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\nFig3. Roof-top Potato Farm in Tokyo<\/p>\nWith the current constraint of highly profitable land development, there is a need for alternative “land” for agriculture<\/span> to sustain and survive. Instead of\u00a0costly and contaminating reclamation, free water surface\/waterfront<\/span> with few restrictions\u00a0of property right can be a possible way. It can free agriculture from the threat of urban sprawl and so-called limited land.<\/p>\nHence, the thesis intents to investigate possibility of moving the process of food production onto\u00a0water surface\/waterfront as a way out to sustain both the industry and culture of agriculture. Through the change\u00a0of its social-economic and spatial relationship<\/span> with the urban fabric and soil, new identities of agriculture can be explored and found<\/span>.<\/p>\nHOW?
\n<\/strong>First, the project will start to look for potential\u00a0sites\/waterfronts in a larger scale<\/span>\u00a0according to features like water quality and surrounding urban characteristics through method of mapping. In the current city layout and planning, farmlands are somehow hidden from the crowd. The project might go into a direction of twisting this situation by making the floating farmland at least visually accessible from and influential to the city.<\/p>\nSecond, in a smaller scale, it would be great to broadly explore various\u00a0systems and relationships<\/span> going on within the farm, like irrigation method. Other than traditional farming on soil, water farming and other floating farms can be something interesting to be\u00a0go through. Feasibility on day-to-day basis is important, and so it would be necessary to ask questions like: what food to be produced, how the irrigation system work, way to acquire adequate water and power. Additionally,\u00a0for the floating system, fishery raft of the local fishermen could be be\u00a0referenced.<\/p>\nLast but not least, study of sustainability as well as its long-term development<\/span> would be carried out. Would it be a self-cooperation operation by farmers which allows\u00a0the floating farm\/ community to flexibly expand and grow with a bottom-top approach?<\/p>\nPrecedent<\/strong>
\nTraditional floating farms, Bangladesh
\nSmart Floating Farms, by Javier F. Ponce
\nDrijvend Pavilion, in Rotterdam, by Public Domain Architect
\nNetherlands Pavilion World Expo 2000, in Hanover, by MRVDV
\nHope Waters Dome, in Jamaica, by Dinesh Ram
\nGreen Float, In Japan, by Shimizu Operation<\/p>\nBibliography<\/strong>
\n1. Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. 2014. Consultation Document: New Agricultural Policy: Sustainable Agricultural Development in Hong Kong.http:\/\/www.fhb.gov.hk\/download\/press_and_publications\/consultation\/141229_f_agricultural\/e_consultation_document.pdf.<\/p>\n2. Legislative Council. 2015. LCQ16: Sustainable Development of Local Agriculture Annex 1. http:\/\/gia.info.gov.hk\/general\/201501\/21\/P201501210568_0568_140947.pdf<\/p>\n
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Fig.1.\u00a0Hirsch,\u00a0Jesse, “Floating Farms,” Modern Farmer. 19 March 2014.\u00a0http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2014\/03\/floating-farms\/<\/p>\n
Fig.2. Siu,\u00a0Phila, “Developer seeks end to Fanling Land Dispute,” South China Morning Post<\/em>, 28 April 2016.\u00a0http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/education-community\/article\/1939620\/developer-seeks-end-fanling-land-dispute<\/p>\nFig.3.\u00a0Levenston,\u00a0Michael, “Tokyo – Rooftop and Underground Urban Farming Lures Young Japanese Office Workers,”\u00a0City Farmer News. 5 Novermber 2008.\u00a0http:\/\/www.cityfarmer.info\/2008\/11\/10\/tokyo-rooftop-and-underground-urban-farming-lures-young-japanese-office-workers\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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