Vertical Farms. The current 3.3 billion global urban population is expected to grow to 5 billion by 2025...
Today our agricultural footprint is the size of South America...what will it be tomorrow... Source EDITT Tower (“Ecological Design In The Tropics”) is being built in Singapore with the financial support of the National University. The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond. The Vertical Farm Blog: New Vertical Farm Design. The Incheon International Design Awards (IIDA) 2010 Award winners have just been announced on Design Bloom, and one of them is for a vertical farm.
The designers, Benet Dalmau, Saida Dalmau, Anna Julibert, and Carmen Vilar expain: We wanted to build a new environmentally-friendly town where the environment is considered as an important part of everyday life. We propose "Spiral Garden System": a public sustainable place like a green heart, easy to maintain and self-sufficient, created by a joint population that will stimulate social interaction among neighbors...To sum it up, we propose an ecological project in a way to give sustainable change to daily city lives, where humans and nature can coexist. Sounds great to me! Planting the seeds of Vertical Farming.