a+u 2024:04 Feature: Architecture Surrounding Food
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a+u’s April issue, guided by guest editors Ko Nakamura, Keigo Kobayashi, and Mamiko Miyahara, investigates the interconnection of architecture and food. Food insecurity is a major challenge that cities face in the Anthropocene that architects and urbanists must rise to meet. Presenting more than 20 projects of varying scales, this issue highlights alternative strategies that architecture and urban design may adopt in the urgent effort to address this shared global burden. Five key themes – New Ways of Production, Globalism and National Strategies, In Community, Meeting the City, and Exploring Food Space – organize the projects. Real-time examples, such as Vertical Urban Farm, reveal possible directions that could be followed, while other projects interrogate existing notions, like Floating Farm Dairy, which aims to reintegrate isolated industrial harbor spaces with the rest of the city by introducing space for animal husbandry. Food is an integral part of not only basic survival but also of fostering community and the conviviality of the built realm. Thus, architecture acts as the crucible where agricultural innovation, forms, community action, and environmental sustainability meet. (a+u)
Introduction:
Architecture Surrounds Food
Ko Nakamura
New Ways of Production
Floating Farm Dairy, Goldsmith
Casa Wabi Coop, Kengo Kuma and Associates
Black Slavonian Eco Pig Farm, SKROZ
Essay:
Foodscape for Security
Keigo Kobayashi
Japan College of Fish, Tezuka Architects
Essay:
From Fish to Commodity:
London’s Billingsgate Market as Connector between Terrestrial and Marine Landscapes
André Tavares
Globalism and National Strategies
West Louisville Food Port, OMA
Vertical Farm Entrance Building, van Bergen Kolpa Architects
Vertical Urban Farm, ilimelgo
Thammasat Urban Rooftop Farm, Landprocess
Agripolis – Paris Exhibition Center Hall 6, Valode and Pistre
Picnic, Laila Gohar
Essay:
The Near-Future Outlook for Food Production Facilities in Urban Areas
Satoru Nimura, Osamu Goto
In Community
Big Roof, 1+1+ Architects
Chipperfield Canteen, David Chipperfield Architects
McDonald’s Chicago Flagship, Ross Barney Architects
Cozinha Comunitária das Terras da Costa, Colectivo Warehouse + Ateliermob
Essay:
Communality and Eating Spaces in Modern History
Fumiyo Suzaki
Meeting the City
Design District Canteen, selgascano
Temporary Site of Shengli Market, LUO studio
Megane Coffee and Spirits, rhythmdesign
Track/Truck, Ko Nakamura, Keigo Kobayashi, Mamiko Miyahara
B-Flat Commune, Mosaic Design
Essay:
Food, Place, and Edible Nature-Based Solutions:
Learning from Recent Projects
Susan Parham
Exploring Food Space
Chongqing Underground City’s Hotpot Restaurant, Bo Jiang
Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant,
Martí Guixé, Antto Melasniemi
Essay:
Outside the Plate: Gastronomy as Multisensory Experience
Kosuke Nagata