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challenge
Integrate a cluster of new and repurposed buildings into farmland and
natural landscape
solution
Our practice joins with the client in seeking to preserve, protect, and
promote environmentally conscious farming. Ultimately, Filigreen Farm will
couple biodynamic agricultural production with research that supports
exploration and experimentation in alternative farming models and
renewable energy sources. The site lends itself to such a future.
We believe that, as a sustainable facility, this working farm can target
the equivalent of a high LEED rating, and we're assessing the practicality
of that.
While new buildings and infrastructure will be added to the site, they
will blend with the natural environment. As our studio envisions this
place-making in the landscape, we're exploring a range of building types
including rammed-earth, hand-built adobe (COB), and straw bale
construction. We're conducting solar and wind analysis.
Our investigation of the environmental conditions of the land will
help establish a foundation for the design context and the possible
strategies and approaches for buildings, building systems, and
infrastructure. Due to the intensity of the place-and-landscape
integration requirements, we are undertaking massing studies and
developing our design ideas for building cluster alternatives in 3D
model form.
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