The project begins with the tomato, an everyday object that becomes a vehicle exploring food production, domestic space and community. More than a crop, it reflects a politically fragile agricultural system under pressure from global supply chains and imports. The project asks how architecture supports resilient, community-centred housing.

A central strand is the development of tomato-based biomaterials, reusing agricultural waste while responding to heat, water scarcity, and climatic stress, where environmental performance and ecology are inseparable. Alongside this, the project examines Spanish housing culture through literature, film, and television, particularly Aquí No Hay Quien Viva, where shared circulation spaces become sites of social intensity. This informs a model centred on cultivation, shared labour, and collective infrastructure.

Located in El Ejido, Almería, within Europe’s vast greenhouse landscape, the proposal retrofits an existing residential block for migrant workers and local families. Housing is reimagined as a framework for shared ownership, environmental repair and resilience, redefining north–south exchange through lived experience rather than extraction.