City of the Future at ArTect.net - Design & Architecture in Media
One of two Runner-ups, Fougeron Architecture was the recipient of the Infinity Innovative Design Award with their proposal of a city plan incorporating two hundred forty story agricultural towers (see above). The towers are based on “schemes by Columbia University microbiology Professor Dickson Despommier to grow food in specialized towers he calls “vertical farms“. Hydroponic farms “bountiful enough to feed ten million people. They’d use solar energy and recirculated water.” A concept that draws some parallels to Madrid’s planned Air Tree structure.
ArTect.net - Design & Architecture in Media
The notion of cities condensed into a singular structure or hyperstructure, has frequented works of fiction as far back as 1899 with H.G. Wells
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