Agricultural Campus

University for Business and Technology - UBT

Project idea

The increase of population, the increase of the needs for housing, work, urban development has significantly influenced the increase of global warming, but as another negative factor is the degradation of agricultural land every day and more.
Primary for every architect is man, but primary for man is food, if man will have the most convenient comfort but not enough food can not develop life.
If it continues to degrade agricultural land in this way, there will come a time when we will not be able to produce enough food.
Kosovo has a lot of agricultural land but agriculture is losing more and more space for growth and cultivation of plants, so based on the need I have seen reasonable to give a contribution to agriculture,firstly as an architects but above all as a person that this project to have a positive impact on the population awareness of the current agricultural situation.
Large Krusha a village in Kosovo, has a considerable area of agricultural land and a long tradition of agriculture, but in 1999 it suffered a tragedy during the war where it lost almost all the men and boys of the village, while women remain hopeless, except sadness. They also had to worry about how to take care of their children. After the end of the war the only solution to work and survive was agriculture where they started working the agricultural lands as they worked before the war and in addition to food they earned enough money to take care of their children. Over the years they reap so much success that they now have the current cooperative with which they supply canned food not only to markets inside Kosovo but also abroad.
From this I saw fit to project a memorial for the tragedy of Krusha but above all to be related to agriculture.
The secondary purpose is to give a frozen and dead memorial life and liveliness that in addition to remembering those who contributed to the place at the same time we will enable the survivors to carry out various activities.
The concept begins with the analysis of the memorial word where each analysis is converted into an architectural object of character
agricultural and from each function a closed cycle is formed from food production to its service.
While agriculture helped them overcome a survival challenge at that time,while now agriculture needs us to help it survive due to the degradation of agricultural lands and other negative factors.

Project description

In this project will be developed several functions such as restaurant, fruit and vegetable market, flower shop, canned food production cooperative and agricultural school.
As a start from the urban analysis we have seen that the village is divided into two parts by a very busy road, we saw this barrier as a weakness but at the same time an opportunity to offer a solution that will facilitate movement.
The restaurant and market will be located in the position where they will have easier access from the main road as they are used for daily needs.
The restaurant will be the point where a bridge will enable you to move more safely and enable the village to function as a whole and not separate.
The concept of restaurant service will be through the self-service of raw food from the gardens and greenhouses of the restaurant so that this food can be processed and prepared by the restaurant chefs. Through two ramps we climb to the second floor where during the movement we can see the picturesque beauties of the village.
The market will have space for stalls and warehouses for storing products.
Each flower shop will have its own personal greenhouse and space for selling flowers both inside and outside.
The cooperative has divided the spaces according to the way of food processing, the noisy part is divided with the quiet part and due to the length and easier evacuation the object is divided into passages.
The cooperative is located near the truck parking in a way that the final products are transported as easily as possible and the access of the trucks is not included inside the campus. The cooperative also has its personal greenhouses where it has access both from the cooperative and outside.
The agricultural school is located near the greenhouses of the cooperative where students closely practice their knowledge about agriculture.
The way of movement through the school building is done through ramps where the division of floors is broken and forms a dynamic of movement. The school has enough space for lectures, laboratories and spaces for growing plants with new systems. The whole school is surrounded by several balconies that express the internal dynamics of movement from the outside as well as from the highest levels and here we see the beauties of the village.
Inside the campus, in addition to the walking paths surrounded by greenery, there is also an amphitheater where various activities can take place.

Technical information

Concept:
From analyzes of memorial word
From conceptual models

Technical Drawing:
Situation
Ground floor
First floor
Sections
Facades

Visualizations:
Sketchup
Photoshop

Physical models

Co-authors

Student: Elza Fetahu
Professor: Arber Sadiki, PhD

Documentation

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