01973nmm a22003017a 4500 ES-BaAUN 20231003074629.0 221102b ||| |o||j| 00| 0 eng d 2575-5374 ES-BaAUN eng ES-BaAUN Strohmayer, Juergen 1990 architect. Fair Trade Zone: Circular Economy as a Spatial Metabolism urbanNext, April 20, 2023. 663 words. Juergen Strohmayer, Low Density, Politics and economics, Project, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms. Circular economy, Project The design of the Fair Trade Zone understands the circular economy as a spatial metabolism between architecture and landscape. Led by a women’s cooperative, the Fair Trade Zone in Akuse, Ghana is based on an alternative model for integrated sustainable manufacturing, agriculture, and eco-tourism in Ghana. While the raw materials processed in the built interior grow outdoors in productive gardens, the buildings harvest rainwater and nourish the plants with ecologically purified production wastewater through the courtyard’s drainage channels and gravity-fed furrow irrigation. The result is a striated landscape composed of different biomes suitable for the diverging ecological requirements of a dye garden, a paper garden, a textile garden, a skin care garden, and an energy garden. Interwoven into the productive terrain are a variety of spaces including modular indoor production rooms bordered by shaded outdoor circulation spaces that open onto courtyards and social spaces. Technology and fabrication Low density Urban paradigms Politics and economics Circular economy Akuse, Ghana Ghana Chrili Car architect. https://urbannext.net/fair-trade-zone/ Access to info ddc CF 0 3033 3033 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2023-10-03 0 2023-10-03 2023-10-03 CF