productivity of coffee Traditional farming method Limited agricultural land Lack of protection of seedlings/ young plants Chemical/ Fertilizers are not allowed to be used youth plants can be venerable to animals, tortoises & goats Uncontrollable weather Lack of clean water High cost of hiring farming labor

Strategy 1 Frontier of Galapagosization

Strategy 2 Coffee Museum

Strategy 3 Coffee Factory

Exports from PBZ

Connection chart between Coffee and Mushroom lines

Integration

EMPTY ON PURPOSE

Strategy

Feedback Good work, very detailed and very complex. It will be good to simplify it much more for mid-semester crit. You also must add references to work you have borrowed from other students or different sources. Your strategy starts with Ka Chung work. His work, however, was all about trying to develop hydroponic and aquaponic system to help coffee farming in El Progeso. When his coffee plants reach certain size they could be easily transported into the rural areas. (He demonstrated that you can save 90% of water needed to grow coffee plants in the ground.) He also produces a lot of fish as additional product of his aquaponic process. Therefore, from his project you already have at least 2 benefits. But this information is missing from your strategy. Your slide 3 is jumping form Ka Chung work straight into Coffee Museum. I cannot see how it will be possible to build coffee museum in PBM. Who will pay for it? How will go there, and why? Remember that PBM is a tiny place with very small population. Places like Big Pineapple in Queensland have heavy traffic passing next to it every day and many more tourists that PBM could ever dream off. Using coffee grounds and organic waste for growing mushroom is a great idea and makes a lot of sense if combined with burger production. Your strategy needs to be simplified a lot and it needs to become much more realistic. Think what is possible at the moment, and if you still want to do something on much bigger scale you need to tell us how you can get there. Someone will need to pay for it. And remember that everything is possible but you need to show us how it could be done.

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Location mapping of strategies The process of mapping To find the suitable locations to place our interventions, we looked at a few key points 1. Location of the cafes Proximity to these spots will provide quicker and easier access routes for mushroom-ologists to collect coffee and food waste 2. Supermarkets - The current supermarkets are all located along the main tourist spots and on the 2 main spines of the the inner city. The supermarkets are the main access point of buying mainly processed food by the locals. Targetting supermarkets is key for our intervention so that we can identify where potential selling points of the produce and its byproducts can be. 3. Farms - The farms are a potential location to grow the intervention to the next stages thus identifying them is key. 4. Schools - The potential target consumer for the domestic intervention is schools, so the proximity to them within walkable distances is key.

Existing Typologies - Supermarkets

The existing super markets have the following problems 1. Precanned food occupying majority of spaces 2. Limited shelves / lack of storage 3. Lack of fresh produce on display 4. Products sprawling on to the street

Existing urbanscape - Vacant lots and lack of pride

The drone imagery of the island show the urban residential landscape of PBZ. The red hotspots marked indicate the sprawling vacant lots or underused spaces in the city. The imagery also showed the following 1. Lack of effective utilisation of the space 2. Vacant lots creating an indifferent and “un-friendly” neighbourhood 3. Vacant spaces and terraces are used to dump electronic and furniture dmump, also indicating a possible lack of pride towards the nieghbourhood.

Fig 1: PBZ Map showing connection between El Progresso and Main city

Fig 2: PBZ City Map overlayed on satelite view

Fig 3: Abandoned Lots overlay

Fig 4: Residential lots overlay in El Progresso

Fig 5: Abandoned Lots overlay

MAPS - WIP PROGRESS

Fig 1: SuperMarkets in Green

Fig 2: Main Spines

Fig 3: Restaurants and Cafes

Fig 4: Schools

Starting Point of Intervention 1 - Small scale

Windows as potential selling points

Incomplete Typologies to be utilitised as potential selling points

Starting point of the mushroom-ologists

Design sketches from my journal brainstorming some smaller design interventions or strategies after receiving the feedback from class - I am asking myself How do i have fun with the form?

Samantha’s initial sketch to explore the house and the growing stages of a mushroom

Process diagram of the domestic mushroom-ologist

Starting Point of Intervention 2 - Medium scale - Mushroom Hub

Diagram, Samantha

Location of Interventions, Simrat

Case Studies 1. Cultivating a city: How inventive urban production is gaining ground in Vienna

The urban production of mushroom in the city of Vienna is a precedent that has informed our strategy and proposal. This is a great example that is able to represent the impact and the effects of a sustainable micro economy to its local and its scalelability. Started by 2 students, this precendent takes advantage of the numerous cafes it is surrounded by and capitalise the coffee waste generated as the soil for the mushrooms. This is a zero waste project that also uses abandoned typology as the breeding ground for their production. To further seep into the local everyday life, they have a collection cart that delivers fresh mushroom produce around the city and also doubles as a collection cart for waste in the evening.

https://www.friendsoffriends.com/features/coffee-grown-mushrooms-and-other-feats-of-urban-production-in-vienna/#a

Case Studies 3.Circle Urban farm brings mushroom-growing to Lisbon

This case study is a post pandemic project that aims to diversy the lopsided tourist based ecomomy to a much more self reliant and resillient economy through mushrooms. The project looks at creating a cycle that uses the waste generated from restraurants and cafes through out the city and then uses them to grow the mushrooms in abandoned shipping containers and sheds. This is a great example of circular economy and the positive impact it has had on the overall wellbeing of the locals and local businessses.

