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S - Site Impact of the project on its location. The world has roughly 7.5 billion inhabitants and a land area of 149 million square kilometers. Dividing the area by people suggest that each person has 19867 square meters of space in his personal niche. This seems like a lot of space for a architect to create a project. However there are a multitude of factors complicating this. First of all of the earths surface area is not suitable for human life, the poles, deserts, the top of mount everest, volcanoes, and a few more places, you can probably imagine some. Then agin why land? Why not live on water, that would certainly ad to the space available. These are things that are relatively easy to calculate and given some time and effort we could sooner than later figure it out if we don´t consider our complex modern lifestyles. Place of origin of our consumer products are often spread all over the globe. And the production sites of these products chip away on the space available per person. Used in a responsible way this system can be of great benefit by placing production where it is most ecologically responsible to do so. Minimizing negative impact on the biosphere thus leaving more of it intact to fulfill other needs. Leaving places of untouched natural beauty serves both a purpose in keeping a rich biodiversity and in allowing us to fulfill our needs of wonder and happiness.
19867 m2/person When it comes to area used per person to fulfill Need Percentage the largest usage is for food production. According to The Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations Statistics Division(FAOSTAT) roughly 38% of the worlds land area is cowered by agricultural land, while according to the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) 3% is cowered by urban settlements. So the largest project potential regarding site usage (measured by size) seams to be in food production or food consumption changes. As energy loss occur in every step in the food chain (20000kcal of grain feed to a cow results in ca2000Kcal of meat). Projects with focus on vegan farming or supporting a vegan lifestyle have larger potential in changing land area use then others. 2000 vegan kcal produced by urban farming can thus potentially save 20000kcal of vegan products feed to cattle. Close to consumer vegan production saves up on transports by proximity and by completely eradicating the need for fodder-to-cattle transport. The potential within urban farming is more then what meets the eye.
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