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Airborne Vineyard by Soonil Kim
From the Architectural Association, School Of Architecture In London, Taught By Nannette Jackowski And Ricardo De Ostos.
From the blog Pruned, on Landscape Architecture and Related Fields. By Alexander Trevi.
Airborne Vineyard by Soonil Kim
Writes Kim:
Inspired by the urban grains especially the railway network from both St. Pancras and King's Cross Station around the site, the design is a formal continuation of the topography while reinforcing the colonisation of air space by winery branches. The audacious structure, the winery and the vineyard for red wine grapes are connected by a suspended transport network enabling the use of ground space for a public park. With a capacity to produce 10,000 bottles of red wine annually the project re-articulates private and public space blending productive infrastructure with quality areas to Londoners and tourists.
One can certainly imagine such a network built to grow others things, such as vegetables, herbs, fruits, cash crops, commercial flowers and plants, with the winery turned into a farmer's market.
Need more space to grow? Simply extend it. Cities may have a lot of rooftop space for farming, but the negative space above people's heads is exponentially greater.
See more here about this project.
Fish farm in Central London
Fish farm in Central London by Benedetta Gargiulo
Aquaculture is an urban landscape that playfully explores and re-imagines industrial food production, inviting visitors to examine the complex interrelationships between the private consumption and mass production of fresh fish.
Formed as a sinuous pedestrian network extending along the sides of Regent's Canal, its central structural element is water. Aquaculture is characterized by continuous waterfalls and levelled terraces, which co-exist with the topography of Central London. It is a fish-farm that doubles as an innovative architectural body, providing a network of bridges, multi-level pathways and accessible connections across the riverbanks, while contemporaneously purifying and treating the canal's water. The cultivated fishes are treated, filleted, and packaged on-site for instant consumption or for take away.
The visitors participate in the entire industrial process whilst experiencing an 'Aqua Bridge' or entering the 'Aqua Tunnel' by glancing at the mackerel and cod production lines from the sushi bar or simply by crossing and walking along the canal.
See more here about this project.
Farmacy
Farmacy – Samantha Lee's proposal for a farm at King's Cross London which "grows, manufactures and sells medicinal herbs."
Lee writes:
With the notorious past the area has with drugs, and in this process of regeneration, this farm plays a role in its journey of healing. Herbs were selected according to ailments specific to a city like London – for example stress, insomnia, colds and depression.
Urban agriculture as detox centers for urban living.
See more here about this project.
Gastronomic Garden
Taebeom Kim's Gastronomic Garden
There's a lot of things happening here. First, there are the allotment gardens hovering over — perhaps are even propped up by — compost tanks used for recycling garden scraps as well organic waste of local residents.
One particularly large bulbous structure, somewhat reminiscent of sludge digesters at some sewer treatment plants, is designated as a place for contemplation, though it would most likely become a site of illicit activities and even grave criminality in the real world.
Somewhere on the site is a parking garage. This, together with the compost tanks, would generate energy via a process that unfortunately isn't elaborated in the project statement nor in the images we have on hand. We suspect the "oven tower" plays a role. Something to do with (carbon monoxide) convection perhaps?
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