Data & Evidence

You have done a lot of work already and you probably are putting too much pressure on yourself. Your idea of vegetarian burger is great. You have very good site analysis and you know where things could be located in order for your strategy to work. What you need to do now is simply start dreaming how your mushroom-burger shop could look like, in order to attract a lot of customers and have your ideas to spread around. Ask yourself few questions: 1. Will you have hydroponic, or aquaponic garden. 2. Will you use organic waste and coffee grounds to grow your mushrooms. 3. Will domestic - urban farming and mushroom growing become part of your house design. 4. Will you have places for sitting and eating outside and inside. 5. Will you have proper kitchen or will you barbecue your burgers outside. 6. Will you use tomatoes and salad from your hydroponic garden, etc, etc. Do something small and beautiful. And try to have fun with it. I am sure it will be great. But first you need to relax and stop worrying. Just have quality time designing your burger place.

Diagram showing a section through the standalone “mushroom” fruiting structure

Colabarative group sketches from Miro boardto discuss formmaking

Design Process Here are some google street view to understand the local charector of the city. Although the city is colourful through the coloured wall buildings but the landscape is irononically “grey”

The google street views become a base for the collage that represent the interventions in a more city context.

WIP The Collages represent the ideas in a diagramatic scene showcasing the locals interacting with the interventions.

FEEDBACK • Change the “fragrance” lineweight • people are different lineweights • showcase the man bbq-ing in a better format

WIP - PERSPECTIVE

FEEDBACK • Change the “fragrance” lineweight • people are different lineweights • Show a man BBQing • people in different lineweights • remove the sun in blue • add sky • use standard colours 75

Version 2 WIP : Map showing schools, supermarkets, cafes and restaurants

Version 2 WIP : Map showing abandoned plots and spaces in the city

Sketches diagraming the process of mushroom growing and stages in a domestic setting

Stage 1- Collection and mixing

Stage 2- Inoculation prep

Stage 3- Incubation

Stage 4- Fruiting

Stage 5- Fruiting and harvesting

Stage 6- BBQ, Selling, etc

Mid Sem Review

Change the title to Burgero-ology

Update the collage and the goal

Convert this into a diagram

Diagram is good but change “abandoned land” to “empty lots or spaces”

Rework this!!!!

Good but is it required?

Mushroom Hub View, Samantha

Combined view of the domestic and mushroom hub

Key Feedback points • • • • • •

Small intervention is appreciated and more intimate Develop this into a more architectural form Plonk the mushroom structures along the cable car links to associate more with the tourists Do not ignore the tourist economy Think about the different types of mushrooms and their growing conditions that can be integrated with the form Move towards a larger scale

Re - Strategise

Re-Strategise and refocus Upon receiving feedback from the jury at mid sem, we went back to the drawing board to map out the chain of production in a mushroom factory and the end goal - Burgers. How theses different production lines of coffee, mushroom and burger patty production can take place side by side.

Sketches of the mushroom line

“Think - FACTORY”

The aim of the factory is also to display the process as a way of educating the locals of a plausible circular economy at different scales in a factory unit. For us to achive this, we wanted to exagerate the machinery and the connections to the maximum. 87

Sketches from Miro showing the process of form based on the segregation of activities of each production line across different levels. The overall form was informed by the sprawling form of the mushroom. The mushroom divided into 3 parts - head, body and the roots, are all of equal importance. Thus the form also is divided into 3 main parts Roots - The more accessible and public part of the structure. Body - The production of mushroom and burgers take place here Head - Coffee production and picking All these parts connected by sinews of connections.

WIP - Models from Revit

Initial Sketches of 90 the factory

WIP - Design markups, Samantha

Joinery study of structure

Design Development

Case Study - Growing Pavilion

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/10/29/growing-pavilion-mycelium-dutch-design-week/

The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame. FACADE PANELS - MYCELIUM COMPRESSED PANELS This display of the growth of the mushrooms is a great representation of the power of the mushrooms and the potential it has in the circular economy. The panels are biodegradable, fire resistant, acoustically sound and light. They are easy to make on site and is a great tool for learning as well. 95

WIP - SKETCHES

Design Development

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WIP - Modeling

WIP - Section, segregation of functions

WIP - Modeling

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2 Parts of Production Line

3D Models

Coffee machinery

Conveyer belt 2 Conveyer belt fee machinery belt 2

Conveyer belt Coffee

Conveyor Belt for packaged coffee bags

Coffee Grinder - Roaster achinery Conveyer belt belt ee machinery Conveyer Conveyer belt ery1 Coffee machinery2 2 Conveyer belt 2

