FOOD-FARM-TOWER in Romainville / PARIS / France
Architects : ABF-lab, architects-Engineers
Team : S2T , Atelier Altern Paysage, Topager
Location: Romainville / Paris / France
Client: OPH ROMAINVILLE
Area: 2000 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Cost : 3.4 M€
Photographs: Courtesy of ABF-lab Architects and Engineers
If you want that your garden gives you the best of himself and do grow quality food, it ‘s obvious and fundamental to turn the entire food farm project towards the sun. So we didn’t want to use any artificial lighting to supply power to plant vegetable gardens and a maximum of diversity.
For us, Innovation is not necessarily sounds with experimentation, so we decided to work on a project around the processability and the partial or total flexibility.
Our Food-Fram Tower project is based on two recurring concepts :
1 / Optimize the volume for the hosting market gardening trays following the path of the sun and therefore be as productive as possible.
2 / The project can be reversible in a housing building or mixt. We propose two projects in one.
The image of "the idyllic farm," the "hand of man in the act of building", the "terroir", the "natural landscape" and the "social dimension", seemed most accord with the current theme of urban agriculture. This project is something of a wooden carpenter assembly "anchored" in a natural landscape from which come the virgin vines climb. The architectural image shows a "implanted" in building a "piece of land" that "belong" to the inhabitants of Romainville city and its future visitors. The approach to this new building is designed so that visitors can easily grasp it and adopt it thanks to the creation of a public-garden space.
We are convinced that such a project contributes to improving the living environment, conveyed by the production of ultra-local food, healthy and quality, reducing costs, CO2 emissions and energy requirements fossil. We also believe that this type of project will pave the way for a new way of conceiving the built environment, for it is at the urban scale that it becomes possible to consider virtuous synergies between the project and the people in placing people at the heart of the process.
Emerging as a first in France, a pilot and a conceptual reservoir will propose an infinity of scenarios to be developed with local associations and participate in radiation Romainville city. It will be one of the first neighborhoods to fully integrate the principles of urban agriculture as a catalyst for better living together.
The experience of a farm building in the city was a way to raise awareness and change behavior towards more environmental and social responsibility.
