Category: LANDSCAPES

URBAN AGRICULTURE IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS

To better understand how urban agriculture is pro­moted in residential areas, the Fundacion Antonio Nunez Jimenez invited us to visit the Consejo Popular Camilo Cienfuegos, a large residential set­tlement on the eastern edge of Havana, built after the revolution, housing some 11600 people. The settlement’s people’s council oversees the imple­mentation of urban agriculture. In February […]

INFRASTRUCTURE AND URBAN AGRICULTURE

In this section three situations are examined. First, the infrastructure supporting urban agriculture at a municipal level (Rodas), second the role and obser­vations of an independent foundation in Havana (Fundacion Antonio Nunez Jimenez De La Natualeza Y El Hombre) and finally an overview of the practice of urban agriculture in a particular neigh­bourhood (Consejo Popular […]

EDGE DEVELOPMENT TOPOGRAPHICAL EDGE

In several instances ground has been levelled to provide a horizontal surface for cultivation. Horizontal planes accen­tuate undulations in the surrounding landscape and change the way in which an observer sees the market garden. These changes between the level of ground on which a pedestrian walks and the adjacent market garden mean that at times […]

EDGE DEVELOPMENT THIN EDGE

Here a minor intervention, a wall 3 metres high, introduces a series of significant spatial divisions. The location and dimension of the wall simultaneously separates and links the organoponico to adjacent buildings. At ground level, the space between the wall and buildings is perceived as an urban area, like an urban square, or plaza, bounded […]

EDGE DEVELOPMENT DUAL NATURE EDGE

Windows in buildings on the edge of urban agriculture sites offer views with different characteristics. The view towards urban agriculture presents an image, which is rural in character. Windows facing other directions present an image urban in character. Thus, within a given building different conditions may be experienced, setting up different moods in different spaces. […]

. CHARACTERISTICS UNIVERSIDAD DE CIENFUEGOS

CROPS MATERIALS precast concrete slabs held in place with metal hoops, some recycled stool legs, tar macadam, earth, chain-linkfence, precast concrete posts Figure 17.18 Figure 17.19 ORGANOPONICO LA CALZADA CHARACTERISTICS CIENFUEGOS An organoponico with potential for introducing a coherent landscape strategy, connecting major circulation routes to a leisure landscape alongside a river which runs through […]