FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY

Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts

Nicanor Reyes St. Sampaloc Manila

AGRIHOUSING: HOUSING DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL BENEFIT

AGRICULTURAL FARMING
CAVITE

In partial fulfillment of the requirements

RESMAR: Research Methods For

Architecture

Researcher: BLANCFLOR, RYAN LUIS C.

Section 2

Adviser:

SARRAGA, VERNA LUCIA

PANLILIO

Consultant:

LOUWIE GAN

DATE:
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CASE STUDY:

COPENHAGEN’S CASE FOR URBAN FARMING: A FEASIBILITY STUDY

In the year of 2025, Copenhagen aims to be carbon neutral. A Copenhagen

environmental organization, Amager Miljpunkt has the interest of knowing how
urban gardening will benefit the Amager’s Environment. Amager's
environmental activism. The environmental, social, political, and economic
benefits of urban agriculture for the economy, community, and public health in
order to assess the needed requirements for putting urban farms into practice
in the area. the researcher looked into the cost of an urban space to be develop
economic projection for potential farm projects. With study the researches
where able to assess the potential of urban farming within amager thru
research, study, survey, and recommendation for enhancing the local
community development to urban farming.

According to the study, the researchers discovered five necessary aims in

undertaking urban agricultural research. These objectives are as follows: first,
knowing the potential market and business models that are feasible in creating
an urban farm; second, analyzing the economic sustainability of Amager's
urban farming efforts; third, identifying requirements for a viable urban farm,
such as site, farm operation, and crop selection, and also labor structure;
fourth, investigating the effect of municipal rules on possible urban farming
ventures; and finally, identifying groups of people who are interested in urban
farming. These goals aided the researchers in gathering knowledge regarding
urban farming in Amager. It supplied the essential questions and needs that
the researcher need to assist them in gathering, surveying, and comprehending
the elements and components of urban farming.

Overall, the Case Study of Copenhagen's Case for Urban Farming: A

Feasibility Study is about learning about the potential benefits of urban farming
within a municipality or town. It offers information on how urban gardening or
urban farming may enhance a town's or municipality's economics,
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environment, and well-being. This case study offers suggestions and

information that may be used to the designer's project. It gave the required
objectives that the designer needs know in order to obtain the necessary
information for building an urban farm or a farm within a developed and
urbanized environment.

HOW DOES URBAN FARMING BENEFIT PARTICIPANTS’ HEALTH? A

CASE STUDY OF ALLOTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE FARMS IN TOKYO

One type of health infrastructure that is gaining popularity in Japan is urban

farming, often known as urban gardening. People residing in Japan's capital,
Tokyo, have access to two types of agricultural programs: allotment farming
programs and experience farming programs. The availability of frequent
communication between persons in these two programs separates these two
programs. The researchers examined the changes and differences in the
participants' self-reported health status using these two urban farming
methods. The researchers then collected data by polling 783 participants in
urban farming and 1254 non-participants, and they were able to evaluate the
data using ordinal logistic regressions. As a consequence, the researchers
determined that those who had taken part in. As an outcome, the researchers
determined that those who participated in urban farming improved their self-
rated physical and mental health significantly. After controlling the physical
activities of the participants, it was determined that people participating in
allotments showed no improvement, whereas people participating in
experience farms showed results. It was stated that the improvement was
caused not only by the physical activities, but also by the interaction of the
participants within the program. Public funding is necessary for health
promotion not just for municipal allotments but also for experience farms
maintained by farmers themselves.

The case study focuses on how urban gardens and urban farms improve the
well-being of program participants. It demonstrates how the urban garden
program has a significant impact on the physical and emotional health of the
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participants. This research may substantially aid the designer's project by

revealing the benefits that can be obtained by constructing an agricultural
housing complex. It has also highlighted various reasons why being able to
farm within a building/residence might have a significant impact on a person or
the community.

