Domestic Ecosystem

Our global food systems are failing our global community by vastly prioritizing an abundance of low-cost foods facilitated by the use of synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides, and high-yield crop in an effort to feed an expanding population. The current model of food consumption and production has an entrenched reliance on the overexploitation of precious resources such as soil, fresh water, and fossil fuels while also acclimating producers and consumers to gluttonous quantities and qualities of industrial waste and pollution. The vulnerability of urban food systems is becoming increasingly apparent in the light of climate change and on-going global conflicts which highlight the particular challenge of globalized, dependency on each functioning element of urban food supply chains. Our project combats physical and psychological disconnection from the process of food production both on a personal and industrial scale to propagate thoughtful consumption and care for human and non-human communities while also proposing an opportunity for source diversification in light of food system vulnerabilities. This project creates the infrastructure for substantive food production in the urban landscape of Geneva and promotes a culture of care for the production and sustenance of the human and nonhuman ecosystem of the building community.
Symbiotic relationships between human and nonhuman inhabitants are integrated into the design to improve the quality of life for all inhabitants in which every actor contributes to the community’s ability to live happy, healthy, fruitful lives as one complex and interdependent ecosystem. The cohabitation of human and non-humans should improve every being’s quality of life while also not compromising the broader goal and effort to create substantive food production for the localized community. We want to create an expandable infrastructure within the domestic space to work towards the expanding human demands within the housing community.