In a previous post about green buildings, we touched on the idea of skyfarms, also known as vertical farming. In the future, urban areas may produce a significant amount of their own food in large buildings designed to maximize growing space. Architects are creating more and more designs for such buildings, so watch for more exciting news in this field.
Harvest Green: Vertical Farm by Romses Architects wins Competition
Romses Architects recently won a competition held by the City of Vancouver to “to address climate change plans and to guide greener and denser development, reducing carbon emissions for the future.”
The concept of ‘harvest’ is explored in the project through the vertical farming of vegetables, herbs, fruits, fish, egg laying chickens, and a boutique goat and sheep dairy facility. In addition, renewable energy will be harvested via green building design elements harnessing geothermal, wind and solar power. The buildings have photovoltaic glazing and incorporate small and large-scale wind turbines to turn the structure into solar and wind-farm infrastructure. In addition, vertical farming potentially adds energy back to the grid via methane generation from composting non-edible parts of plants and animals. Furthermore, a large rainwater cistern terminates the top of the ‘harvest tower’ providing on-site irrigation for the numerous indoor and outdoor crops and roof gardens.
What news have you heard about vertical farming? Feel free to share links to other designs and articles in a comment.
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