resilient årstafältet food as a (social) flagship
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green biodiverse buffer areas
These areas contain different types of trees, which increase biodiversity and regulate microclimate. The trees can be considered a source of food as well, as they can provide fruits, nuts, edible flowers. The use of different trees is important to improve the pollination.
smart buildinds
This is where the housing and the social floor are located. In order to improve the food production during winter, there are greenhouses in the upper floors.
community garden
This happens between the buildings, where the residents can grow crops together with their neighbours, increasing the sense of community.
public garden
future picture
The conceptual picture of Årstafältet’s future can be see in two different ways. In one interpretation, if people’s behaviour stay the same, it will be necessary to create very extreme environments to produce food. On the other hand, the image could be see as Årstafältet as a food production core, where through food production the social life and sustainability come up, spreading this lifestyle at the neighbouring areas.
This projects aims to create a neighbourhood where food is the flagship issue. The social activities that take place in the field should be connected through the food, by food production, consumption and disposal, creating a circular system. This projects aims to create a neighbourhood where food is the flagship issue. The social activities that take place in the field should be connected through the food, by food production, consumption and disposal, creating a circular system. The existing industrial area has a food distribution centre, and this could support the future local food production, as a consumer and distributer of the goods produced in Årstafältet. The activities related with food were indendified since the first Task. The main food production axis was designed at the area where family activities, gardening and picnics are social activities, so the project intend to enhance the social relations related with food not only at this specific area, but in the whole field.
The zoning of the field and the position of the buildings is a result of the previous tasks (developed in part 1, in the group work). In the image below (Task 4 - The ants), it is possible to identify the activities related with food, the intensity of social activies and the combination of both, that generated the map with the location of the future housing and the food production axis.
To ensure that the food consumption will occur in a circular system, it is important to provide the opportunity to the local residents to develop all the activities related with food. For this reason, the project suggests the introduction of specific areas to food production, consumption and composting.
Production
The public garden are the pedestrian paths that brings the neighbouring residents and other neighbourhoods’ residents to the field.
food production axis
The green axis, is the biggest food production area, which will develop flora and fauna, bringing different species and enhancing the social activities as gardening, picnics, gathering.
Consumption
Composting
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food layers social area
The social network can be seen as a consequence of the activities generated by the food production, which will improve the social encounters - not only casual meetings - with gathering areas and knowledge exchange.
The food production, consumption and composting occurs in different levels: 1. Private: at the residents houses 2. Community: at the greenhouse floor and food corridors 3. Public: at the food axis This is important to ensure that many different kind of people and users will have the opportunity to grow food, and increase the possibility of this circular system to work, because different levels can support each other.