”GROW UP” - How Urban Farming can be incorporated into a residential building?
| dc.contributor.author | Johansson, Alexander | |
| dc.contributor.department | Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik (ACE) | sv |
| dc.contributor.examiner | Nylander, Ola | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Granath, Kaj | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-07T09:58:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-07-07T09:58:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | sv |
| dc.date.submitted | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | There are many factors that indicates that the future cities are facing a major structural change in its urban design. The changing climate, increased urbanization and lacking resources are some elements that demands more of our future urban cities. An increasing global population and a worldwide growing urbanization has raised the question about the future food security in cities all over the world. This growing trend is putting us in a vulnerable situation were we do rely on global imports and rural resources. In order to reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience we need to diversify patterns of food resources and encouraging alternative activities and lifestyles. The thesis investigating the field of resilient architecture, trying to see how a residential building formation can promote urban farming and increase the food security. The project attempt to add a housing topology into an urban context that incorporate the activity of urban farming to strengthen the dwellers cohesion and ecological value. The thesis is carried out as a research by design project. Investigating residential project in Gothenburg city. The research consists of literature studies, interviews, site visits and digital and physical model analysis in order to create a relationship between the analysis and proposal. The thesis present a design proposal carried out as a housing typology with the possibility to harvest the recommended consumption of vegetables per person over a year through different farming methods. | sv |
| dc.identifier.coursecode | ACEX35 | sv |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12380/301355 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.setspec.uppsok | Technology | |
| dc.subject | Urban farming, Housing, Food Security, Urban Resilience, Sustainability | sv |
| dc.title | ”GROW UP” - How Urban Farming can be incorporated into a residential building? | sv |
| dc.type.degree | Examensarbete för masterexamen | sv |
| dc.type.uppsok | H |