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Dalem Cheese Farm is an experimental living quarter that embraces the reality of flooding as a natural part of everyday life, while also promoting the local culture of cheese production. This proposal addresses the inevitability of flooding in the down of Dalem, as one of hundreds of other cities along the Dutch Water Defense Line and speculates a new typology of amphibian living that prepares the residents for the next 50 years.
Acknowledging that the problem of flooding is not just an issue of environmental sustainability but also of cultural identity and economic stability, the cheese factory interweaves human inhabitation with cows and utilises local resources to create a unique and culturally sensitive type of cheese, jumpstarting a circular economy in the region. The project focuses on the cohabitation spaces, questioning the precarity of the ground and future living, specifically on how symbiosis can be created by merging the living quarters with cows. By blending living into the factory as humans with animals, a community is compelled to celebrate craft and slow down the rate of production.
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During the World Wars, the Dutch utilised their mastery of water manipulation by creating the Water Defence Line to protect their administrative and economic areas. However, the low-lying polders pose a problem in the age of climate crisis.
The interweaving of program along the dynamic water's edge blurs the boundaries between public and private by infusing culture into daily life. The deliberate integration of domestic and production spaces slows the pace of production.
Breaking down the masterplan into fragments of physical models for testing.
Portfolio film showing the design process and iterations.