Jarred Anton Frahamer

By introducing classrooms directly to the garden and food systems, students can contribute and interact meaningfully within the future of innovative urban farming. Each structure engages with a unique programme such as; aquaponics, a nursery, fungiculture, a chicken coop, a classroom kitchen, and worm/bees/insects.

The series of buildings do not challenge the students' usable greenspace and incorporates the usage of available wasted/regenerative materials in its construction. Rammed earth tires make up the mass of each hill and its walls, covered in a vegetation layer sitting on recycled wooden pallet chips. The roof framing includes reclaimed timber and hemp stud. Finally the hempcrete slab and linoleum floor.

Each path intersection is decorated with endemic Victorian plants, providing a rich play and learning environment for students. While addressing the future of our garden/farming techniques, the curated native plants act as an anchor to the landscape's history and identity. Scattered around are; enfield grevillea, kangaroo paws, wallaby grass, dianella, wimmera bottlebrush and white banksias.

An educational object made from plastic and e-waste, to teach mechanical properties through physical interaction. Components are used from an old 3D printer and new parts have been injection moulded, using collected 3D print waste filament.