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.
read moreToo 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.
read moreWe 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.
read moreThe 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.
read moreFood 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.
read moreDesigning 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.
read moreWe 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.
read moreWe 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.
read moreVertical farms lead to • resilient cities - fulfilling Global Sustainable Development Goals • new services • activation of public spaces for market, trade, gastronomy and leisure • transparency in food production • transparency in the food production chain • healthy organic local produced food products • support for an energy optimized urban planning and…
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