Reimagining Urban Playground
Deluo Chen
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Urban Agriculture Faculty
During the COVID-19 pandemic, city farms across London lost many of their public donations and visitors, and are now facing economic dilemmas. The project proposes transforming Vauxhall City Farm into a mixed use urban farm with in-residence researches in the form of the UCL Urban Agriculture Faculty.
This project argues for the scope to reimagine the city farm as beyond its current form: as a living, breathing and thriving community for both humans and animals; a place where co-existence between species is the driving force of the community. In order to achieve such a goal, the research and explorations carried out during the first term design critique of the Barbican, for example, the kitchen-less apartment, the communal kitchens, and the vertical farming, have been critically introduced in the master plan for Vauxhall City Farm.
In the new city farm, both animals and humans would live freely in this ecosystem, where housing for researchers families, research facilities for the UCL Urban Agricultural Faculty and the city farm would create an environmentally forward and fun model for future cities to move towards.
This project argues for the scope to reimagine the city farm as beyond its current form: as a living, breathing and thriving community for both humans and animals; a place where co-existence between species is the driving force of the community. In order to achieve such a goal, the research and explorations carried out during the first term design critique of the Barbican, for example, the kitchen-less apartment, the communal kitchens, and the vertical farming, have been critically introduced in the master plan for Vauxhall City Farm.
In the new city farm, both animals and humans would live freely in this ecosystem, where housing for researchers families, research facilities for the UCL Urban Agricultural Faculty and the city farm would create an environmentally forward and fun model for future cities to move towards.