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CASE STUDY :Sky Farm / VRAP The Book of Burial, The Book on Agriculture and Exploitation of the Works of Nature. The history of traditional rural settlements in  China  demonstrates how Chinese agricultural techniques have evolved. These traditional rural construction works, led by small-scale peasant economies, are multi-field and trans-scale projects that have admirably integrated geography, irrigation works and agriculture. This type of production-promoting compound construction has captured our attention and we have dubbed it “agritectonic”. In late 2015, Vernacular Research and Practice (VRAP) began to apply the concept of agri-tectonic to a number of micro-projects. With “agriculture inclusive urbanism”, a means to realize urban renewal, we try to find the possibility of agriculture feeding cities by designing an experimental model. “Sky Farm”, located in a village in Nantou in Shenzhen, is one of these proj

The Tirana River is a river that crosses the northern part of Tirana, in the area called "Bregu i Lumit". It forms the northern administrative border of Tirana and divides it from Paskuqan Municipality. The Tirana River is formed by the merging of mountain streams in Zall Dajt. Its stream is clean up to the "Shkalla e Tujanit"  and the village of Brar. In its upper stream, the river has a clear stream, with crystalline waters and rich water worlds. Among the species to be mentioned, is the freshwater crab, Potamon fluviatile . After the village of Brar, the Tirana River waters are largely polluted by wastewater, waste and various solid and liquid waste from both sides of the river banks. First of all, I would like to start with these two pictures. The first one was taken 5 days ago at our site visit and the second one was taken in last year's spring. Just have a look. Nothing have changed in a positive aspect, except for the pollution that is having a wide spr

The element I wanted to highlight to show the shift from the Industrial Society to the Information one is the Urban Space . Since it is such a wide topic, I wanted to focus on the public space, its change during different periods of time and its evolution, and maybe why not suppose how it could develop in the future.  I would have started it from the antiquity when people of the ancient greece gathered around the city "square" as it was called "agora", but I guess we already know that the importance of this important urban space have always been appreciated.  I will go back to the modernity of Le Corbusier who turned all the city in a square, where the buildings were all giants in the city where the dimensions where a bit misunderstood for that time. In Modernity buildings lost the connection with the land, and with “pilotis” they worked as if they were gravity free.   The Villa Savoye at Poissy, designed by Le Corbusier in 1929 , represents the culminati

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