Pattern
of
Landscape
Regenerating Farmhouse as Community Farm
Oxford Brookes University
MArch I (IARD, International Architectural Regeneration and Development ), Dist
Tutor: Juli Wedel, Sam Woodbridge, Matt Gaskin
Location: Alboraya, Valencia
This project under a specialized research-studio, IARD (International Architectural Regeneration and Development) led by Dr Julia Wedel and Sam Woodbridge, Director of FOUNDED Architect. This specialization create an interdisciplinary approach that combines critical thinking and analysis, as well as creative design. It is based on the ethos that the regeneration and development of the inherited built environment, with its social and cultural fabric, is an essential component of sustainable development.
The site is in Alboraya, a town village that was famous for agriculture, just next to Valencia. It is facing the problem of rapid urban development, lost of vernacular architecture & farming culture, and lost of young farmers population.
The project attempts to regenerate a ruined farmhouse “Alqueria”, a Valencian vernacular architecture, to a Community Farm. It originates from a reading of the primal landscape in Aboraya and try to emphasize the importance of agriculture.
In there, landscape is no longer the decoration of architecture, the two are equivalent and cannot be separated. In this design, different patterns of layers and screens, that extracted from the landscape, are injected in-between visitors and landscape, generating varying degrees of porosity, proximity and transparency of landscape view and space.
