Grow. Feed. Educate

Grow. Feed. Educate: Sustainable farming growing naturally over time

Lazar, Lorena (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Nottrot, Robert (mentor)
van der Meel, Hubert (mentor)
van de Pas, Roel (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2018-04-20

Following the model of collective farming of the Soviet Union, Romania’s agricultural sector was transformed during communism in Agricultural Cooperatives for Production. In the period 1949 – 1962, the country’s agricultural land was collectivized in such state-owned cooperations. The project ended up failing and leaving the country’s sector of agriculture in a very unproductive state. The fall of this regime in 1989 has left the newly privatized farms abandoned and in need of redevelopment. The typology is present all throughout the country, in almost every commune. By creating a redevelopment strategy for a farm in the South of Romania, in the village of Cojasca, this whole new design can serve as example for other farms throughout the country. For the redevelopment strategy, sustainability was the keyword, with the design addressing its three main area: social sustainability (high mix of functions), sustainability in agriculture & farming (principles of permaculture) and sustainability in construction (low-impact materials and passive design).

Farming
Sustainability
Redevelopment
Permaculture
Low-impact materials
Natural materials
Embodied energy
Passive design
Heritage
Romania
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master thesis

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