Adaptive Cohabitation Concept in Rotterdam

Space is becoming scare, property is for the rich, what can be questioned in the way we share things?

According to WRI research, the world will have to close a gap of 56% between the amount of food available today and that required by 2050. We should be able to see where and in what season we are if we look at our plate, a case that can be handled differently in cohabitation.

Next to the environmental advantages that coliving comes with, a wide spectrum of ethnic backgrounds can be the right circumstance to cultivate food in a new way, with a group of people, the basic lifeline becomes the centre of connection. Food has the ability to bond beyond ages, concepts and practices. It reflects our own values, history and identity and helps us to discover other attitudes and rituals.

In this hunt to an effect-full usage of coliving the proposal focusses on the vacant Citrus Veiling in the M4H area in Rotterdam. An area that can be perceived as a clean sleeve on how to organise urban life due to the fact that it is the only place left close to the center that issn’t fully build on. This makers district breeds food-related initiatives such as the Voedselbank, Floating Farm and the Voedseltuin and is fruitful ground for potential collaborations.

It could involve foodstudies, learning about fermentation, cultivating fungi, vertical gardening, traditional methods and reducing food waste.

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Leftovers
turned into

Oat, coconut, fruits,
kurkuma.

Composite burgers
(Peas and spices added)

Soup
(Mashed)

De Citrus Veiling

Floating Farm

De Voedselbank

De Voedseltuin

Breakfast in Costa Rica, visiting a permaculture community where they have little to no waste due to their creative way of using remaining ingredients from previous meals.

Leftovers
turned into

Provide housing for people from different walks of life

Reduce waste as a collective household

Dutch separate households throw away around 590 million kg a year.

Draw proposals for food cultivation in communities

Parasite extension

Corten steel parasite extension

Coincidence Room

Level 1 & 2

Ground level

Interconnecting glass level

Extra housing opportunities and greenhouse explorations. 50/50

Big joint area

residential floors, both with
living space for ~13 people.

Foodprogram uses

Space for educational purposes + library.

Sharp shapes, looking like a chemical take over is the result of a material study into Corten Steel. It comes to life with unpredictable future aesthetics affected by its environment and creates a strong contrast between the austere building and the new expansion.

Aim

In numerous ways acids is the overall topic that sews the symbolic arguments together, such as the history (citrus auction), in a physical way on the facade (patina), the food program, (preservation of food and experimenting with new techniques), geographic features (materials in the surrounding harbor)

YEAR

CLIENT

PRACTICE

2022

Architectural
proposal

School
project

Visualisation

Foodprogram