Hello all,
Please respond to the following prompt via the comment section by Sunday at 8pm. These count towards your studio grade and are meant to help you develop a polemic for the second half of the semester!
BLOG EXERCISE 3
Post 1: In response to the in-class reading, What will you farm? What scale? What delivery method? (1 paragraph polemic)
Post 2: Save your (4) Boston Urban Ag sites map file to the UA MAP Dropbox using the following convention: ua_lastname.ai. The instructors will compile the map next week!
Post 2: Save your (4) Boston Urban Ag sites map file to the UA MAP Dropbox using the following convention: ua_lastname.ai. The instructors will compile the map next week!
I'm interested in designing green roofs that use, rainwater runoff and recycled wastewater in conjunction with aspects of hydroponic farming to create a complete biological farming system. We use green roofs to collect water, and to grow food, why can't we introduce some of the aspects of hydroponics to increase the amount of nutrients in the water while farming fish for consumption? Our buildings could actually be designed as complete biological systems that would produce enough food to be self sustaining. It may even be possible to harness energy in a system like this to create a completely self sufficient building.
ReplyDeleteDefining a different kind of skyscraper to house birds and vegetation
ReplyDeleteI want to farm birds in skyscrapers. The plan is to use an open web-like high rise structure to house birds in a city. Each floor has initially provided with a few vegetation such as pincherries, wild plums and other fast growing native trees and water to start attracting birds to inhibit the space. After time has passed, these plants can spring up and grow on their own. By housing birds, the skyscraper has become an inhabitable place for other useful microorganism which will be helpful for bringing ecosystem back to the city.
Lauren's in-class example of an aloe farm within a burn clinic was really intriguing. I think the aquaponics, in its current form, would be really fun to set up and work with at home, but the food component is less interesting to me. I'm more interested in farming as it relates to energy. I really like the moss-light example if farming is seen as growing. But if farming can be about collecting, then wind farms, or tidal, or something might be intriguing. I have always been interested in the idea of a self-sustaining ecosystem on a small scale, so exploring a greenhouse idea that combines multiple energy sources to help sustain an aquaponic idea is potentially the direction I'd like to go.
ReplyDeleteIncorporating farming into high rise building with climate similar to Boston, MA.
ReplyDeleteI would have 2 different types of green space/garden incorporated into hight rise building. For the first type I would like to add small gardens for each of the apartments. The garden I am imagining of would serve like a balcony to residents. Size of the individual garden would be around 15'x15' inclosed balcony, where large windows/roof can be made out glass for green house effect to consume sun heat. This type of design would benefit people who would like to grow their vegetables.
Another type of design I imagine is a larger scale garden, which will serve as a park space where residence of the building can go to relax, walk around and gather their fruits and vegetables at the same time. At that garden farmers will grow goods for the citizens and sell them at the same spot. This garden can have some open areas to outside where birds can fly in and out. I'm think it would look something like a mall, maybe in half is size mall, just in stead of stores, farmers will have different growing goods.