Edible Infrastructures | Organisational Patterns for Urban-Agricultural Landscapes

9 km2 tissue scanned for Retail & Wholesale Nodes (left) New Inputs (right)

ƌɄ Transit line & stops

at 5min walks linking to existing commuter station (dark blue)

ƌɄ Waterfront path with nodes at 2 min walks (light blue)

New Nodes are integrated into the distribution network: 1. Transit Nodes check for Wholesale Nodes within attraction range. If found, the Wholesale Node is integrated into the Transit Node. 2. Waterfront nodes are likewise joined with Retail Nodes.

The Productive City

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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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