Edible Infrastructures | Organisational Patterns for Urban-Agricultural Landscapes

Single Unconnected Cells

Linear Chains

EMERGENT TOPOLOGICAL TYPES Study of the topology of the dwellings and greenhouse clusters in our sample tissue reveals a range of possible relationship structures between adjacent units. Five unique types of relationship were identified as representative of the variations within the tissue.

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Linear & Branching Chains

We call these our 'topological types'. They can be summarised as: ƌɄ Single Unconnected Cells ƌɄ Linear Chains ƌɄ Linear Branching Chains ƌɄ Loops ƌɄ Double Chains

Edible Infrastructures | Organisational Patterns for Urban-Agricultural Landscapes

Published on Feb 24, 2012

Edible Infrastructures

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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.

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