Thursday, December 15, 2016

City Agriculture - December 15, 2016

Guizhou – Mountain Forest Hotel:  a vertical forest hotel so green that it may also purify the surrounding air
http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/portfolios/guizhou-10-thousand-peaks-valley-project/

Paris “Mille Arbres” or Thousand Trees building with an urban park on the ground and a forest in the sky
http://inhabitat.com/reverse-pyramid-in-paris-is-a-sustainable-urban-community-up-in-the-sky/

Vertical farming and urban ag tech article
http://www.core77.com/posts/57398/The-Urbanization-of-Farming—A-Love-Story

Living wall in London for construction site
http://www.arup.com/news/2016_11_november/1_november_arup_and_grosvenor_champion_new_living_wall_technology_in_mayfair

Regenerative villages
https://www.businessinsider.nl/self-sufficient-village-regen-2016-9/

Amsterdam - redesigning Amsterdam for urban agriculture and more
http://www.hofmandujardin.nl/oamsterdam/
http://inhabitat.com/urban-farming-food-markets-and-parks-replace-banks-and-parking-lots-in-this-masterplan-for-amsterdam/

Artisan Moss - moss for green walls - I wonder if they are doing edible mosses too
http://www.artisanmoss.com
http://www.artisanmoss.com/retail-residential-gallery/
http://www.artisanmoss.com/gallery-commercial/

Mississauga Food Bank starts an aquaponics food farm
https://www.themississaugafoodbank.org/aquaponics-101/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-aquaponics-1.3865423

Living Food Bank - their first is in Haiti at the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission in St. Louis Du Nord
http://aquaponics.com/living-food-bank/

Agora Gardens in Taipei - a green building that absorbs CO2
http://vincent.callebaut.org/object/130122_taipei/taipei/projects

Michigan Urban Farming Initiative - America’s First Sustainable Urban Agrihood is "two-acre urban garden, a 200-tree fruit orchard, a children’s sensory garden, and more. Annually, the urban garden provides fresh, free produce to about 2,000 households within two square miles of the farm."
http://www.miufi.org

Mobile greenhouse for urban farming
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-12-08/insurgent-architecture-students-built-a-mobile-greenhouse-to-overcome-urban-farming-challenges?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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