Elva Zhang
Food Eudaimonia
Environmental Design
2020
Toronto’s densely and diversely populated urban fabric offers the playground to merge food growth to city life through the manipulation of space. Taking the Ontario Food Terminal as example, my design will be re-imagining the future infrastructures of industrialized food distribution spaces. The goal is to seek a solution to provide alternative food supply with preservation and a faster transportation system to the mass population “intimately” as well as counterbalancing positive spaces with negative spaces to reconstruct and dissolve them to create interaction.
“"Food Eudaimonia" is an architectural exploration to bring the highest good in food of its characteristic as the word eudaimonia suggests flourishing and living-well. Food is both a tangible form that sustains the lives of the planet and an intangible concept that connects people with culture, lifestyle and traditions. The project is aiming to response to the current food supply system, critiquing corporate ownership over food, and the chain effect it brings, such as waste, environmental damages, food justice and the health of general public.The goal is to generate a system and new typology of aggregated spaces that offer an alternative way for experimental food preservation, transportation, and consumption as well as pubic spaces for community engagement into the process based on the principle of sharing instead of private ownership. ”
