ABF-lab Architects and Engineers

Food Farm-Tower

ABF-lab Architects and Engineers
19. February 2016

Architects
ABF-lab, architects-Engineers    

Team
S2T , Atelier Altern Paysage, Topager

Location
Romainville / Paris / France

Client
OPH ROMAINVILLE

Area
2,000 sm

Project Year
2016

Cost
3.4 M€

Visualization: ABF-lab, Air-studio, Clément Talbot

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 mix. We propose two projects in one. 

Visualization: ABF-lab, Air-studio, Clément Talbot

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 building “implanted” in a “piece of land” that “belongs” 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.

Visualization: ABF-lab, Air-studio, Clément Talbot

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.

Visualization: ABF-lab, Air-studio, Clément Talbot

The experience of a farm building in the city was a way to raise awareness and change behavior towards more environmental and social responsibility. 

Visualization: ABF-lab, Air-studio, Clément Talbot
Drawing: ABF-lab Architects and Engineers
Drawing: ABF-lab Architects and Engineers
Drawing: ABF-lab Architects and Engineers
Drawing: ABF-lab Architects and Engineers
Drawing: ABF-lab Architects and Engineers

Architects
ABF-lab, architects-Engineers    

Team
S2T , Atelier Altern Paysage, Topager

Location
Romainville / Paris / France

Client
OPH ROMAINVILLE

Area
2,000 sm

Project Year
2016

Cost
3.4 M€

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