Sunday, April 10, 2016

City Agriculture - April 10, 2016

Stockholm’s new City Districts Environmental and Planning Offices will be a greenhouse
http://inhabitat.com/could-stockholms-new-greenhouse-building-end-boring-municipal-design/
http://media.wix.com/ugd/7d0599_10f53d9ef61a46ad842cbad7c40fd708.pdf - full proposal (in Swedish but the pictures tell a story)

Plug-in ecology urban farm pod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3p4CJS-6E
http://inhabitat.com/urban-farm-pods-brilliant-plug-in-ecology-could-revolutionize-urban-farming/

Nursery Fields Forever - farming for preschoolers
http://www.awrcompetitions.com/competition/31/london-nursery-school
http://inhabitat.com/farming-preschool-would-teach-kids-how-to-grow-their-own-food/

Hong Kong food growing arcology towers
http://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/07/weston-williamson-arcology-skyscraper-kissing-towers-hong-kong-victoria-harbour/
http://inhabitat.com/self-sustaining-arcology-tower-would-bring-urban-agriculture-to-the-heart-of-hong-kong/

OxyGen green roofed garden building for Paris business district
http://www.stephanemalka.com/en/2016/02/ogyxen/

Floating Fields - a factory recycled into a multi-ecology growing system
http://www.archdaily.com/783314/floating-fields-wins-shenzhen-uabb-award-and-is-set-to-continue-through-2016

Infarm - modular vertical grow spaces for supermarkets and homes
https://infarm.de

Farm Follows Function - a comic book on transforming NYC’s MetLife Building into a vertical farm
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/nycs-iconic-metlife-building-becomes-a-vertical-farm-in-quirky-architecture-comic/

Ikea indoor garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv9wD2HNSnA

Ecoqube desktop aquaponics device
http://getecoqube.com

Energaia - growing spirulina algae on a Bangkok rooftop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03FodbygCwU