2026-09-29T04:00:00Zhttps://odr.chalmers.se/server/oai/requestoai:odr.chalmers.se:20.500.12380/3120312026-07-15T00:40:18ZTechnologycom_20.500.12380_2com_20.500.12380_1col_20.500.12380_4
Olsson, Magnus
Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik (ACE)
Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik (ACE)
Femenias, Paula
Unterrainer, Walter
2026-07-14T18:33:18Z
2026
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12380/312031
ACEX35
Most of the global population live in urban areas
with limited control over production and the quality
of their food. The scarcity of biologically productive
space together with the degrading agricultural soils
caused by conventional farming and the process of
climate change have led to severe negative
consequences for the environment and for food
security.
There have been recent advancements in methods
of decentralized and compact resource production.
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)
techniques such as hydroponic vegetable cultivation
and Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) have
spatial qualities to be implemented in dense contexts
like in cities.
This thesis explores how compact methods of onsite
resource production can be architecturally merged
in the design of a new multi-family urban residential
building.
The project is complemented with the development
of a bespoke inhabitation concept for the design.
The design is influenced by references of in situ
resource generation projects, the field of autonomous
architecture and analysis of the specific site chosen
for project
The design process included concept development to
formulate the project program and the synthesizing
of the material into an architectural development
procedure utilizing physical and CAD-models.
The result is a building design proposal on a site in
Stockholm, in the northern parts of Hagaparken on a
plot currently used as parking site.
A collective inhabitation concept for 200 residents
who not only live but also work part time in the
building together.
The building is open to the public by its restaurant
that serves both the inhabitants and visitors food
from what is grown and produced in the project.
The thesis draws conclusions from the design
regarding architectural consequences, inhabitation
aspects and diet.
The experimental architectural outcome of this
project indicates that it is plausible to facilitate
self-sufficient food production in an urban
residential building and fulfill most of its inhabitants’
daily demand of food nutrition like proteins. This is
achieved by the design of a collective inhabitation
concept, architectural synthesis of spatial functions
and technology together with the composition of a
healthy and tasty diet cooked from what is grown in
the house.
eng
Technology
Urban Earthship 2026; Resource Generative Architectural Design
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
H
Architecture and planning beyond sustainability (MPDSD), MSc
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