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The Ruby Necklace: A Recipe for Bog-to-Table Agritourism
This proposal leverages tourism and recreation to aid the at-risk industry of Cranberry growers to sustain their farms and cultivate the cultural heritage of this native crop. Threatening their land and livelihoods, cranberry farmers are at a pivotal fork in the road, to retreat or to renovate? This framework supports
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Reclaiming the Lost Potential of Bhiwadi
The city of Bhiwadi, located on the border of Rajasthan and Haryana, plagues with inefficient agriculture with the advent of rapid industrialisation. The training centre aims to revive the city's capacity to grow organic food by involving both people and farmers in the process. This project targets the declining food
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Urban Cocoon
Is it possible to imagine a new typology of community, using cutting edge technology with sustainable materials that can enable people to live in close proximity with nature, but have minimum impact and also feel safe? The proposed design, in response to the dense vegetation on site, includes every structure being
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Urban Arcology
This project is based on the concept of Arcology, developed by the Italian architect Paolo Soleri, who was aware that cities were not adequate for humans since they were perceived as chaotic and detrimental to our well-being. As a consequence of his awareness, Soleri came up with Arcology (architecture +
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Plan 'Bee'
Plan "Bee" - changing "plan A" for a better, revitalized urban Manchester with greenery to reduce NO2 pollution along the A57(M) and Oxford Road, stemming from my scheme response 'The Harvest' as a call and very visible force for greater action from Manchester City Council. The scheme can justifiably use
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RiverBANK : Bank of food, land and biodiversity
The project RiverBANK is an integrated system of productive agro-based network that lend spaces to community for growing food (at the river-side site and in the city). The main design is at the river edge where the sloppy terrain is re-structured into terraced spaces for the community to grow food.
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Food Cover
Erratic rainfall patterns in Gujarat, led to lower vegetable acreage in 2019. Due to water scarcity in the state, incomplete canal infrastructure and at times lack of access to other sources, farmers in the region are able to cultivate vegetables only in areas where groundwater is available. Gujarat is also
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Urban | Residential | Masterplan | Cultural
Sva - A vision of Self sustenanceAccording to UN World Urbanization prospects, in the past 40 years, the global population has grown by 80%. In nearly 50 years the urban population will reach about 70% of the global (world population prospects, 2006). This influx from rural to urban areas and massive urbanization creates numerous environmental and
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Urban | Civic | Masterplan | Infrastructure
Border Dynamics: Park as ParliamentSited on the border between Norway and Russia, this project reconsiders the autonomy of the town of Kirkenes. The region has a complex history of territorial dispute and mineral extraction, attracting investors from the globe to invest, extract and occupy. As a result, this area has become a semi-peripheral place
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Fluid Strata
The project is inspired by the urgent need for resilient landscape systems which can be introduced into the urban environment to mitigate unpredicted tidal and storm surges. The city of London is directly linked to the North Sea, which is known for high intertidal currents carrying large bodies of water
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NEURALISMS SHENZHEN: Research Report
Twenty-first-century cities like Shenzhen have grown into diverse, complex, and interconnected organisms. This interwoven structure brings an expanding range of constraints and demands for new types of civic engagement, new ways of integrating nature with the city, and for more sustainable use of resources. Instead of blunt “terrain vague” redevelopment
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Landscape | Commercial | Civic | Masterplan
Lunch on the Charles: A staging ground for social and commercial activationMLA First Semester Core Studio Project 3: Urban River: Landscape as a framework for public recreation and health. After analyzing the site and the greater context of the future land-use of the Lower Allston and Watertown neighborhoods, it was clear how this area is rapidly growing residentially with commercial and
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Archipelago: A sustainable future build concept
2050 is far enough off to imagine, the urban environment will be very different then today but from research and study, we know a few things are likely, the Rise in sea level due to melting ice sheets caused due to gasses, active volcanoes and other reasons will leave us
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Urban | Residential | Civic | Masterplan
The Kapotnya effect. ResettlementNATURAL AUTONOMY. The residential area of Kapotnya is isolated from the city (Moscow) by the river, the oil factory, and MKAD (Moscow Ring Road). Kapotnya’s territory is “invisible” to public transport, the political and economical influence of the city center. Thus, Kapotnya naturally becomes a kind of autonomous city inside the
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Tide - Membrane - Place
Odaiba third island is an artificial island made in Edo period in Tokyo, Japan; however it has been abandoned ever since it was titled as “traditional heritage”, which must be preserved and untouched, though it contradictorily ended up decaying. This project tries to deal with this beautiful but decaying island, first
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