Urban Farming Community Space: an Idea to Overcome the Decreasing of Agricultural Land in Kitakyushu, Japan

1st Annual Applied Science and Engineering Conference

工业技术;自然科学

Julian, T.C.^1 ; Paramita, B.^1

Department of Architectural Engineering of Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi no 229, Bandung

40154, Indonesia^1

关键词: Agricultural land;    Descriptive studies;    Population aging;    Qualitative data;    Reducing co2 emissions;    research methods;    Social and environmental;    Social communications;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/180/1/012274/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/180/1/012274

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Japan faces many social and environmental problems especially population aging, social communication degradation and decreasing of agricultural land. Kitakyushu city is one big city in Japan, which the old people take 30% in population, while younger people are moving to the big cities for working and other desires. it is common that Japanese people is less and less communicate with other people and tend to curl up in their personal space due to the modern stressful life. Besides, a big ratio of Japanese farmers recently did not do the farm work anymore, leading to a considerable abandoned agricultural land. So, there should be done to improve the lives of older people, heal social communication, or revive the barren land. The designing site is placed in Hibikino area, Kitakyushu city, Japan, a farmland area operated by Japan Agriculture Association where citizens can hire some slots to plant vegetables themselves. However, this placed does work effectively when only a few people come to hire the land. This research method is a descriptive study aimed to obtain qualitative data. The purpose of this study was to create a design idea the agricultural community space where parents can work and communicate with children, customers, and strangers with three targets of sustainable environmental, social, and economic. And then, this system not only helps to create the green lifestyle for inhabitant but also improves social communication, reducing CO2 emission with it sustainable working process.