Edible Infrastructures | Organisational Patterns for Urban-Agricultural Landscapes
February 24, 2012 edibleinfrastructures 2 other publications
Edible Infrastructures is an investigation into an urbanism which considers food as an integral part of a city's metabolic infrastructure. Working with algorithms as design tools, we explore the generative potential of this system to create an urban ecology that: provides for its residents via local, multi-scalar, distributed food production, reconnects the traditional waste-nutrient cycle, and de-couples food costs from fossil fuels. Our research is conducted through the building of algorithms, beginning with a Settlement Simulation, which couples consumers to productive area, within a cellular automata computational model. Through analysis and interpretation of the output, we explore the hierarchical components for a new Productive City, including: structure & programming of the urban circulatory network, productive urban blocks, & new architectural typologies. The resulting prototypical Productive City questions the underlying mechanisms that shape modern urban space.
Edible Infrastructures is an investigation into an urbanism which considers food as an integral part of a city's metabolic infrastructure. Working with algorithms as design to...
