Water Vapor – Water Harvesting Facility in the Desert by Sangwook Park, Sinjeong Lee, Hoyoung Lee & Hyeonju Jo. The Water Vapor Project This year’s IIDA has some pretty interesting entries.
For example the Water Vapor Project is an attempt to hydrate the parched desert landscape of Africa. It proposes to build an environment where greenery thrives thanks to the basic principles of water vapor. Hat tip Designboom! Designers: Sangwook Park, Sinjeong Lee, Hoyoung Lee & Hyeonju Jo. How Big a Backyard Do You Need to Live Off of the Land? The Future of Farming: Reaching for the Sky (and down in the basement) When you think of a farm your mind may invoke images of rolling fields, tractors and perhaps a cow or two.
But in the future – not so! Farms are movin’ from the country and into your nearest metropolis faster than you might think. Due to unpredictable weather patterns that destroy millions of tons of crops each year and a growing human population set to peak at about 9 billion, some future-focused innovators are looking for better ways to keep food on the table. Vertical Farming - Vertical Farms. The Sundance-winning documentary Fuel ends with a hopeful artist's rendering of the city of the near future, a clean, green metropolis that produces its own power by the wind and sun, and feeds itself from transparent skyscrapers that are planted up and down with hydroponic vegetables.
Such vertical farms have captivated designers and gained wide traction on the Internet (here's one new innovative concept). They may seem the stuff of science fiction, but one of the pioneers of the concept, Dickson Despommier of Columbia University, told The Daily Green that we can expect to see the first built vertical farm "within a year. "