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Eldercare Review | Monday, April 17, 2023
Home Farm incorporates the normally siloed movements of commercial farming and aged-care living.
Fremont, CA: Retirement housing meets vertical urban farms – this, in a nutshell, defines the suitably named ‘Home Farm,’ an impressive architectural scope put forth by the firm Spark. The spatial ambit associates elderly care with care, such as a community with multiple homes, healthcare facilities, and green farms. And beyond what may as feel gimmicky, the complete infrastructure will be about the core empowerment of the inhabitants living inside while including a range of sustainable measures comprising rainwater management and biomass power plants.
The Home Farm is pictured as a solution for two distinct issues impacting the urban class in South East Asia, one social and the other economic. The first predicament connects how a notable part of the urban population accounts for elderly people with no social security. However, the second issue indicates how most cities import food instead of producing the volumes. In theory, the Home Farm solves both of the issues – by letting old people stay in a safe urban community and utilizing their contribution to developing localized food varying from vegetables to fruits.
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Another way, the residents can be presented with a part-time job in micro-agriculture for their community. Successively, the economic get back from the produce can fund healthcare organizations and other conveniences. But it should be stated that farm-based work shouldn’t be a precondition for tenancy – as that could put excessive pressure on the possible occupant. Instead, they should be offered the prospect of working on farms (and other subordinate activities, like packing the food) and hence create some income for future authorization.
There is no purpose in ‘forcing’ the inhabitants to work, some naturally will be interested in the gardening activities, and some will be disinterested, which is quite normal. Hence, a professional team will run the fertile garden as a viable business.
Due to that fact, the Home Farm will include spatially efficient agricultural technologies such as vertical aquaponic farming and rooftop soil planting. As for the dwelling side of affairs, the community will include distinct house types, ranging from studio flats to larger homes with four-bedroom plans. These environments will be particularly integrated along ambled curvilinear blocks, and these joint spatial hubs, successively, will be organized around the comprehensive farming areas.
Home Farm incorporates the normally siloed movements of commercial farming and aged-care living. The commercial farming movement helps its residents in a socially and ecologically sustainable environment, enabling the older generation to maintain an active community involvement that reduces dementia and encourages self-esteem.
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