Agriculture urbaine
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Les premières mentions de fougères utilisées comme accumulateurs d’arsenic remontent à 2001, année de la publication d’un article dans Nature. Le 3 juin 2009, le China Daily a publié un long entretien avec Chen Tongbin, spécialiste des sols à la CAS (Académie Chinoise des Sciences). Ce chercheur explique qu’après de longues années de travaux, il a mis au point une remédiation des sols pollués à l’arsenic dès 1999. Chen continue ses recherches sur le sujet mais ses découvertes sont aussi utilisées opérationnellement, par exemple dans le Hunan, à proximité de sites miniers. Ils ont entraîné, dans un rayon de 30 à 40 km, de fortes pollutions.
Dépollution des sols : la Chine cultive les plantes" accumulatrices"
The Urb – Urban Beehive for Homes by Chris Weir
Urban Beehive The reddot award winning Urban Beehive from Philips Design shows us that ant farms are obsolete and we should be gunning our attention on bees. The Urb is in line with the concept and makes beekeeping a ‘less daunting and more attractive process for novices.’[INFOHIGHTECH]
Daiwa House, le plus grand constructeur de maisons du Japon, a lancé une ligne d’usines préfabriquées pour des légumes hydroponiques, visant à être placés dans des complexes de logements, hôtels et restaurants haut de gamme. Baptisées Agri-Cube, ces unités sont vantés par Daiwa comme la première étape dans l’industrialisation de l’agriculture, qui sera situé dans et entre les lieux où les gens vivent, travaillent et jouent. De plus en plus de personnes désirent des produits bio et durables pour leur propre usage, et se tournent vers l’agriculture urbaine dans le but de s’assurer du plus haut degré de fraîcheur.
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The 9m-tall B&Q Garden, currently under constructions, will be the tallest ever at the Chelsea Flower show. Photograph: ZPR Skyfarming, or growing food on the vertical plane rather than the horizontal, is usually the preserve of sci-fi scenarios where the gardeners probably need jet-packs to tend their plants.
Agriculture Urbaine
Projets Greenroofs.com - Changi General Hospital
The Changi General Hospital website states, "The hospital has made caring for the environment a priority, because the long-term benefits and savings help both people and the surroundings we live in. Patients are often worried and frightened when they come to a hospital. By beautifying the hospital with lots of plants and trees, we wish to create a more serene and restful environment for patients. Similarly, planting hydroponics on the rooftops provides food for the hospital, but also absorbs the heat from the roof, cooling the wards facing it. At the hospital, we also faced huge utility bills.
Générer des rendements plus élevés | VertiCrop
VertiCrop™ provides a cost effective solution for local crop production with significant operating cost savings over traditional field agriculture. This patent pending technology represents a paradigm shift in farming and food production by providing up to 20 times the yield of field crops, while using a mere 8% of the water required for land farming. Growing leafy green vegetables in a unique, suspended tray configuration on a moving conveyor system, VertiCrop™ provides maximum exposure to light (either natural or artificial), along with precisely measured nutrients for each plant. Designed to grow in closed loop and controlled environments, VertiCrop™ eliminates the need for harmful herbicides and pesticides, while maximizing food taste and nutrition. North America’s first ever VertiCrop™ farm is built on the roof of a parkade in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, and is home to Vancouver’s Local Garden .
Tianjin: A model Eco-city in the Eastern World
The Tianjin Eco-City project aims to serve as a legacy for future generations by creating an environmentally friendly, economically viable, and energy efficient urban area. As climate change becomes an increasingly alarming global issue, this project could serve as a valuable model in creating future sustainable developments throughout Asia and the world at large. Photo credit: Surbana Urban Planning GroupWORKac and MVRDV together provided films for “Pioneers of Change” on Governor’s Island in 2009. While MVRDV examined producing all of New York City’s food on rooftops (resulting in an average of 60-stories of farming on every roof) WORKac looked at producing the city’s food organically and sustainably within a 100-mile radius of the city. Through diet changes, strategic reorganizing of rural and coastal areas, the elimination of suburban sprawl and the creation of a “mega-agropolis” by moving 6M people into “New Ark” – made by combining Newark and Jersey City - 20.5M people can be fed. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
New Ark, Mega-Agropolis - Société d'architecture de travail
Imagining an Elastic City
Planters and urban gardening tools at Kennedy Greenway in central Boston, the site of the Occupy Boston encampment. Last spring, after attending a panel about urbanism in Mumbai, I wrote a blog post about what I called the "entropic city" — one that is constantly changing and re-imagining itself. “Entropy,” I argued, “is a cultural and an economic necessity.
1 Depuis 2008, plus de la moitié de la population mondiale habite en ville (UNFPA, 2007). Face aux problèmes soulevés par le phénomène de l’urbanisation, l’ONU propose, à travers de nombreux rapports, la notion de ville viable. Cette notion s’inscrit dans un champ plus large, celui de développement durable. Ce dernier tend à corréler les dimensions économique, sociale et environnementale et se dote d’un outil de mise en application avec l’Agenda 21 local. Le recensement des écrits portant sur la notion de ville viable depuis Rio 92 montre qu’il existe une bonne connaissance des problèmes et des solutions soulevés par le contexte urbain mais, qu’au-delà de la rhétorique, les actions concrètes pour une mise en œuvre d’une ville viable ne sont pas à l’image des discours et peuvent être même qualifiées de décevantes (Brunet, 2006).
Multifonctionnalité de l’agriculture urbaine à Montréal : étude des discours au sein du programme des jardins communautaires
Presentation IASA in Canada
I certainly get around. Last week I was in Toronto at the 4th conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. The ISIE is run by people from MIT and Yale. I had been asked to give a presentation on “ the Glasshouse as a Source of Energy ” and “ Agroparks ” for some three hundred people, mainly scientists and consultants from all corners of the globe. The response to my reports was nothing short of positive, despite the fact that the concept of linking glasshouses to housing was completely new to these people.Atelier d'architecture autogérée (aaa - Studio for Self-managed Architecture) is a practice based in Paris co-founded by architects, Constantin Petcou and Doina Petrescu in 2001. aaa acts as a platform for collaborative research and action on the city and much of their work is carried out with other specialists, artists, researchers and institutional partners such as universities, arts organisations and NGOs, as well as the eventual users of their spaces. Whilst the founding members of aaa remain, the practice operates as a collaborative network that forms around each project. aaa's projects are experiments in the temporary reuse of leftover urban space through the setting up of an enabling infrastructure that is slowly taken over by local residents and transformed into self-managed spaces.
Spatial Agency: Atelier d'architecture autogérée
IL SISTEMA OGGETTUALE. Un tempo oggettuale dunque succede a un tempo dei grandi simboli urbani. Esperienze teoriche hanno origine dentro a una idea di industrial design e non certo a quella di composizione architettonica tradizionale. Una sorta di diffusione planare dei processi costruttivi corrisponde alla logica di una civiltà senza cattedrali, agricola più che industriale. Le nuove frontiere del design si muovono oggi nella direzione che va a collocarsi nell'estensione del sistema oggettuale alla scala del territorio metropolitano. Una direzione teorica e progettuale che vede oggi la città come un sistema di micro-strutture di servizi e di relazioni, che solo in minima parte possono essere attribuite all'architettura tradizionale, compositiva e metaforica, e in grande parte sono di competenza di attitudini progettuali diffuse, deboli, oggetto di un urban management capace di gestire e sviluppare la concorranza urbana, ma non di produrre scelte irreversibili.