In The Garden of Anthropos

In The Garden of Anthropos: The City as a Place for Production

Habostad, Petter (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Caso, O. (mentor)
Koskamp, G. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

2018-07-11

The project acts as a way to bring production back to the city as a part of everyday life in the year 2050, in a time when industry has become individualised as a result of the fourth industrial revolution. At the same time, additive manufacturing (3D-printing) makes it possible to produce just about anything; from shoes and textiles to synthetic biological human tissues, blood cells and organs.

This type of production breaks down several barriers such as the two sides of supply and demand within sharing economy, but also the stance we take of the artificial and the genuine, technology-ecology and city-nature. What does it really mean to be human in a world where anything can be produced from synthesised DNA - is technological production just an extension of our biological selves?

By using the enclosed garden as a typology, the project incorporates production spaces on the lower floors and dwellings on the upper floors, creating a close relationship between living and working. It transpires from the urban to the natural and offers spaces for both individual and communal production within a complete man-made environment, reflecting on human cultivation and production within the historical concept of the garden bridging city and nature.

architecture
garden
garden city
production
Industry
Industry 4.0
additive manufacturing
ecology
amsterdam
Complex Projects
Anthropocene
manufacturing

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