los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Critic: Mark FOSTER GAGE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Dila ERTEN: The Robotic Farming City project is a solution for Midwest’s current agricultural infrastructure problems. With the decrease in the number of farms in Midwest and extreme population growth, the demand for food has been increasing rapidly.
- Dila ERTEN, “Robotic Farming City.”, Perspective
- Dila ERTEN, “Robotic Farming City.”, Perspective
- Dila ERTEN, “Robotic Farming City.”, Perspective
- Dila ERTEN, “Robotic Farming City.”, Perspective
On the other hand, because of the migration from the rural to the urban, Midwest States have started to lose population. In order to overcome these problems, the Robotic Farming City will be a city with the free-agriculture area, robots customized for farming and gigantic residential area. By taking all the farms, houses, rural roads and bridges, the land will be freed-up and all the process will be operated by robots.
The formal approach of the city comes from today’s factories and grain silos. The color palette is shaped according to John Deere, an American corporation company, and the signature colors of the company such as green and yellow are used to a considerable extent. A secondary palette, which contains brighter colors, is also included to support the primary color of the company. While dark-green,mint-green and white represent the types of residential buildings, the yellow color is used for structural parts. The base works as a connection between two parts of the city; processing part and residential part. It’s very easy to detect the processing part of the city thanks to the transparent grain tubes that allow us to see the products.
The process of the grains is being facilitated and shortened with robotic farming. This approach, robotic farming, is an existing and developing technology and in the Robotic Farming City, it’s integrated with different principles to deal with current infrastructural problems. Besides process, transportation is also a huge deal in farming, whether traveled daily or just a few times per year, every mile of county road is vital to the adjoining landowner. That makes road maintenance in an agriculture county tough and expensive business. Today, 54% of major US roads and bridges are in poor or fair conditions. By using robots in farming, it’s also possible to get rid of road maintenance and make the transportation of the goods from the land to the city easier and faster. This high-tech nature of future farming might be a solution for growing population and for producing food.
