EcoFarm

Self-Sustainable Meat Market Feeding Ottawa’s Low-Income Neighbourhoods

EcoFarm Meat Market is based in Lebreton Flats, Ottawa, an expansive Brownfield site abutting the central downtown core. The market’s adjacency to newly thriving neighbourhoods, as well as its numerous connections to public transit, will allow the market to profit over the next ten years.

Once food production is stable enough to afford a surplus, mobile units will begin driving out to communities with little or no access to fresh meat and fish products. Satellite markets will be temporarily established in sectors of these neighbourhoods currently farthest from grocery stores, and within easy walking access for the majority of customers.

The base marketplace is fully self sustainable, solely relying on natural resources to propagate a constantly producing cycle. The utilized technology required for processes, such as solar and wind energy harvesting, anaerobic digestion, and hydroponic systems are all displayed throughout the complex for educational purposes.

The project was composed as a satirical statement on the abundance of resources necessary for meat production.