Vertical Farming Lauren Williamson
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Vertical farming proposes growing crops in tall, vertically stacked buildings to address issues of land use, transportation costs, and environmental impacts. Proponents argue it could reduce the need for deforestation by producing food in cities. Research examines architectural designs for vertical farms that aim to conserve water and energy through recycling and renewable resources. However, critics note high initial costs and challenges with waste management.
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Cities today are constantly under pressure to accommodate a growing urban population and their increasing demand for various resources, such as energy, water, waste management, transportation, and food. Some of these resources are basic living requirements, and the most important of those being food. According to the current practices, food demand is mostly met by food grown on farmland away from the cities. This creates a bigger carbon footprint due to transportation, farming energy usage as well as environmental damage through agricultural contaminants, etc. Additionally, traditional farming often encounters climate extremes and disasters making it more difficult for farmers to survive. Hence there is a need to explore alternative techniques which can address issues concerned with traditional farming practices, one of such techniques is vertical farming. It is essentially a combination of variety of technologies, placed in an urban setting to help reduce most of the issues related to urban food demands and be environmentally less damaging at the same time.
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sustainability. The walls, for example, are constructed of
used automobile tires that otherwise would have ended up
in landfills. The recycled tires are packed with dirt from the
construction site, using a local resource. They’re laid on top
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Increasing problems of climate change, rising temperature, global warming and increasing carbon footprints, can be largely attributed to the manner in which built environment is being planned, designed, constructed and created .
Considering the role, relevance and importance, buildings need to be made more environmentally sustainable; economically vibrant/ productive and physically better place to live and work.
Making built environment more productive, sustainable and inclusive, calls for looking into and exploring the innovative options of; Rationalizing and redefining the process of planning, designing, constructing and maintaining the buildings; Making built environment energy/resource efficient and environment friendly; mitigating heat island, making buildings safe against natural and manmade disasters. In order to make building supportive of environment and ecology ;buildings have to be made sustainable, smart and intelligent, so that agenda to make buildings vibrant and least consumer of energy/resources /generator of waste.
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1. The document discusses green technology and its importance in addressing issues like global warming.
2. It defines green technology as technology that is environmentally friendly and developed to conserve natural resources without disturbing the environment.
3. The goals of green technology discussed are to reduce waste, fuel consumption, and resource usage while increasing recycling, renewable energy adoption, and developing a sense of environmental responsibility.
Green technology
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2. It defines green technology as technology that is environmentally friendly and developed to conserve natural resources without disturbing the environment.
3. The goals of green technology discussed are to reduce waste, fuel consumption, and resource usage while increasing recycling, renewable energy adoption, and developing a sense of environmental responsibility.
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- 1. Vertical Farming Examining the Research Design behind the question, Will the conceptual ideas of vertical farms become infrastructure in our future? Presented by: Lauren Williamson ENGL 302
- 3. Proposed Advantages of Vertical Farming Figure 2: Dr. Despommier (2004). Flow diagram of NYC before and after instituting vertical farms.
- 4. Dr. Despommier: Founder of Vertical Farms Claims vertical farms address the following: -Less land use -Reduction in global warming through less deforestation -Chemicals from fertilizers will be unnecessary -Topsoil nutrients and erosion will not be impacted -The vertical farm infrastructure will allow for recycling of water and more efficient energy use Research: “ The Vertical Farm.” EcoEng Newsletter . June 2004. No. 9. < http://www.iees.ch/EcoEng041/EcoEng041_verticalFarm.html >.
- 5. Architectual Case Studies Research: The Vertical Farm Project . 2009. < http://www.verticalfarm.com/designs.html>.
- 6. Eco-Laboratory. Weber-Thompson Seattle, Washington Concept
- 7. Analysis of the company’s support of the research’s question, with focus on the impacts of environment, society, and cost: Energy: While conserving energy through infrastructure design and decreasing energy costs, the vertical farm will also implement renewable sources of energy, decreasing reliance on coal-burning plants. Water: Collection and recycling of of water will be done in a sustainable and mindful practice. Aesthetics: As a societal impact, Weber Thompson supports the infrastructure design as jointly visually pleasing and functional in energy conservation. Eco-Laboratory. Weber-Thompson
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- 10. "The Living Tower" by SOA Architects Paris, France Concept
- 11. "The Living Tower" by SOA Architects This company sees the advantages behind their design as being: -healthier produce (no insects or need for pesticides) -regulation of climate (more reliable production of produce) -use of renewable energies as power -no reliance on coal
- 12. Examining the Research Question: The Plausibility of Vertical Farms … with respect to waste management practices, the ecology of a city, and other societal impacts (a summary of ideas for research) Displacement of agricultural societies, potential loss or displacement of traditional farming jobs. Healthier produce and “urban” farming jobs N/a Less deforestation and land use, which means less erosion and less flooding Initial costs of designs and renewable energy is often unattractive to developers. Less CO2 emissions and pollution by decreasing reliance on coal-burning power plants and transportation, and implementing renewable-sources of energy. “ Blackwater,” or the wastewater and sludge from soils, from the vertical farms needs an additional costly filtration system in order to be recycled and conservative of the water resources. Water can be used more efficiently in a vertical farm Disadvantages Advantages