Thesis – done!
So our thesis submission was yesterday, and to be honest I really enjoyed writing and researching about my topic. Not that it’s a great piece of literature, but I really believe that there is future in vertical and urban farming so spending time to research on it’s ‘viability’ in relation to my design work was really interesting.
I’ve been interested in this subject for most of this academic year, and I managed to find really great information about it and go into much more detail than I had before.
I didn’t manage to send it to bind in advance, so I couldn’t get it soft bound like I wanted to, but I think it’s ok. I will get it done properly for the external examination in june and have up to date images of my project as well, which is good.
Here are some shots of it while I was on the tube on my way to submit it in uni.
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And here’s the abstract, in case you’re interested in what it was actually about:
Abstract
The thesis forms an account of the conceptual and practical qualities of an architectural intervention sited at the Huangsha Seafood Market in Guangzhou, China.
The project analyses a variety of quantitative research – scientific data, architectural proposals, social findings, environmental statistics, biological studies and agricultural research – to encourage the formation of a renewed socio-ecological relationship with nature in cities. It aims to achieve this by proposing an intervention, which purifies the neighbouring Pearl River water, on site, for the purpose of growing vegetables, fruit and seafood through Aquaponics.
Through the research conducted the necessity of agricultural urban interventions becomes clear, as this industry is currently one of the most harmful in terms of water and air pollution and ecosystem depletion. For the future of food and environmental security the thesis concludes that urban ecological life cycles are necessary, desirable and feasible. These metropolitan interventions should be able to provide for local communities, enhance local general competences, celebrate nature and improve the immediate environmental conditions.
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