March 2024
The studio asks students to imagine what a sustainable community hub on Sydney’s peri-urban fringe looks like. In contrast to the situation described above, how might we design for local communities that encourage a relationship and positive interaction between agriculture and the communities these lands sit adjacent too.Conventional land use strategy argues for the separation of agriculture and communal space. Challenging this, the studio asks what an adaptable agriculture and multi functional communal space looks like.
Situated between the scale of a regional agriculture building and a local farmers market, the building will provide for communal activities and small scale farming operations. While researching the predominant forms of agriculture, students will eventually choose a form of farming to occur in their building. The building needs to allow for farmers’ markets (place of commerce), to demonstrate the thesis of the studio of bringing agriculture and local community together under the same roof.
Sydney’s urban sprawl has now reached into the lands of the agricultural food bowl of the greater metropolitan region. We are interested in the adjacency of these two seemingly disparate forms of occupying land: Housing and Agriculture. The studio explores the typology of the industrial shed as a form of local vernacular ubiquitous across regional Australia. The‘Shed’ is an umbrella term -students develop their proposals of what a shed is in the context of small scale farming operations, a farmers market and local community hub.
The studio asks students to imagine what a sustainable community hub on Sydney’s peri-urban fringe looks like. In contrast to the situation described above, how might we design for local communities that encourage a relationship and positive interaction between agriculture and the communities these lands sit adjacent too.Conventional land use strategy argues for the separation of agriculture and communal space. Challenging this, the studio asks what an adaptable agriculture and multi functional communal space looks like.
Situated between the scale of a regional agriculture building and a local farmers market, the building will provide for communal activities and small scale farming operations. While researching the predominant forms of agriculture, students will eventually choose a form of farming to occur in their building. The building needs to allow for farmers’ markets (place of commerce), to demonstrate the thesis of the studio of bringing agriculture and local community together under the same roof.
Sydney’s urban sprawl has now reached into the lands of the agricultural food bowl of the greater metropolitan region. We are interested in the adjacency of these two seemingly disparate forms of occupying land: Housing and Agriculture. The studio explores the typology of the industrial shed as a form of local vernacular ubiquitous across regional Australia. The‘Shed’ is an umbrella term -students develop their proposals of what a shed is in the context of small scale farming operations, a farmers market and local community hub.
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