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Farm The Gaps! - master thesis by Shidqina & Tan (2021)

Farm the Gaps! is a master thesis project by Lisana Shidqina and Tan Hsuan Lin, two south-east Asians enthusiastic about food, landscapes, and their integration with urban life. The work follows the teachings of agrocivism ("l'agricivismo") by the late Richard Joseph Ingersoll, Ph.D., a lifelong architect, professor, and architecture critic who taught in Politecnico di Milano, Italy. The project investigates the possibility of inserting urban agriculture in residual spaces of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Using the Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPUL) strategy (Vijoen, Bohn, & Howe, 2015) as an extended scale of the urban agriculture concept, infrastructural lines running across Kuala Lumpur can act as connecting productive corridors between the city's sprawled green infrastructure.
A combined neighbourhood & local scale strategy map which takes into account all the relevant elements for design: existing factors of accessibility, user activity zones, infrastructures, electrical transmission towers, clearance and buffer areas.
Design for a new urban park along the Sri Hartamas - Bangsar TNB Headquarters electrical transmission line, over a length of 2 km, covering an area of 12.3 ha. The Plan is broken up into 5 parcels with interconnected themes and functions relating to each micro-environment of each parcel.
Training and workshop activities around the starting KKB area.
Light structured pavilions mark community gathering areas outside the clearance boundaries.
Agricultural space with water reserve.
Planting areas beside the highway.
Improved water retention pond area.
10 Landscape programs ensure the different typologies of micro-environment within the site.
The project aims to promote the application of good agricultural practices in the area, to be integrated into the landscape design.
Prefer to read? Our booklet is available on Issuu! Read it here.
Our online thesis presentation on 27/4/2021, Politecnico di Milano, Polo Territoriale di Piacenza.

Attended by:
Sara Protasoni, Ph.D., Dean of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design Program
Gaia Piccarolo, Ph.D., thesis supervisor
Alessandra Maria Pandolfi, Adjunct professor, DAStU Polimi
Farm The Gaps! - master thesis by Shidqina & Tan (2021)
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Farm The Gaps! - master thesis by Shidqina & Tan (2021)

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