The city of Daire is characterized by significant community disparities and widespread food insecurity, highlighting a pressing need for community cohesion and accessible nutrition.
This thesis proposes the integration of regenerative agricultural plots within Daire’s urban core to enhance food security and promote sustainable living. Daire’s landscape will bud with nodes of planting, cultivated by the residents enabling direct engagement with sustainable food production. This new landscape not only reconnects the people of Daire with the land but also fosters ecological unity through the cohabitation of humans, cultivated land, and rewilded green spaces. Anticipated future flooding is incorporated into the design, transforming water challenges into assets by creating a water-based civic public realm. These spaces will channel water to community planting plots, optimising agricultural production and enhancing urban drainage.
Architectural interventions within this network are designed to cultivate a sense of belonging and community cohesion, providing Daire’s community with necessary programme in depleted areas of high population. By merging the built environment with these natural elements, the project aims to unite Daire’s residents around the themes of sustainable food production and communal living. It also envisions a forward-looking Daire where community-focused urban planning and sustainability in food production and consumption are at the heart of the city’s future development strategy.
