Final - Overview Text

Adaptive production.

40 years ago the media and architects alike turned their attentions to utopian agricultural visions in response to looming threats of environmental and economic collapse. Today, this focus has returned. Drawing on the utopias of 40 years ago, this project locates itself 40 years into the future, attempting to utilize utopian optimism to map a viable (non-utopian) evolution of food production.

Adaptive production proposes 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 denser, future urban fabric. An adaptive greenhouse-skin envelopes existing transport corridors, revitalising currently under-used land. This skin nurtures an elevated growing space that feeds into the public amenities of public transport infrastructure. Transport, food and public space collide at Train Station nodes forming market places, ripe with interaction, education and consumption. These nodes enable direct public contact with industrial food production, promoting awareness and creating a community regulated food production organism for the future.

Final - Overview Text

Adaptive production.

40 years ago the media and architects alike turned their attentions to utopian agricultural visions in response to looming threats of environmental and economic collapse. Today, this focus has returned. Drawing on the utopias of 40 years ago, this project locates itself 40 years into the future, attempting to utilize utopian optimism to map a viable (non-utopian) evolution of food production.

Adaptive production proposes 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 denser, future urban fabric. An adaptive greenhouse-skin envelopes existing transport corridors, revitalising currently under-used land. This skin nurtures an elevated growing space that feeds into the public amenities of public transport infrastructure. Transport, food and public space collide at Train Station nodes forming market places, ripe with interaction, education and consumption. These nodes enable direct public contact with industrial food production, promoting awareness and creating 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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