Share the Farm

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

Date: 2018 Winter

Location: Shougang, Beijing, China

Group Work & Individual Rework

Instructor: Wei Sun

Third Prize in 2017 Vertical Farming competition

Shougang Group, as one of China's largest steel mills, officially moved out of Beijing in 2008, symbolizing the end of an industrial era. The abandoned industrial site turns into the isolated site in city while sharing economy prevails, rapidly occupying urban space and becoming a new consumption pattern in China.

I have noticed that the abandoned factory has the geographical advantage of being close to the city, but it is still difficult to build sizable agricultural transformation without human devoted in and adequate cash flow in. From the demand site, urban white collars yearn for proximity to nature, willing to experience creative picking and enjoy organic food, being too far from countryside is their biggest obstacle. Thus the abandoned factories, if well organized, have the capacity to build capital chains that satisfy city’s’ demand. This connection can run healthily and increasingly once the mutual satisfaction is built from demand site and supply site. It also brings health education, facilitates modernization of agriculture, reduces the transportation cost of food supply and entertain people, which is the mechanism of sharing economy. We use the Internet as a working medium to tie city with farm to transform abandoned industry to agriculture. That is SHARING FARM.

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