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The days of home isolation during the epidemic have made people more and more eager for outdoor activities, and even yearn to return to pastoral life and enjoy tranquility and freedom. And these urban agricultural landscape cases make people turn pastoral dreams into reality. Agricultural landscapes can become eye-catching landscapes that blend into urban spaces and allow people to experience novel lifestyles.
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Thailand National Legislative Affairs University rooftop organic farm
Somachi University of Thailand has repurposed its 236,806-square-foot roof site to transform the previously wasted space into Asia's largest organic rooftop farm. Combining landscape architecture with traditional terraces, the farm combines sustainable food production, energy regeneration, organic waste and water management, and public space to propose adaptive solutions to environmental problems.
The design of the roof farm combines the earthwork structure of the terraces with modern green roof technology, which increases the efficiency of rainwater harvesting, filtration and slowing runoff by 20 times compared to traditional concrete roofs. Rainwater snaked down the slopes, nourishing the crops on the roof and providing food for the school's teachers and students. Cisterns are set up on each side of the roof to collect and store excess rainwater for future dry seasons.
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Suan Phueng Farm, Thailand
The design is derived from the charm of agriculture. The project owner, who owns a vast farmland in the Thai landscape town of Suan Phueng, intends to combine the produce here with an agricultural lifestyle for the city's residents who have been in the cage for a long time. Therefore, the first phase of the "Coro" project, located in the front of the same plot as the farm, is mainly used for agricultural product display and agricultural life experience.
The specific dimensions of 1.5 meters are carefully designed for the farm, i.e. the appropriate tillage distance, and thus the defined grid system connects each floor of the building from open space to enclosed space. Its structure, skin, services, spatial planning and materials support each other and together define different spaces.
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POST Houston Rooftop Farm in downtown Houston, USA
Post Houston's top floor is a roof garden of more than 20,000 square meters, creating a new urban ecosystem with one of the world's largest rooftop gardens and organic farms. The old building is an industrial space with little natural light. The builder cut the roof slabs to let light shine through the middle of the building, making the hall the "city square" of the area. And a polymer film designed by NASA was used to insulate the building and protect its interior from external influences.
The rooftop farm will be operated by a for-profit supplier of sustainable and organic farm solutions in Houston. The farm is expected to produce more than 50,000 pounds of organic produce per year. The farm will provide agricultural education, working with canteen chefs throughout the year to bring guests a true farm-to-table experience. The rooftop space will also offer a unique event venue in downtown Houston that will host weddings, farm dinners, sunset yoga classes, and more.
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Chicago, USA, Garrickonmore Youth Center Roof Garden
The Roof Garden at the Gerry Cammore Teen Center provides a space for teenagers to learn after school, and last year alone, the Roof Garden produced 1,000 pounds of organic food for students, local restaurants and the center's café. The picturesque shape of the garden transforms the typical toiling vegetable garden into a beautiful place to rest.
With an area of approximately 758 square metres, the roof garden offers urban agriculture in ultra-traditional spaces and provides an excellent balance between ornamental and practical needs. Soils 46 to 61 cm deep offer possibilities for food production, including cabbage, sunflowers, carrots, lettuce and strawberries. Not only does the garden reduce the cost of climate control, but it also provides outdoor classes where enthusiastic children can feel the joy of harvesting potatoes and carrots with gardening tools.
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Thai Siam Rooftop Farm Garden
Siam Green Sky is Thailand's first and largest green roof. This urban agriculture and agricultural learning center recycles wasted concrete roof space for the production of the landscape and introduces urban agriculture into bangkok's commercial hub.
Drawing on the wisdom of Thai agriculture, the green roof evokes traditional terraces using the pattern of cascading terraces. The landscape is divided into herbaceous gardens, vegetable gardens, and rice paddies, radiating outward from the entrance to the site.
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Hawkeye Roof Farm, Brooklyn, New York, USA
The top floor of a six-story, abandoned, six-story house in Brooklyn, New York, hides the world's largest rooftop farm, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm. A roof renovation was carried out in 2009.
The 40,000-square-foot roof is covered with 200,000 pounds (about 91,000 kilograms) of crop growing media, including fertilizer, rock and mud shale. In addition to the facilities for storing rainwater, the farm also has its own hive and chicken coop, which makes efficient use of planting space. Organic vegetables grown on the farm are mainly used to supply residents and restaurants in the surrounding communities and are widely welcomed. In addition to selling produce, Eagle Street Rooftop Farms organizes weekend farm experiences, participates in child chef development programs, and runs small CSA programs.
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Hong Kong k-farms
Located in the Central and Western Districts of Hong Kong, K-FARM Is the first urban farm in Hong Kong that combines hydroponics, aquaponics and organic farming, where citizens and students can learn about various farming system knowledge and technology through guided tours, courses and farming experience activities in various facilities of the farm, and can also enjoy a pleasant time with relatives and friends in an open, leisure and beautiful environment.
Located along the shores of Victoria Harbour, K-FARM combines three major agricultural types of farming, "Hydroponics", "Aquaponics" and "Organic Farming", and presents them in a systematic manner, allowing people not only to observe the crops up close, but also to participate in guided tours, courses or farming experiences to learn more about them.
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K11 Nature Discovery Park, Hong Kong
Located on the roof of the eighth floor of Hong Kong's K11 MUSEA, Nature Discovery Park is Hong Kong's first urban biodiversity and nature museum and sustainability-themed education park, transforming the space that could have been reserved in the shopping mall into a natural learning and experience hub.
At the center of the park is a wen laboratory and an urban farm. The glass structure is constructed of steel structure and aluminum cladding, and the glass house features large sliding glass doors that open its interior to an outdoor farm. To save energy, IGU glass curtain walls are used to reduce heat acquisition. Sliding doors are always open to absorb sunlight and enhance natural ventilation to minimize energy consumption.
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Stedsans Organic Restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark
Stedsans Restaurant in this oasis was co-founded by a pair of CP food writers Mette Helbæk and chef Flemming Schiøtt Hansen. The restaurant was formerly a community farm, this rooftop farm is called ØsterGro, named after Østerbro, a block from Copenhagen, and "gro" means to grow in Danish.
The original intention of this rooftop farm is to allow nearby communities and people working in the city to have daily access to freshly produced vegetables, eggs and chickens produced on the farm. The original rooftop farm has become the best selling point of this restaurant, and modern people's desire to return to nature has become the only way for them to get close to the countryside.
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Vietnam Spiral Farm Kindergarten
Although the kindergarten is only two stories high, the design of the whole building is unique. From the outside, if viewed from above, the kindergarten is like a three-ring knot on a large green field, and the grass and trees grow in these undulating rings.
The roof of the kindergarten is covered with lawns, planted with plants and vegetables; three courtyards are arranged in a row, each of which is also paved with lawns and planted with trees. The kindergarten covers a wide area of 10,600 square meters, so the children have a lot of room for activities, very close to nature, can run and play freely on the grass, and can participate in activities such as growing vegetables, experience and learn agriculture.
Finally, new agriculture must have new thinking! Urban agriculture has the dual genes of city and agriculture, with the help of new supply chains, new businesses, etc., it will surely burst out of new agricultural value, and the future can be expected!
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