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I recently graduated at the faculty of Architecture at the Technical University Delft, in the studio Architectural Engineering. With my graduation project "the Farm of the Future" I investigated the problematic agriculture and land-use of the region of het Groene Hart in The Netherlands, I researched innovative, regenerative farming methods and I designed a new type of farm where natural building materials are being cultivated and processed, but which is also entirely constructed out of only natural building materials grown on the property. I am eager to learn more about regenerative farming and other sustainable solutions for our cities and landscapes. I have a passion for sustainability, not just in architecture but also in design, materialism, agriculture and my own lifestyle. Within the field of architecture I am most interested in material flows, landscape and context, natural building materials and the actual building process and/or self-built. Besides architecture I like to design and built furniture, I sow most of my own clothes, and I like to make ceramics. At the moment I work part-time for the stichting Bouwtuin, an organisation focused on research and design with local natural building materials. Next to this I work at the biodynamic farm & care facility De Bieslandse Hoeve, where I lead a small team of volunteers and clients (people with mental and/or physical disabilities) to cultivate vegetables in a sustainable and responsible way.

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FARM OF THE FUTURE: HOW TO SOLVE THE CONTEMPORARY, URGENT ISSUES IN HET GROENE HART

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
02:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Room

Hall C

Lecture Time
02:55 PM - 03:05 PM

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Contact details:
Roos Köbben
rooskobben@hotmail.com
+31624167195
Graduate student at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, Delft, The
Netherlands
Author: Roos Köbben
Co-Author: Nico Tillie, Mo Smit


Abstract title:
FARM OF THE FUTURE: HOW TO SOLVE THE CONTEMPORARY, URGENT ISSUES IN HET
GROENE HART


Abstract text:
‘Het Groene Hart’ (lit. translated: the green heart) is a relatively green area in the Netherlands,
situated in between most of the big cities; Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. The
region currently faces many issues, of which soil subsidence is the most urgent. Although the
government has stated that the CO2 emission caused by the soil subsidence will have to be reduced
1 megaton by 2030, no real measures are taken so far 1.The problems are mainly caused by the dairy
industry, which covers 80% of the region2. A fundamental change in land-use is therefore needed.
This research offers a solution that tackles several of the most urgent contemporary problems. What
if, instead of using this valuable land to produce massive amounts of dairy and meat to be exported to
other countries, leaving Dutch farmers broke because of factory monopolies, high loans and low milk
prices, we can offer them a new, brighter future? What if the soil subsidence can be stopped and Het
Groene Hart can become more natural and diverse again? What if het Groene Hart can provide
natural building materials for the massive housing shortage in the Randstad (known as the “one
million housing challenge)? This results in the Farm of the Future; a place where natural building
materials are grown, while simultaneously enhancing biodiversity and stopping soil subsidence. The
Farm of the Future will show what the peat landscape really has to offer.

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