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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.
Many supermarkets, convenience stores, bakeries and green groceries in this area generate a large amount of surplus food.
The overlapping cut-out layers represent the new layout of the park with the food community proposal.
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.
The food-related functional buildings are connected through gardens and terraces, covered by growing land with fruits and vegetables.