STAGE THREE

of creating smart, empowered, and resilient communities.

The two-semester studio project in 2021-22 engaged with the development and testing of a framework and typologies for an Urban Food Exchange (UFEx). The concept was explored at the urban and the building scale in two different locations along the Glasgow canal network.

The UFEx is a concept for a facility for horticultural and nutritional production, learning and knowledge exchange. It is meant to be a place where hand, mind and spirit are brought into creative collaboration, a place that brings together people from near and far interested in learning from one another the skills and knowledge needed to engage with the art of growing, cooking, and healthy living. UFEx accommodates spaces where raw produce is prepared, processed, shared and distributed with local and wider communities, with the longterm goal of contributing to a sustainable urban food supply and distribution to support the city's nutritional needs.

Energy, Landscape, Culture

HAMID HABIBI

This project aims to develop architectural concepts for an Urban Food Exchange (UFEx). The UFEx is a place where hand, mind, and spirit come together to accomplish the long-term goal of sustainable urban food production and distribution to meet the city’s nutritional needs. It brings people together from near and far who are eager to learn the skills and knowledge involved to achieve the art of producing, cooking, and living on a healthy diet. The function of the project is going to be three separate buildings. The Hub is for food production, a workshop, and a learning kitchen. The Assembly is used as a gathering space, food consumption, indoor market, community functions with some classrooms, and a study area. The House will accommodate a max of 20 people to live and study.

Urban Food Exchange

LUKE COWEN

The Urban Food Exchange investigates locally growing and distributing organic produce along the banks of Glasgow’s Forth and the Clyde Canal.

Celebrating the arrival of the barge, the Hub immerses the users in the process of growth while fostering social exchange through the invitation towards, under, and along the previously inaccessible canal front.