Synopsis-URBAN FOOD HUB AND VERTICAL FARMING [PDF]

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URBAN FARMING AND FOOD HUB (MIXED USE BUILDING). What is an urban farming? Urban farming is growing or producing food in a city or heavily populated town or municipality



What is a food hub? A regional food hub is a business or organization that actively manages the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of source-identified food products primarily from local and regional producers to strengthen their ability to satisfy wholesale, retail, and institutional demand.



Keywords: - Hub, food chains, food ties, food sectors, food culture, intervention, product-manufacturer-consumer, farming (vertical farming), local food , adaptive cycle, food system,



SynopsisWhen people experience a city it is the food and architecture of that place that most often have the largest cultural impact. The structure of modern cities suppresses our social interaction and experience with our built environment and our food respectively.



AimTo take the social issue through an intervention. And a thought to be given when we will start planting our food in our own house or in our nearby locality. And architectural solutions to it. To help small farms grow by offering a combination of production, distribution, and marketing services. To concern on connecting the dots between producers and consumers of food in local and regional food systems. To give farmers a new platform to directly sell their productions with eliminating retailer’s ties.



ObjectiveA food hub – Is proposed in order to provide platform of opportunities for social and cultural engagement.



Interventionthe act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others



Architectural interventionIt is a physical intervention that, as a result of a project, proposes an architectural space generated on the basis of human intervention.



Methodology – 1. Taking a cue from already existing “food ties” 2. Basic study upon all the food industry and their correlation with each other. 3. Architectural concerns about the function of this industry, understanding and establishing needs of user, and the involved bodies. 4. Problem finding 5. Analysis of different stages 6. Existing projects studies 7. Understanding design guidelines 8. Schematic design, conceptual design, final design addressing site and contexts study.



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Prime location, urban level connect, strong special character, New typology.



LimitationsDivisions of market, gathering all the food-ties (i.e. from manufacturer to consumer) together, looking architecturally at the retails food systems and giving architectural solutions to it.



Location / site –



Hinjewadi, Pune.



Case studies–  Art village, Karjat.  Mapro garden, mahabaleshwar.  Sula vineyard, nashik.  Mahatma phule, mandai, pune  Pavilion food court, and retail shops  Yongnian Food Market,  Community farming facility in Kentucky  Undulating rooftop farm terraces will top food market designed by MVRDV for Taiwan,  Gastro passage food hub.  Fresh Food Theatre  Local food hub, Santa Barbara County, California.