The current environmental issues the earth is facing such as global warming, population growth, and scarcity of resources are caused among many practices by the construction and agriculture industries. This increasing degradation of the environment should begin to push designers and builders towards more sustainable solutions. Metropolitan areas of the world, such as Mexico City, have an increasing demand of fresh foods. Due to transportation from other locations, these goods are expensive and generate a high carbon footprint. For this reason, the inhabitants of the metropolis are once again considering agriculture, but the ideal vision of it is difficult to project in the face of the modern organization and practices of the contemporary city. Urban farms are a concept that is becoming more and more popular and is part of the solutions of the future to ensure food for the inhabitants of metropolitan areas. Agriculture, in close relation to architecture can be reshaped to fit the current needs of a population that keeps growing inside of the cities, getting further and further away from the countryside and the fields of food production. A possible solution for many of the social and environmental issues we are currently facing would be getting closer to the source that provides our daily lives needs, being one of the most important: eating. Ideally the consumer should be as close as possible to the growing products. Agricultural activity promotes a sense of community and collective responsibility. Whether it is cultivating the land, harvesting resources, extracting energy, or distributing labor, agriculture reveals the interdependencies of this globalized world, and simultaneously represents a local gesture in the productive landscape and an alternative economy. This thesis proposes a system of architectural alterations that can be adapted to various typologies of buildings to generate productive green spaces that can feed their population and provide ecosystem services, thus reducing the negative impacts of current food dynamics in a city. And at the same time, a series of spaces that promote a community activity that allows the formation of work and education relationships to improve the quality of life and health of a group of inhabitants in a locality, considering the social, environmental and economic dimensions affected.
Gli attuali problemi ambientali che la terra sta affrontando, come il riscaldamento globale, la crescita della popolazione e la scarsità di risorse, sono causati tra le tante pratiche dall'industria delle costruzioni e dell'agricoltura. Questo crescente degrado dell'ambiente dovrebbe iniziare a spingere progettisti e costruttori verso soluzioni più sostenibili. Le aree metropolitane del mondo, come Città del Messico, hanno una crescente domanda di cibi freschi. A causa del trasporto da altre località, queste merci sono costose e generano un'alta impronta di carbonio. Per questo motivo, gli abitanti della metropoli stanno di nuovo considerando l'agricoltura, ma la visione ideale di essa è difficile da proiettare di fronte alla moderna organizzazione e alle pratiche della città contemporanea. Le fattorie urbane sono un concetto che sta diventando sempre più popolare e fa parte delle soluzioni del futuro per assicurare il cibo agli abitanti delle aree metropolitane. L'agricoltura, in stretta relazione con l'architettura, può essere rimodellata per adattarsi alle esigenze attuali di una popolazione che continua a crescere all'interno delle città, allontanandosi sempre di più dalla campagna e dai campi di produzione alimentare. Una possibile soluzione per molti dei problemi sociali e ambientali che stiamo affrontando attualmente sarebbe avvicinarsi alla fonte che fornisce i bisogni della nostra vita quotidiana, essendo uno dei più importanti: mangiare. Idealmente il consumatore dovrebbe essere il più vicino possibile ai prodotti in crescita. L'attività agricola promuove un senso di comunità e di responsabilità collettiva. Che si tratti di coltivare la terra, raccogliere le risorse, estrarre l'energia o distribuire il lavoro, l'agricoltura rivela le interdipendenze di questo mondo globalizzato, e contemporaneamente rappresenta un gesto locale nel paesaggio produttivo e un'economia alternativa. Questa tesi propone un sistema di alterazioni architettoniche che possono essere adattate a varie tipologie di edifici per generare spazi verdi produttivi che possano nutrire la loro popolazione e fornire servizi ecosistemici, riducendo così gli impatti negativi delle attuali dinamiche alimentari in una città. E allo stesso tempo, una serie di spazi che promuovono un'attività comunitaria che permette la formazione di relazioni di lavoro ed educazione per migliorare la qualità della vita e la salute di un gruppo di abitanti in una località, considerando le dimensioni sociali, ambientali ed economiche interessate.
Agro-Parasite: a regeneration model for social housing settlements through functional integration
OZORNO ARRIAGA, ANA LAURA
2020/2021
Abstract
The current environmental issues the earth is facing such as global warming, population growth, and scarcity of resources are caused among many practices by the construction and agriculture industries. This increasing degradation of the environment should begin to push designers and builders towards more sustainable solutions. Metropolitan areas of the world, such as Mexico City, have an increasing demand of fresh foods. Due to transportation from other locations, these goods are expensive and generate a high carbon footprint. For this reason, the inhabitants of the metropolis are once again considering agriculture, but the ideal vision of it is difficult to project in the face of the modern organization and practices of the contemporary city. Urban farms are a concept that is becoming more and more popular and is part of the solutions of the future to ensure food for the inhabitants of metropolitan areas. Agriculture, in close relation to architecture can be reshaped to fit the current needs of a population that keeps growing inside of the cities, getting further and further away from the countryside and the fields of food production. A possible solution for many of the social and environmental issues we are currently facing would be getting closer to the source that provides our daily lives needs, being one of the most important: eating. Ideally the consumer should be as close as possible to the growing products. Agricultural activity promotes a sense of community and collective responsibility. Whether it is cultivating the land, harvesting resources, extracting energy, or distributing labor, agriculture reveals the interdependencies of this globalized world, and simultaneously represents a local gesture in the productive landscape and an alternative economy. This thesis proposes a system of architectural alterations that can be adapted to various typologies of buildings to generate productive green spaces that can feed their population and provide ecosystem services, thus reducing the negative impacts of current food dynamics in a city. And at the same time, a series of spaces that promote a community activity that allows the formation of work and education relationships to improve the quality of life and health of a group of inhabitants in a locality, considering the social, environmental and economic dimensions affected.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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