Organic Farm

Archstudio, Energy and sustainability, Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Agrarian Landscape, China, Courtyard, Ecological agencies, Ecological researches, Energetic Approach, Farming, Farming processes, Farming production, Food production, Inner courtyard, Landscape, Landscape vs. Architecture, Project, Structural Plywood, Sustainability, Tangshan City, Territorial Approach, Timber, Urban Paradigms, Warehouse, Wood, Wood construction, Wooden ceiling

The project is located in the farmland on the fringe area of Guye district, Tangshan. Villages and houses are scattered around. The site is a rectangular flat plot of land that covers an area of 6,000㎡. The basic function of the building is acting as a processing workshop for organic food: raw materials come from organic producing areas across the country; they are collected, processed and packed here; and then they are delivered to other places as finished products. The design is inspired by a traditional courtyard building. The initial idea was to build a magnified courtyard house – a workplace full of natural atmosphere and flexibility, which would be self-contained and form a corresponding relationship with the surrounding broad and flat field.