We have recently highlighted the localized idea of urban farming and simple hydroponic farming in your own home, but what if you could take it to a whole different level? What if we could feed an entire city through beautiful green towers dispersed around town? We do this with Water towers, why should it be different for food?
The world’s population is expected to increase to 9.1 billion by 2050, according to the UN. Feeding all those people will mean increasing food production by 70%, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, through a combination of higher crop yields and an expansion of the area under cultivation. But the additional land available for cultivation is unevenly distributed, and much of it is suitable for growing only a few crops. So why not create more agricultural land by building upwards?
The technology is here as described in the video above produced by the Economist showcase four recent projects from up-and-coming architects who describe their designs for their vertical farms of the future.
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Fermín Beltrán has worked in Architecture for many years gaining a wide range of real-world design and construction experience. He is fascinated by finding alternatives methods of creating modern architecture in ways that are sustainable, elegant, comfortable and functional.
He has vast experience designing and constructing a wide array of buildings ranging from state-of-the-art music halls to social housing and even small holdings in South America. He is currently completing a Masters in Advanced Sustainability at the University of Dundee in Scotland
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Trecroci, I agree. The romans the Incas, the Aztecs and the mayans before them all used green architecture and integrated agriculture with daily life. (and the last three ‘advanced’ civilizations didn’t develop the wheel!
Thanks for the comment.
Trecroci4
Vertical farms could be the solution, no doubt if the Roman Empire still continued today, they would have developed sustainable farm buildings…
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