u.a.s. (urban agriculture surface) by ramiro omar vazquez compañy from argentina

U.A.S. (Urban Agriculture Surface)

Objective:

The research on materials and their uses in a non traditional way, create a new space which contains a cultivation system of eatable and/or ornamental species, tending to the transformation of the landscape of the informal urban net.
In this way the incorporation of an activity-use is proposed to resolve the necessities of the community which inhabits in marginal urban areas usually call slums.
The constructive model proposed goes from the study of the part (the detail) to the ensemble and the context.
The project is inscribed in the contemporary challenges of the sustainable discussion.

The material:

The use of board as a primary material of the module constitutes a new surface which serves as a support and container of the species to be cultivated.
The material, which is granted with a new meaning, is generated as of the recycling of different packing and containers of liquid and solid products acquired in the everyday market.
The way it is disposed, assembled and combined among the parts of the cultivation modules are the appropriate to have a maximum of resistance and portable efficiency.

The new landscape:

A new urban landscape is defined as of the proposition of the modules of floor and cultivated paths. This generates a new innovative landscape in the limits of the public and the private space.
Another use is the application of this system in walls and virtual closings. In this way a vertical cultivation system is incorporated to generate borders and facades. All these options are completing the informal net, alternating the inhabit spaces built with the exterior spaces of communitarian orchards. In this way an improvement in the life quality of the inhabitants organized in working societies is proposed for the creation of a healthier space and a sustainable landscape.