Microsoft Word - Essai Final David Jacques.doc - 9b22.pdf. Impatience - Des fermes verticales. Vendredi, 29 mai 2009 à 17:50 Zoom sur l'idée de cultiver des produits alimentaires dans des tours agricoles.L'objectif est de produire plus de denrées avec une faible emprise au sol. Découverte et explications. Une tour agricole? Est-ce une utopie pour architecte mégalomane ou un dispositif pertinent pour optimiser l'agriculture en condition difficile? Jean-Claude Rey est l'inventeur de la structure modulaire autoportante permettant le jardinage en étage. Est-ce que ce dispositif s'inscrit réellement dans une perspective de développement durable? Un dossier d'Adrien Zerbini. Liens: A quoi ressemble la ville du futur.
Fermes du futur / Archi / eco design. Indoor farm in Brooklyn helps feed hundreds of families. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an increasingly hip but historically low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, one food pantry is also an indoor farm. The New York Daily News visited the Child Development Support Corporation, where every Thursday morning clients harvest lettuce, bok choy, and collard greens that help feed hundreds of families.
Right now the greens are all grown hydroponically indoors, but the farm has plans to expand, adding a rooftop garden with cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers. It will also be offering hydroponics workshops and cooking demos. The idea’s spreading to other social service agencies in the city, too. Providing basic fresh veggies isn’t too complicated; staffers simply hadn’t considered it before. It was news to Los Sures pantry manager Robin Sirota that the windowless basement housing the South 3rd St. pantry was a suitable setting for growing salad greens. Turns out the two are not mutually exclusive. U-Farm, une ferme en milieu urbain.
Farms sprout in cities. Farming in the city is already happening on the small scale. The Science Barge in New York City, shown here, grows tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers and other crops in greenhouses. Energy comes from solar panels, windmills and a generator that runs on bio When you hear the word “farm,” chances are you picture rolling hills in the country covered with cows and cornstalks. But some scientists, engineers and city planners say the farms of the future could rise straight into the air — in skyscrapers in the world’s most populated cities. It might sound far-fetched, but in fact, some of the technology for growing crops indoors already exists.
Those in the know say bringing farming indoors solves a number of problems. Cities that grow their own food also would become more self-reliant, and less vulnerable to catastrophes such as hurricanes that can make it impossible for trucks to deliver fresh produce to grocery stores. It can be tricky to regulate climate conditions indoors, he says. Singapore’s Vertical Farms. Land is a luxury that Singaporeans cannot afford. An island country of only 710 square km is already home to 5 million people.
No wonder, Singapore’s skyline is thick with skyscrapers. In this high-density urbanized island, where 93 percent of food is imported, the notion of farming seems not only crazy but downright implausible. Yet, an ambitious entrepreneur says he can produce five times as many vegetables as a regular farm does right in the heart of Singapore’s thickly populated central business district. Jack Ng’s technology is called "A-Go-Gro," and it looks like a 30-foot tall Ferris wheel for plants. The whole system has a footprint of only about 60 square feet, or the size of an average bathroom.
Ng sells his produce under the name SkyGreens in grocery stores, providing consumers an alternative to imported products. Sky Greens venture is supported by the Singaporean government as it will allows the island to become more self-sufficient as a food source. LA Half-Way House Starts Vertical Farm. LA Half-Way House Starts Vertical Farm Since moving into the Los Angles half-way house two years ago, residents of the Rainbow Apartments have been devising a plan to start their own urban garden. After a few trials and errors, the novice gardeners have now succeeded in creating a 34-foot-long plot bursting with strawberries, tomatoes, basil and other herbs and vegetables, which grow vertically against their cinder block building.
In addition to providing them with fresh, nutritious food, the residents have found that the garden has given them a way to connect with each other and build a supportive community. As Cara Mia DiMassa of the Los Angeles Times reports: Many residents were surprised by the way gardening united them, in an area where it sometimes seems best to mind your own business and keep to yourself. "It brings us together as a group, kind of like therapy, to see something growing and flourishing," Jannie Burrows said. Photo credit: Allen J. This is great. That's funny, Jonas.