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c.a.f.a atelier 央艺

Edible House

Index
012
Status
Completed
Year
2024
Discipline
Architecture
Landscape

A small house that folds a vegetable plot into its section. The roof collects rain, the corridor doubles as a seed bed, and half the rooms close down for winter. It cost about what an ordinary farmhouse costs and yields roughly four hundred kilograms of vegetables a year.

Design
Lin Wei
Mentor
Shen Zhibai
Photography
The studio
The south elevation of Edible House, its roof gutter tilting towards the yard.
A section model with seed beds running the length of the corridor.
The corridor in summer, climbing crops on both sides.
The winter plan, with half the rooms shut down.
The roof gutter where it discharges into the yard.
The first year’s yield, weighed and recorded by month.
The corridor in November, the seed beds emptied.