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Productive Parkscape: Regent’s Park Food Bank

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Unit PG11
Year 5

Food resource waste and food poverty are considerable social and environmental issues in London. Referring to the food supply framework, the project outlines a strategy for integrating food production and waste disposal through surplus food redistribution. It uses Regent’s Park as a site to conduct a large-scale research exercise and then produces an experimental food community scheme in the northeast corner of the park.

To cope with hunger and housing deprivation during the post-pandemic period, the food hub employs homeless people around this place as labourers, while providing sufficient food and proper shelter. The community—which consists of housing and food-related spaces such as food banks and composting campuses—integrates food production, collection, provision, distribution, and waste disposal. In addition, terrace gardens, roof orchards and growing land, form a productive landscape in the sustainable food community, where a space is created for a harvest festival and a fantastic party for food celebrations.

Regent’s Park as a Food Hub

Many supermarkets, convenience stores, bakeries and green groceries in this area generate a large amount of surplus food.

Arrangement of the Whole Park

The overlapping cut-out layers represent the new layout of the park with the food community proposal.

Experimental Layout of the Food Community

The food community consists of three spatial types of housing on a small, medium and large scale, respectively, and a series of independent infrastructure blocks.

Maximising the Food Production

Maximising the Food Production

The food-related functional buildings are connected through gardens and terraces, covered by growing land with fruits and vegetables.

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The Bartlett
Summer Show 2021
23 July – 07 August 2021
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