Its been a while since we have featured a concept vertical farm but with our upcoming collaborative

Its been a while since we have featured a concept vertical farm but with our upcoming collaborative workshop sharing this Mont Parnasse concept for Paris seemed appropriate. The quoted write up below does well to describe that while vertical farming may not solve all of our food challenges, it could represent the future of the sustainable city. Successful vertical farms require holistic design and usually massive capital investment which make planning for them especially intensive (and hopefully thoughtful). The successful vertical farms of the future will be developed by the most integrated of professional teams. Architects and engineers will speak and work with growers and CEA experts like never before to develop these multi-layered urban farms of the future. The rise of vertical farms will also force politicians and city planners to take a fresh look at their food security and distribution inefficiencies, teaching them much more about the nuts and bolts of their city along the way. In short, vertical farms embody the Food/Energy/Water nexus and the ambition to build them might just hold the key to resilient cities.  MONT PARNASSE With the environment as a major ideology of the XXI century, the vertical farm could as well be the urban expression of this phenomenon. After all, if the city embodies the largest form of economical and social organization, by accommodating more than half of the world’s population, logically it should be altered by the ecological challenge that we face. The need to meet our commitments should already justify the possible insertion of an unique form of nature, preserved and domesticated. Evoking an environmental, ecological and economical progress, the Vertical Farm turns out to be a poetical symbol of the very act of feeding, like the Horn of Plenty. Its sophistication won’t be condemned as far as it conveys educative knowledge, helping the population understand its mission and meaning. Although it is a sort of factory, the implemented technology within simply serves as a support for plants, enhancing their natural cycle. As a pilot project, the Vertical Farm in Montparnasse will play a role of exception, in the sense that other kinds of farms varying in scale, service and functioning will, together, partially produce food where we consume it. Without intending to totally replace existing farms, this new array of equipments will tend to work as a complementary mean to feed the population in a local yet wide scale. Indeed, before the Petroleum Age, a great part of our wastes and resources were treated at a territorial scale. This anticipation survey was elaborated in parallel to the lead of the research laboratory in urban farming at SOA, architects of the Tour Vivante, and in collaboration with Dickson Despommier, inventor of the Vertical Farm concept. Some of the studies made are even likely to be implemented in a near future. SOURCE -- source link

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