This project is a competition I enroled in with Studio Micotti.

 

In the latest five years a new theme had shown itself on the world-wide architectural stage: the Vertical Farm.

Its reasons are deeply radicated in the new way of thinking cities, societies and, most of all, nutrition all gathered in the special contemporary way in which world is changing; reasons due to the overpopulation of the urban areas and the urge to support all of the inhabitants. In our project we thought, first of all, to give a specific and realistic idea of this new tall-building concept, in order to demonstrate that this kind of "machines" can really work, and they can do it now; concept, relations, fluxes, functions and systems cohabitates in our project. We thought to design a group of simple areas that can sinergically work together as a flat, a cultivation tower, a vertical public garden, marketplaces and food services creating a new connection beetween Highline Park and New York City; this connection exist in different directions: horizontally from the Park to the City and vertically from a park to another. The main area, the vertical garden, is based on the same technologies used inside the cultivation tower, the south one, in which the modern systems of hidroponic and aeroponic cultivations are located in a sort of "vertically multiplied glass house", to maximize the solar gains, while the entire compound send its own biological waste to the top, to be digested and converted in biogas, burnt to produce both electrical and heating power. A particular public/semipublic area in which everything, every inhabitant, every plant and every visitor can give its own support to the general system functions.