Urban agriculture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about urban agriculture
News • News • 27 Feb 2022
Agrotopia project responds to a growing need and desire for urban agriculture research and production
An increasing need to use space as sustainably, efficiently, and economically as possible has resulted in a growing trend for urban agriculture. Constructed on the roof of a vegetable and fruit auction on a ring road of Roeselare, Belgium, rooftop greenhouse Agrotopia is Europe’s largest research centre for urban food production.
Filip Dujardin
A transparent sculpture of glass and steel, the slender greenhouse construction stands out against the sky. The entire building, completed by van Bergen Kolpa Architects and META Architectuurbureau, is one standard greenhouse with diffused glass.
Filip Dujardin
The 9,500 m2 building contains high-tech research facilities for the cultivation of fruit and leafy vege... More
News • News • 20 Dec 2021
Cité Maraîchère sets the standard for urban agriculture concepts
In light of climate change, future major ecological and food challenges, and the projected population growth by 2050, the merits of urban agriculture are increasingly being explored. In Romainville, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, the Cité Maraîchère by ilimelgo architectes in collaboration with secousses architectes is a new municipal facility for urban agriculture and sustainable food as well as the location of agricultural, social, architectural and technical innovation.
Sandrine Marc
Situated in a neighbourhood currently undergoing regeneration, the exemplary project aims to promote short supply chains, guarantee residents quality food, create goods, develop a social community economy, and raise awareness amon... More
News • News • 1 Sep 2020
LANDPROCESS unveil Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm
By repurposing 236,806 square feet of waste rooftop space, Thammasat University (Thailand) introduces as adaptive climate solution with Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm. Called the Thammasat University Rooftop Farm (TURF), the project integrates the contemporary landscape architecture of LANDPROCESS with the traditional farming ingenuity of traditional rice terraces.
Credit: Panoramic Studio/LANDPROCESS
With an earthwork of rice terraces and modern green roof technology, the cascading rooftop absorbs, filters and slows down runoff 20 times more efficiently than conventional concrete rooftops.
Credit: Panoramic Studio/LANDPROCESS
As rainwater zigzags down the slopes, TURF grow food to fees the campus. At the end of its j... More
Project • By Mert Uslu Mimarlık • Commercial Landscape
SASALI BIOLAB
Shaped by the hands of humans, the deformations experienced in the natural environment are transforming today's living conditions. Therefore it has become a necessity to develop new strategies and techniques related to life sustaining activities (such as nutrition and shelter) that can adapt to these transformations. Undoubtedly, the negative and positive effects of such technological developments on a necessity that appears on a global scale are quite high. At this point, perhaps it would not be wrong to compare these technological developments to a negative and positive-faced medallion. Although it is clear that the rapid technological developments experienced after the 2000s has had a negative effect on the natural environment, it... More
Project • By Conceptual Devices - Antonio Scarponi • Exhibitions
Harvesting Station
A device for the reactivation of the unused part of the city.
Urban agriculture is a practice that always coexisted within the city and its historical development. In recent times, this practice revamped as a form of engagement of urban communities in local food production. However, contemporary urban agriculture has to deal with new phenomena that historically did not compromise the quality and the health of the food produced in the city: the air pollution.
The Harvesting Station is an urban device designed to activate the interstitial spaces of the city and turn them productive. It can grow up to 200 plants in four square meters by keeping them protected from animals and air pollution. The greenhouse is conceived in a wood framewor... More