Non-urban functions in urban areas as a catalyst for urban life
Justyna Kleszcz
j.kleszcz@aiu.uz.zgora.plDepartment of Architecture and Urban Planning; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering; University of Zielona Góra; (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-6367
Abstract
The paper is intended to approximate the role of multifunctional structures combining typical urban and non-urban functions into one spatial form, which make them nodal points on the local and supra-local scale. These points will be architectural forms of various scales – both those which build space through cubature and create only spatial frames – “anti-cubature”. Introduction to cities functions commonly associated with rural areas, such as agriculture in a variety of forms, animal husbandry, industrial agricultural production, is an inspiration to creating unobvious connections with housing, transportation, offi ce, education, and not only with the area of recreational green in the city. More and more often, buildings of this type become iconic elements of the city structure, both in its physical and virtual space of the “unbuilt” city. Examples of utopian visions created for major metropolises such as New York, Paris, and Vancouver show the importance of small correction of the given space functional program, allowing it to be transformed from lateral into node structure. The Pasona Urban Farm in Tokyo, visions of Vincent Callebaut, WORK Architecture Company or Terreform group, but also the more intimate Amersfoort and Villa Augustus projects in Dordrecht, Hoeve Biesland, show the power dormant in non-urban center – creating functions.
Keywords:
city, urban farming, agropolis, agrihood, urban agricultureReferences
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Justyna Kleszczj.kleszcz@aiu.uz.zgora.pl
Department of Architecture and Urban Planning; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering; University of Zielona Góra; Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-6367
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