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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Cuchi Organic Farming Masterplan in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.April 18th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Integrated Field Co.,Ltd. Since the Vietnam War is over in late 70s, the country suddenly joined the global capitalism caravan. Dramatic urbanization and economic growth drove food industry to be overcapacity-grown. Nowadays, food crisis awareness is controversially urges among Vietnamese society. Cuchi Organic Farming Masterplan is design proposal for 600-Hectares-decommissioned rubber plantation in Cuchi, Vietnam. The client acquired the land and aimed to transform the under-utilized site to be an organic food production farm provided from animal feed, livestock, fruit, and vegetation in the closed-cycle operation. The first phase of 50 Ha. is an agro-tourism destination offering visitor holistic experience of food cycle.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.
 Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd. The first question that urged from very beginning of the project is how can we earn trust from consumer? To answer this question, we propose experience of organic food cycle through journey in the farm. Relationship among animal and plant is boldly emphasized, from agricultural requirement to visitor route and activities. At the intersection of different farming zones define as leaning node, such as Agro-forestry node, Food cycle node, and Livestock node. Visitor route is designed to pass each node as learning spot concluding main idea of each area some can also further explore deeper in each farming area and learning by doing in some farming activities such as, grow & harvest class or learn to produce organic fertilizer. These learning nodes are keys to understand how organic process works in reality, offer visitor empirical knowledge of food production. Eventually, understanding leads to trust in sincerity of the farm. The project also offers facility like farm-stay accommodation, farm-to-table restaurant, farmer market, and co-farming area where one can rent certain plot area to farm his/her order. Existing rubber tree is selectively kept as a windbreaker for filter air contamination and almost 80 percent preserved in the tourist and accommodation area.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd. Each node explanation The Agroforestry node, is at the intersection of three different type of plants, exhibits the ecosystem among fruit tree, scrub, vegetable, and herbs. The idea is to show the visitors the natural way how these plants and support each other naturally. The core idea of organic approach is visualized at the water reservoir area where planting and livestock meet. The food cycle walkway offer visitor realization of how food produced from the water supply as the beginning of life – corn and glass that feed for livestock animal – then animal manure is fermented to use as fertilizer for plants – then again, some plant go to processing warehouse while some are animal food as an organic loop.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.  Image Courtesy © Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.
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