Project Brief - Draft

Another look at the project brief, in brief!

40 years ago the media and architects alike, for a time, turned their attentions to utopian agricultural visions in response to the looming danger of environmental and economic collapse. Today there is again a focus on environmental and sustainability concerns, a climate ripe for agricultural speculation. Drawing away from past utopian visions we can begin to map real trajectories towards an evolution of food production.

Adaptive production concerns itself with re-connecting people with their food production through an accessible and localised food network incorporating public transport infrastructure. The scheme stems from a current Food Hubs program, utilising an aquaponics growing system, and places itself in Melbourne’s future, denser, urban fabric. An adaptive greenhouse-skin envelopes existing transport corridors nurturing an elevated growing space and adding public amenity and pathways to public transport infrastructure and it’s currently under-used lands. Transport, food and public space collide at Train Station nodes forming market places, ripe with interaction, education and consumption. Through re-introducing direct points of sale and local producers these nodes re-humanise industrial food production, promote food awareness and create a community regulated food production organism for the future.

Project Brief - Draft

Another look at the project brief, in brief!

40 years ago the media and architects alike, for a time, turned their attentions to utopian agricultural visions in response to the looming danger of environmental and economic collapse. Today there is again a focus on environmental and sustainability concerns, a climate ripe for agricultural speculation. Drawing away from past utopian visions we can begin to map real trajectories towards an evolution of food production.

Adaptive production concerns itself with re-connecting people with their food production through an accessible and localised food network incorporating public transport infrastructure. The scheme stems from a current Food Hubs program, utilising an aquaponics growing system, and places itself in Melbourne’s future, denser, urban fabric. An adaptive greenhouse-skin envelopes existing transport corridors nurturing an elevated growing space and adding public amenity and pathways to public transport infrastructure and it’s currently under-used lands. Transport, food and public space collide at Train Station nodes forming market places, ripe with interaction, education and consumption. Through re-introducing direct points of sale and local producers these nodes re-humanise industrial food production, promote food awareness and create a community regulated food production organism for the future.

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This is a blog for my Major Project Thesis.

A place for my ideas, developments, side tracks, research and feedback.

The theme I wish to explore is our relationship with land, particularly our traditional land ownership models and the culture that comes with it. Perhaps in reaction to these traditional relationships, a more nomadic and adaptable architecture could emerge with particular importance to production and consumption. Food production is of course necessary to sustain life, a system particulary complex in urban environments, and until now it has been dependant on secuirty of arable land and extentive transport and logistics systems. Both of these elements are becoming increasingly unsustainable with climate change and our burgoening population. So I am exploring the possibilites of adaptable, nomadic and parsititic farms, ranging from small private urban insertions to larger suburban co-operatives as an alternative to 'permanent' land development. The project may even explore the possibility of creating more nomadic cities, where civilisation can begin to move, as it once did, with climate and land mass changes.

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