adaptive infrastructure (2016)

The project adaptive infrastructrue proposes a possible solution for the rising sea level and it‘s consequences. As a result of global warming the poles are melting and that inceases the water level of the oceans. On the one hand this causes a loss of land masses and threatens cities to drawn. On the other hand world population is growing, espacially in metropolian areas. Many of this cities are close to open water, therefore the urban habitat of many people is endagered by sea level rise. In addition farm land is going to be flooded, land we need to produce food to save mankind from starving. This project combines two approaches to one concept. A floating vertical farm that people can live on as an urban extension to dence cities.

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urban farming

The concept of vertical farming is a widely distributed idea to make food production more efficient. In Europe a person needs approximately 2000m² of farm land per year to survive. With vertical farming the average area per person drops to 500m² per year, due to the more efficient harvesting cycles. In addition it is possible to stack the fields of plants. Usually verticals farms are combined with an aquaponic system, what allows to use the excreta from a fishfarm nearby as nutrients for the plants. In our project we use the body of a floating construction to install such a farm. Therefore the it is surrounded by water and fish that we can use for our aquaponic system. On top of the vertical farm a city can grow. This makes our food production an element of our urban infrastructure like we already have it today with water pipelines. In result fresh food is as easy to get as drinking water from the tap. The only thing you have to do is to press a button and a robots harvests your food and deliveres it to your home. This is not only very comfortable it also reduces waste in food production.