CORYTON SOYALAND

Soy products have been one of the largest commodity imports of the UK for decades. However, around 40% of the soy import is related to deforestation of other countries. With latest greenhouse farming technology, it is time to grow soybean locally. Oil pipes and storage tanks on the site are used as main building materials to develop a productive village, growing soybean and producing soybean oil. Birds are actively living and migrating by the site. To protect them, an alternative of traditional wind turbine is found. Buoyant Airbourne Turbine (BAT) minimizes the impact on birds and produce sufficient power. Birds are also encouraged to nest within the projects by the architecture and landscape created. People living in the project come from a food cooperation who runs the project to realize their sustainable ambitions. University students also live here, to study, learn from the nature and test their ideas in this land of experiments. Vernacular is crucial when creating a sense of community. Architecture of the project learns from vernacular structures around the world, to create a new norm: a productive and manual landscape embedded with today’s building technology. This is Coryton Soyaland. A land that is returned.