BIOLOGICAL FOOD CITY
2011


What would a city with one million inhabitants look like if all the food consumed was produced in the city itself and if that food was grown organically? The "biological food city" envisions how city inhabitants live amid the land required for the production of fruits, vegetables, grains, and other plant-based foods, the huge land area required for the organic production of meat, dairy and eggs, and natural lands (forestry) which provides agricultural surfaces with important nutrients.

To leave space for natural ecosystems, the required surface area is fit on a footprint of 25 by 25 kilometers. Surfaces are arranged in stacked in narrow layers around so-called courtyards, that allow for natural daylight access to all layers and avoid monocultures, and horizontally and vertically connected to enable the distribution of water and nutrients.



Attribution
Team: Natalia Kozyra, Wenhua Wang, Yi Tang, and Lara Tomholt
Instructors: Ulf Hackauf, Jeronimo Mejia, Winy Maas (The Why Factory, part of MVRDV)