URBAN AGRICULTURE PROGRAM IN THE PHILIPPINES: ITS BEGINNING

AND STATUS

The case study summarized the initiatives made in urban agriculture

Philippines program thought the past several years that had come and the
current condition of the program in the present. the study covers the findings
created by interaction by the following government agencies. The following
government agencies are the local government, department of agriculture,
bureau of agricultural research, LGU (Local government units) and others
which are academic in nature.

Likely, the National Integrated Research and Development Framework In

addition, the Extension Program for Urban Agriculture in the Philippines was
presented. Possible collaboration or study with other government and private
agencies institutions in the country and, most likely with other foreign countries.

The study also includes the past and present efforts related to urban
agriculture. It contains on how technologies are developed to help people within
an urban setting to b e able to plant and farm even though they are in an urban
setting. Urban agriculture also provided benefits. This benefits can promote
urban agriculture where people can have a sense of fulfillment and desires
when they plant.

Overall, the study is on how urban agriculture works in the Philippines, with ties
and interactions with government agencies and groups. The study also looks
at the potential results of agriculture in metropolitan regions in the Philippines.
These outcomes can include benefits to a person's mental and physical health
as well as potential chances for the community, such as commercial
opportunities. This research can inform the designer about how well the
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Philippines is handling the concept of urban agriculture. It can advise the

designer if certain aspects of urban agriculture are feasible within a given
region in the Philippines. It also demonstrates the current state of urban
agriculture in the country, and with this information, the designer may enhance
the concept accordingly.

BACKYARD AND COMMUNITY GARDENING IN THE URBAN

PHILIPPINES: A CASE STUDY FROM URDANETA CITY, PANGASINAN

The case study explores current attempts to consume fruits and vegetables in
rural-urban areas of the Philippines. In August 2009, the municipal government
of Urdaneta launched a comprehensive backyard/community gardening
program to address reoccurring community health and home self-sufficiency
challenges.

The research also provides an anthropological dimension to current

understandings. In increasing metropolitan regions, the first worry is hunger,
food insecurity, and an inadequate diet. Second, consider how the response
relates to the issue of household self-sufficiency and well-being. This type of
analysis not only provides new insights into challenges that are increasingly
being faced in cities throughout the Global South, but it also elucidates the
effectiveness of policies that encourage grassroots participation in convincing
local urbanites to produce and consume more fruits and vegetables.

Furthermore, the study focuses on how backyard farming for communities

might assist alleviate difficulties in rural areas throughout the country. It
examines the necessary concerns connected to the aforementioned issues, as
well as how building community gardening will produce good impacts that can
mitigate the mentioned problems.

This case study is relevant to the project of agricultural housing since it also
focuses on establishing a means for backyard gardening within the community.
It is relevant as the project of agricultural housing is creating a housing complex
with agricultural function to it which mean creating a way for people to plant
and even get their necessary needs from a farm from it.as stated it has a similar
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concept that can provide information like effects of having a backyard garden
and how backyard gardens provide benefits from business functions, to user’s
function which are useful to the design of agricultural housing project. Another
similarity is that, like the initiative, the study takes place in a Philippine province.
Some aspects of the study can indeed be applied in a practically same place.
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REFERENCES

Harada, K., Hino, K., Iida, A., Yamazaki, T., H. U., Asami, Y., & Yokohari, M. (2021). HOW DOES URBAN
FARMING BENEFIT PARTICIPANTS’ HEALTH? A CASE STUDY OF ALLOTMENTS AND
EXPERIENCE FARMS IN TOKYO. 13.

Hoops, G., Olshansky, H., Rosen, R., & Tavares, J. (2018). COPENHAGEN’S CASE FOR URBAN
FARMING: A FEASIBILITY STUDY. 97.

Matejowsky, T. (2013). BACKYARD AND COMMUNITY GARDENING IN THE URBAN PHILIPPINES: A

CASE STUDY FROM URDANETA CITY, PANGASINAN. 22.

NITURAL, P. S. (n.d.). URBAN AGRICULTURE PROGRAM IN THE PHILIPPINES: ITS BEGINNING AND
STATUS. 9.