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Why we still struggle to stating the obvious

Why AI sup­ports the next step in fram­ing the com­plex­i­ty of para­met­ric mod­els to move from Phase 1 and 2 to Phase 3 CEA-products

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VERTICAL FARMING 1915

“La novità é la cosa piú vec­chia che ci sia.” Rober­to Benig­ni (Nov­el­ty is the old­est thing there is.) This jour­nal entry pro­vides an insight into the first pub­li­ca­tion in which the des­ig­na­tion “Ver­ti­cal Farm­ing” appears.

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ALINA :: Research Facility :: Horizon 2020 euPOLIS

The upcom­ing weeks and months, sup­port­ed by rec­om­men­da­tions from sci­en­tists to nar­row down the effects from the new COVID-19 virus, should be used to under­stand how much poten­tial there is to real­ly become part of a crit­i­cal mass which wants to con­tribute to make the city of the future a more resilient, a more cul­ture ‑based and — most of all — a more life-affirm­ing environment. 

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What’s on the table is what’s eaten (Part 3: Future)

Cur­rent­ly, the food val­ue chain accounts for about one third of pri­ma­ry ener­gy demand glob­al­ly. Pro­duc­tion, wash­ing, pro­cess­ing, pack­ag­ing, to name just a few ele­ments, are linked via trans­port and sup­port­ed by large-vol­ume stor­age and cold stor­age facil­i­ties with all its fos­sil fuel consumptions.

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What’s on the table is what’s eaten (Part 2: Present)

Too often it seems that efforts of parts of our soci­ety to draw atten­tion to cur­rent chal­lenges relat­ed to main­tain­ing a hab­it­able zone for us are lead­ing to nowhere.

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What’s on the table is what’s eaten (Part 1: History)

We are still part of nature. But with that the dis­cus­sion about nature is closed once and for all. Here it’s about cul­tur­al achieve­ments. About 11,500 years ago, we assumed - step by step - that it might be wis­er to grow food our­selves. From the ini­tial 50.000 m² that a per­son need­ed to feed him­self suf­fi­cient­ly before the Neolith­ic, we now need 2.300 m² per caput.

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The Way Forward

The upcom­ing weeks and months, sup­port­ed by rec­om­men­da­tions from sci­en­tists to nar­row down the effects from the new COVID-19 virus, should be used to under­stand how much poten­tial there is to real­ly become part of a crit­i­cal mass which wants to con­tribute to make the city of the future a more resilient, a more cul­ture ‑based and — most of all — a more life-affirm­ing environment. 

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History of Vertical Farming

Food pro­duc­tion in green­hous­es has a long tra­di­tion. New tech­nolo­gies give the oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op this kind build­ing type. The devel­op­ment of alter­na­tive cul­ti­va­tion meth­ods, com­pare­able to the inven­tion of the ele­va­tor for sky­scrap­ers, lead to a new build­ing typol­o­gy – the ver­ti­cal farm.

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Food production in the heart of the city

Design­ing and devel­op­ing the city of the future needs a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion. By now this chal­lenge no longer can be applied only to archi­tects or urban plan­ners. The grow­ing world pop­u­la­tion implies to rethink cities from scratch. 

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The implosion of the food chain

We under­stand the ver­ti­cal farm as a struc­tur­al ele­ment of the city. This new build­ing typol­o­gy car­ries the poten­tial to rearrange lin­ear mate­r­i­al- and ener­gy flows into cir­cu­la­to­ry ones. This intrin­si­cal­ly leads to an increase of the resilience of urban centres.

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