ALINA :: primalinea :: The Vertical Farm Sculpture for Museums

What the plant needs to grow: Light, Car­bon diox­ide, Water.

The Vien­na High-Spring-Water sup­plies our plants at Tech­ni­cal Muse­um in  Vien­na with Nitrate, Chlo­ride, Sul­fate, Flu­o­ride, Cal­ci­um, Mag­ne­sium, Sodi­um and Potassium.

To sup­port opti­mum growth of our plants, we add
sodi­um, potas­si­um and phos­phates to our water, three of the most impor­tant micronu­tri­ents in plant cultivation.

The opti­mum light need­ed for plant growth is too low in the exhi­bi­tion area. In order to cov­er the miss­ing light spec­trum and light qual­i­ty, LEDs were posi­tioned, which were devel­oped espe­cial­ly for plant cul­ti­va­tion. Plants love the red and blue parts of the light spectrum.

Small pumps ensure the enrich­ment of the water with oxy­gen and the water cycle itself.

The exper­i­men­tal sculp­ture is in a per­ma­nent process of transformation.

With each vis­it at the muse­um you will per­ceive the plants differently.

Food is every­day, but mul­ti-faceted. Food is a basic human need and an expres­sion of enjoy­ment and lifestyle. How­ev­er, food also places a heavy bur­den on our eco­log­i­cal bal­ance sheet. Food waste on the one hand and hunger and under­sup­ply on the oth­er. What and how we eat has its price - for our wal­lets, our bod­ies, oth­er peo­ple and for the envi­ron­ment and climate.

In an excit­ing jour­ney through the his­to­ry and future of tech­nol­o­gy and food, it became clear: mak­ing food avail­able, durable, edi­ble and afford­able has always been the dri­ving force behind tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion - now the ques­tion is how tra­di­tion­al and mod­ern tech­nolo­gies can make the glob­al food sys­tem more sus­tain­able. The Vien­na Muse­um of Tech­nol­o­gy, which has inte­grat­ed the Unit­ed Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals into its mis­sion state­ment and con­tent, demon­strat­ed how far-reach­ing and close­ly linked our food is to sus­tain­able development.