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Playful AQUAFARMING    The Tirana River is a river that crosses the northern part of Tirana, in the area called "Bregu i Lumit". It forms the northern administrative border of Tirana and divides it from Paskuqan Municipality. The Tirana River is formed by the merging of mountain streams in Zall Dajt. Its stream is clean up to the "Shkalla e Tujanit"  and the village of Brar. In its upper stream, the river has a clear stream, with crystalline waters and rich water worlds. Among the species to be mentioned, is the   freshwater crab, Potamon fluviatile .   After the village of Brar, the Tirana River waters are largely polluted by wastewater, waste and various solid and liquid waste from both sides of the river banks. Tirana River Waters are highly polluted as it approaches Tirana due to the sewage of the sewage of Babrru, Paskuqan, the entire northern part of Tirana, Bathore and Kamza, solid and liquid wastes, as well as gravel crushing from the Tirana River ...

AQUAFARMING How can farming develop a rural zone?! Sk y Farm / VRAP The Book of Burial, The Book on Agriculture and Exploitation of the Works of Nature. The history of traditional rural settlements in  China  demonstrates how Chinese agricultural techniques have evolved. These traditional rural construction works, led by small-scale peasant economies, are multi-field and trans-scale projects that have admirably integrated geography, irrigation works and agriculture. This type of production-promoting compound construction has captured our attention and we have dubbed it “agritectonic”. In late 2015, Vernacular Research and Practice (VRAP) began to apply the concept of agri-tectonic to a number of micro-projects. With “agriculture inclusive urbanism”, a means to realize urban renewal, we try to find the possibility of agriculture feeding cities by designing an experimental model. “Sky Farm”, located in a village in Nantou in Shenzhen, is one of these proj...

Crises of Tirana River The River of Tirana is located in the North part of Tirana, in Paskuqan. The River is formed from the confluence of the rivers  Gjole  and  Zezë , a few kilometers northwest of  Fushë-Krujë . It flows into the  Adriatic Sea  near the town of  Ishëm . The length of the watercourse is recorded in different sources as between 74 and 79 kilometers. Paskuqan  is a city and a former municipality in the  Tirana County , central  Albania . At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality  Kamëz . The population at the 2011 census was 37,349. That part of Tirana is facing a lot of urban and social crisis, like territorial, environmental and very importantly the concentrated poverty. In the photos bellow you can see the today’s situation of the zone. Territorial Crisis The river of Tirana is also facing the problem of the water pollution, the air pollution, ...