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A study of regenative agriculture in an urban context

As the worlds population continues to explode, we are faced with the problem of ecological sustainability of the human civilization. We understand that the way we use the earth to live on and sustain us is incompatible with the Earths natural limited resources. Because of this, we must find ways to continue supporting our existence, while at the same time decreasing the effects on the planet.
Urbanisation is an area of concern in China, where urban sprawl has continued to grow exponentially due to the rural population continuing to move into city centers to live. There are many consequences due this, one I am particularly interested in is the continued relocation of agriculture sites as urban centers grow and also the removal of agriculture from urban environments.
This thesis will examine the existing conditions of the HaiZhu community area in Guangzhou, where the site has become disconnected from its historical relationship with the Pearl river delta. Using the idea of urban/vertical farming, i am investigating re-embedding agriculture production back into an urban environment, while at the same time redeveloping the current situation. Parametric architecture will be looked into as a possible solution to these problems.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tidal Turbine Technology
























Using Tidal Turbine technology to produce power which can generate energy to supply for a building or housing block. ??

Video of the OpenHydro in Action below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8jnwG4XNM8

Have to look into the level for Pearl River flow to allow for this kind of energy production.
I have a vision of beening able to address 3 issues in one concept.

  1. Power generation
  2. Water Pollution
  3. Water Overflooding

Even if i can create a stragety to address these issues on a small scale, it can some how be benefitical to the community in a larger scale.

I have also attached a rapidshare link that contains everything i have on the site in Guangzhou. This is just one of the possible sites that i will look into.

http://rapidshare.com/files/367371158/Guangzhou_Haizhu_site.ZIP.html

Posted by DavidL at 5:28 PM

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