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Coffee 3 Coffee drying

drying

Coffee Drying platform

Coffee drying Coffee drying Coffee drying 3 3

Coffee drying

mixer

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4 mixer

belt Bucket multilevel conveyer

belt m belt

mixer mushroom belt

hroom belt

chopper

chopper 10

Fryer

Mushroom Binding Machine

FryerFryer Fryer 10 10

urger battering gie burger battering Veggie burger battering hine machine 9

mixerMushroom Chopper chopper chopper 6 5

Inoculation Mixer

Fryer

6 11

chopper

veggie form veggie 8 8

Mushroom Washer Washer

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Washer

Burger Patty Fryer

De - Oiler

Veggie burger battering Fryer

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ing8 Fryer belt 10 11 ggie burger battering Veggie burger battering chine battering belt machine 11 Recycled Perforated Bucket

belt

belt belt bucket belt12 12 bucket bucket 11 11 12

belt Fryer veggie formimg machine 11 10 9 machine

Multi-level Conveyer beltt for patties

mushroom belt

mixermixer 5 mixer 5 5 mushroom belt chopper mushroom belt chopper chopper 7 Washer Washer Washer 6 mushroom belt 4 6 7 4mixer 6 7

mushroom belt 4

Coffe

bucket

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WIP - Modeling

WIP - Testing form

WIP - Testing Form

Ideas for representation

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Section through the fruiting chamber and harvesting room

Perspective Plan - Ground Floor

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Front Elevation

Axonometric

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Exhibition Prep

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Kit of Parts People

Colour swatch as decided by the class

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Reference images used for sketching people

Hand sketches further corrected by illustrator

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Line Drawings as base for the detailed callout scenes

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COLOURED DETAILED SCENES

Swatches for clothes and people

PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE DOMESTIC INTERVENTION

MUSHROOM - COFFEE PRODUCTION CYCLE DIAGRAM

SCHOOL / BURGER CART FEEDING CHILDREN HEALTHY BURGERS

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COLOURED ELEMENTS TO BE USED IN THE GROUP COLLAGE

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Shell

Mycellium Facade

Structure - coloured Interior equipment

Interior Base

Interior - coloured

Interior Base bw

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Facade shell

Facade shell - coloured

Assets provided by other groups to be used in the final big panel collage

COFFEE CENTRAL

Combined - Final Galapagos Island Coffee

Galapagos Island Coffee Galapagos Island Coffee

Light Roasted Coffee

Galapagos Island Coffee Galapagos Island Coffee

Galapagos Island Coffee

Mid Roasted Coffee Dark Roasted Coffee Mid Roasted Coffee Light Roasted Coffee Dark Roasted Coffee

Galapagos Coffee Cental

Pick and Go

Galapagos Island Coffee

Light Roasted Coffee

Mid Roasted Coffee

Dark Roasted Coffee

MIXING CHAMB

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Exhibition Prep

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WIP - PROGRESS - GROUP

Isabel, Micheala, Samantha and Simrat

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FINAL PANEL

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SCENES DOCUMENTING THE PROCESSES OF MUSHROOM-OLOGY AND COFFEE FARMING Below; FACTORY HUB FINAL

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The diagrams form the basis of our strategy panel. WIP diagrams from earlier weeks were updated to match the colour swatches decided, fonts, images and style.

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MUSHROOM HUB DIAGRAM: Diagram represents the guava wood made structure storing the harvested mushrooms in our domestic strategy. The diagram also showcases the structure being used for seating and eating.

DOMESTIC PRACTICE DIAGRAM: The flow shows the connections and the circularity of our domestic intervention 126

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REVIEWING PANELS, PHOTO BY ISABEL

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REVIEWING PANELS, PHOTO BY ISABEL

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FINAL DESIGN REFLECTION Burger-ology is a product of a circular economy born out of the lopsided economic developement that ultimitely leading to a sexist discriminatory access to fresh food and food security. The interventions are all a bottom-up approach taking into consideration the importance of the initimate scale. The burger-ologists ultimately create a self sustaining business easily scalable to larger production units to then ultimately exporting food globally. Reflecting upon the final design outcome and the big panels we executed for the exhbition as a one big group, I am quite happy and satisfied after weeks of confusion and frustration of the design outcome. Through this exercise of creating panels, I have realised the non linearity of a design process as well and how circular it can be at times. There were times that I was often drawn to the similarities between the Galapagos Islands and India, where I am presently living. The similarities between the urban landscape truely has made me answer my own question that I had at the begning of the studio How are we testing ideas that are possible to be used in other landscapes? How is this a living lab? Informed by data, evidence and structured strategies, the final outcome is a representation of this methodology. This structured methodology is contrasted by the softer and more organic design fluidity that we were encouraged to experiment with. To conclude, I believe that Galapagos is a living herbarium, a living lab that has allowed us in this studio to test out ideas, dreams and realistic visions that can ultimately feed in to the circular nature of the Island.

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